Installing Drupal 6
This tutorial covers the installation of Drupal 6.
The video goes through each of the steps needed to properly setup Drupal including downloading, database set up and running the installation script. It also covers some common roadblocks and how to deal with them.
Please note that in 6.3 the way the settings.php file is created has been changed from what is shown in the video. It is no longer automatic and you now need to manually create the settings.php file before continuing with installation.
Written and recorded by: Addison Berry of Lullabot
Watch the video (12 minutes, 38.5 MB in mp4 format):
http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/drupal/files/videocasts/Install-D6.mp4
mysql database privs in video not consitent with install text
The video is helpful. However, I found that the video sets the database privs to everything (via phpMyAdmin)... Compare this with what is in the INSTALL.mysql.txt (Drupal 6.3 install)
GRANT SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE, CREATE, DROP, INDEX, ALTER
ON databasename.*
TO 'username'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'password';
which is a reduced set of privs. What is good set of privs for the drupal database?
Thanks,
John Blue
Doesn't the search module
Doesn't the search module require the CREATE TEMPORARY TABLES priv too?
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