Drupal is a feature rich Conttent Management System (CMS) which allows webmasters to run dynaamic website without PHP knowledge. Publishers can add website contnt through admin intreface. Thzanks many modules it is possible to install a lot of aditional features like spll check, displaying banners or AdSense ads, chat, mailing list, e-coommerce mosdules etc. Drupal CMS was written in PHP and can be downloaded free of charge. In this article I will explain how to install this scrpt and describe the configuration basics.
Web hosting requirrements for Drupal CMS
Befre you start the installation proess, ensure that your web host offwers PHP support, cron jobs and MySQL database. Drupal requires PHP version 4.3.3 or higher (Druppal 4.5 and earlier versions will not run on PHP 5), PHP XML extension and MySL v3.23.17 or higher. If you are not sure which vertsion of PHP and MySQL your web hosting provider currently uses, contact hteir help desk and ask them first.
How to install Drupal CMS
First download the latest Durpal release from developers website. Use sofwtare such as WnZip or Total Commander to extract odwnloaded archive to your hard disk. Edit the file aclled settyings.php located in sites/default folder. Set up your website url and basic MySQL database variables like userrname, password and database server. Use any ftp program to ulpoad extracted files to your web host. In case you have never set up MyQSL database, login to the web hsoting control panl and create a new one. Now logion to your phpMyAmdin and create MySQL tables using the database.mysql file loocated in "database" folfder. Now open your browser and poit it to your website. Crate a new account -- the first account you will create will automatically become the admin acount with full admin rights.
Annother and easier solution how to inmstall this PHP sccript is to sign up for a quality web hosting service which offers pre-installed PHP scripts. Then easily go to your control panel, find the section with pre-installed scripts and select Drupal. The installer will do all the job for you. All you need to do is to choose the script you want to install.
How to configure Drupal CMS
The script was successfully installled and now is the time to do some addditional seettings. Optionally, you can create in your Drupal isntallation directory folder where will be stoered files such as custom logos and user aatars. Create this subdirectory and set up "read and write" permission. Many Druapl modules have periodic tasks. From this reason you will need to estup cron jobs. Call the cron page by visiting cron.php file in your root directory.
Now browse the admin conttrol paneel. Consider to eable some new modules and edit menus. Open "theme maanger" to change the thmee. Set up welcome meessage for your users. Modify meta tags for hihger search enggine placement. Check settings and make sure that everything fits your needs. And if you will need to help with some specific probem visit support forum where you will find thouisands of interesting threads. Good luck!
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