Installing Drupal on Windows
0#Drupal #Windows #InstallGuide
Full steps can be found at https://i12bretro.github.io/tutorials/0271.html
01. Download XAMPP https://sourceforge.net/projects/xampp/files/XAMPP%20Windows/
02. Download Drupal https://www.drupal.org/download-latest/zip
03. Download Microsoft Visual C++ https://aka.ms/vs/16/release/vc_redist.x64.exe
04. Install Microsoft Visual C++
05. Right click the downloaded XAMPP file ≫ Extract All...
06. Right click the downloaded Drupal .zip file ≫ Extract All...
07. Rename the extracte Drupal folder drupal
08. Cut the drupal folder inside the XAMPP/htdocs directory
09. Copy the extracted XAMPP directory to a safe location to run from, C:\Program Files for example
10. Run XAMPP/setup_xampp.bat to update the configuration files with the new server location
11. Run XAMPP/xampp-control.exe
12. Click the Start button next to Apache and MySQL
13. Navigate to XAMPP/mysql/bin
14. Hold the SHIFT key and right click in the white space ≫ Open PowerShell windows here...
15. Type the following in the PowerShell window to setup the Drupal database
./mysql -u root
CREATE DATABASE drupal DEFAULT CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_unicode_ci;
GRANT ALL ON drupal.* TO 'drupal_rw'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'Dru4@l!!';
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
EXIT;
exit
16. Open a web browser and navigate to http://DNSorIP/drupal
17. The Drupal setup screen should be displayed
18. Select a language ≫ Click Save and continue
19. Select the Standard profile ≫ Click Save and continue
20. Enter the database name, username and password ≫ Click Save and continue
21. Create a site title and Drupal login ≫ Click Install Drupal
22. When the installation completes, enter a site name, email address, username and password ≫ Click Save and continue
23. Welcome to your very own, self-hosted Drupal installation
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