URL for installing Drupal

Question

I am trying to install Drupal using this manual.

I am stuck at the following step:

Open your browser and navigate to your Drupal file path, you will see the first Drupal installer screen as shown in the following image. In our case the path is localhost/< Your_drupal_folder >. Select the Standard option and click Save and continue.

I downloaded the Drupal folder:

Now I copy and paste the path to Drupal folder into Chrome, and nothing happens, I am not presented with the installation window:

What am I missing here? Thank you.

Answer 1

For installation of Drupal on you local machine, you'll have to install local webserver on your system i.e. XAMPP. You can download it here i.e. https://www.apachefriends.org/download.html

Follow these steps :

Step 1 : Start XAMPP control Panel

Once, you'll install this. you'll get a control panel of XAMPP software and start two modules i.e. Apache & MySql. For reference, please check this screen shot i.e.

Step 2 : Place your Drupal Setup in Xampp

You'll get a xampp folder in you C drive. Now, you have to place your extracted drupal setup in htdocs folder at this path i.e. C:\xampp\htdocs and rename folder with drupaltest.

For reference, please check this screen shot i.e.

Step 3 : Create Database

Now, we have to create DB in PHPmyadmin i.e. http://localhost/phpmyadmin Default credentials of PHPMYADMIN are username : root & Password : EMPTY/NOTHING

Step 4 : Run Drupal

Now you have to run Drupal at this path i.e. http://localhost/drupaltest Follow this link i.e. https://www.drupal.org/docs/user_guide/en/install-run.html

For more technical articles, have a look at http://etutorialz.com

Now, your drupal site is ready.