Assuming that you want to build a siteA logically grouped set of content - also web site. on your PC (with Windows), I suggest a visit to DeveloperSide.net to download their package. Hey - there's no need to re-invent the wheel!

This package has already integrated the following things:

• Apache 2.2 HTTP Server
• MySQLAn implementation of a relational database using the standardized SQL. 5.0 DatabaseA collection of data related to an application.
• PHPRecursive acronym for "PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor" - is a widely-used Open Source general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for Web development and can be embedded into HTML. 5.2 and Perl 5.8 Scripting Languages
• GUI WAMP-stack Controller
• Dynamic DNS Client
• Tomcat Servlet/JSP Container
• mod_aspdotnet ASP.NET Host Interface
• OpenSSL Cryptography Toolkit
• mod_security Web Application Firewall
• phpMyAdmin MySQLAn implementation of a relational database using the standardized SQL. Administration
• Joomla
• Drupal

  Drupal

  An open-source content management system that is used on this site and is taking over the world.
• WordPress
• MediaWiki
• phpBB

Don't ask me what all of those mean, because I have no idea. Did I need them all? I doubt it. But disk space is cheap, and the key thing I looked at was that it had Drupal

Drupal

An open-source content management system that is used on this site and is taking over the world. 5.0 (the latest release) integrated.

I followed their instructions, which built me a working system! Yay! I don't remember if it was automatic or not, but you will find it useful to have the "Web-Developer Controller" icon on your desk top.

The only "fly in the ointment" was that when I went to the Drupal

Drupal

An open-source content management system that is used on this site and is taking over the world. web siteA logically grouped set of content - also web site. to start pulling my modules and themes, there was a big announcement on the front page saying that 5.1 had been released and was highly recommended.

What's a girl to do? Do I stick with 5.0 any way, or try to update it to 5.1?

Well, in for a penny, in for a pound. I downloaded 5.1. I then unzipped it (using WinZip).

Of course, that created a directory called "Drupal

Drupal

An open-source content management system that is used on this site and is taking over the world.-5.1," but the other software I had installed was looking for a directory called "Drupal

Drupal

An open-source content management system that is used on this site and is taking over the world.." Well, by getting Apache and its services shut down, I managed to rename the two directories so that 5.1 was now called "Drupal

Drupal

An open-source content management system that is used on this site and is taking over the world.." It worked! I now had a running 5.1 system!

And it was all fairly painless and straight-forward. [Well, you know the plot will thicken, don't you?] But at least I'm not as afraid to install a new release of Drupal

Drupal

An open-source content management system that is used on this site and is taking over the world. any more.