How to Install drupal in localhost
Posted by Joys of Programming on in PHP
Drupal is one of the best content management software for web site development. But you can install drupal in your local machines and test its working. To see how it works, follow the steps given below.
- You must have mysql,php and apache installed in your machine.
- Create a database for drupal usage in mysql
- Download drupal.
- If it is a drupal-x.x.tar.gz file, run the following command (Note that x.x corresponds to the version number)
$ tar -xzf drupal-x.x.tar.gz
- Rename drupal-x.x to drupal
$ mv drupal-x.x drupal
- Now find out the root directory of your Apache. The value will be present in httpd.conf
DocumentRoot "/usr/local/apache2/htdocs"
- Now copy the drupal directory to the Document Root directory
$ sudo cp -r drupal /usr/local/apache2/htdocs
- Now start apache
$ sudo apachectl start
- Enter in your browser the following address “http://localhost/drupal”
- If everything is fine, you will see a guided menu to install drupal in your machine.
- Enter the database name, username and password for the database created.
You may have to change certain file permissions during the installation. Installing drupal locally is very useful for experimenting with drupal features
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