- Getting Started
- Basic Configuration
- Creating Multiple Sites On Your Local Computer
- Error Pages
- Accessing Your Test Site(s)
- Adding Modules and Themes
- Creating Content
- Custom Blocks
- Working with the Menu
- The Contact Form
- URL Aliases
- Moving Entire Drupal Site with Databases
- Moving Stuff to Your Web Site
- Setting Up Cron
- Additional Tips and Tricks
- Categories (Taxonomy)
- Common Problems
- Links and IMG
- Keeping Your Local and Remote Sites Synchronized
- More Reading
- Glossary
Getting Started
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 DrupalDrupal
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 DrupalDrupal
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 "DrupalDrupal
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 "DrupalDrupal
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 "DrupalDrupal
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 DrupalDrupal
An open-source content management system that is used on this site and is taking over the world. any more.



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