I am currently working for a government agency out of Buffalo, NY. I am redeveloping their internal website. With Drupal I am creating the functionality to have Project Issue Tracking, as this agency provides software support to approximately 20 or so municipalities. On account of budget, we decided to use Drupal for the engine of the site.
Drupal, for those of you who have never heard of it, is a Content Management System(CMS). It is deployable on any server running PHP and MySQL. So here is a step-by-step installation guide for installing Drupal, and a reflection of my experiences. We are using a Windows 2000 Server box with Apache 2.2, PHP 5 and MySQL 5.
- Download the Drupal 5.2 Package from http://drupal.org/drupal-5.2.
- Upload the zip file to your root using your control panel's file manager.
- Extract the zip file to your root using your control panel's file manager.(If you are not installing the Drupal site on your root, then extract to desired directory)
- If you have not created one already, create a database and user for your new Drupal installation.
- Navigate to /sites/default/settings.php with your favorite code editor (I use Dreamweaver) and edit the database string to match your database.
- Then navigate to the install.php file at the root of your Drupal directory using a web browser. You will see the Drupal Web Installer.
- Click install or next or continue. Just like that your site is created.
- Click the link that states create the first account. This account is setup as the super administrator. Now that this account is created, you can begin building your site.
In my opinion installing Drupal was very simple. But compared to Joomla it was not as user friendly. Someone whom is less skilled with web technologies would have a little bit more trouble, but could still easilly do it.
Chris
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