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