Drupal- Installing Drupal for a Web Site

Drupal: Installing Drupal for a Web Site

Last updated: 6/29/2002; 9:31:31 AM

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Drupal: Installing Drupal for a Web Site

I've written positively about Drupal for quite a while now. But I haven't done a lot to document it (I have cleaned up the English on several of the source modules although not as many as I wanted to). This document lays out how to configure Drupal for a single website. It assumes the following:

*nix
Apache
The website is a named user under Unix that matches the name of the domain i.e. if the domain of the Drupal site is www.scottsweblog.com then the Unix user name is scottsweblog.com
All content is in a /htdocs/ directory below /home/username/
Drupal itself is installed into a drupal subdirectory below /home/username/htdocs/ or /home/username/htdocs/drupal/

Please note that these restrictions are how I chose to configure this installation. These aren't Drupal requirements – Drupal is a supremely flexible system.

Step 1: Read This

http://www.drupal.org/node.php?id=320

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