Installing Drupal on Your Local Computer
Installing Drupal
Next, we need to install Drupal. Visit the Drupal download site at: http://drupal.org/project/drupal . These are the official Drupal Core files which come bundled with a variety of modules and themes to give you a good starting point in helping build your site. On the other hand, though there is a good variety of functionally to begin a site, the total size of the core files is relatively small (only about 1 MB compressed). Next, unzip the files to a folder created during your earlier WAMP installation called “C:\wamp\www\”. After your files are extracted, rename the folder entitled ‘drupal‐6.17’ (number indicates the version of Drupal, yours might be different) to simply ‘drupal’ (minus the quotations again). Note that your folder and the database you created earlier must have the same name.Next, within your new drupal folder, navigate to a file named ‘default.settings.php’ at the following location: C:\wamp\www\drupal\sites\default\. Make a copy of this file within this same subfolder location (i.e. ‘default’) and rename it ‘settings.php’.
Next, type http://localhost/drupal/ in your browser to begin the Drupal installation process by clicking the ‘Install Drupal’ link.
