Getting Started with Drupal Class Notes

Presented by Joe Moraca Saturday, May 17, 2008
Florida Drupal Users Group -- Orlando

at the very nice offices of MindComet
385 Pearl Lake Causeway
Altamonte Springs, FL 32714

What do you need to install Drupal

Drupal runs on the L/W/M AMP stack I run on my local windows laptop and have my sites hosted on a Linux server.

How do you get this setup on your local computer?

Windows: I use ApacheFriends http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp-windows.html there is also
Mac OS X MAMP http://www.mamp.info/en/mamp.html
Linux -- if you are using Linux just figure it out ... http://howtoforge.com/ubuntu_lamp_for_newbies

Tools to do stuff:

PHPMYADMIN http://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/index.php to create the database (depends on your host)

7-zip to "unzip" the files on windows http://www.7-zip.org/
Gzip for MAC or Linux http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/man1/...

Move files to a "production server" using FTP

windows WhizFTP http://www.download.com/Whiz-FTP/3000-2160_4-10614288.html
MAC OS X http://cyberduck.ch/ ?
Linux sudo apt-get install gftp

so we have the tools ...

so download drupal, some modules and a couple of themes from http://drupal.org/

unzip drupal in your document root -- htdocs

create a database using your favorite tool

Basic Configuration of a site

http://drupal.org/getting-started/6

Site Recipes -- what type of site do you want to build

http://drupal.org/handbook/site-recipes with videos and screencasts!!

Basic Setup

Intro to the "Admin Section"
Create Content
Menus

Move your test site to a production server

Discussion of favorite modules