WAMP and Drupal - Installation

Now lets start with the WAMP installation.

Installing WAMP is a child's play. Just do a couple of nexts in the installation wizard and ure on.

Setting up drupal

1. After you download drupal form drupal.org, unzip the file and rename the folder as drupal. After this, paste this folder in C:\wamp\www. ( Assuming your WAMP resides in C:\)

2.Now go to C:\wamp\www\drupal\sites\default and rename the file default.settings.php as settings.php.

3. Now start your wamp by double clicking. The WAMP icon appears at the place where you see the time on Windows XP.

4. Click on WAMP and click on phpMyAdmin.

5. Now on http://localhost/phpmyadmin/ page in your browser, give a database name and click on create.

6. Now type http://localhost/ on the address bar of your browser and just so a couple of next. After performing all the steps, you have drupal installed on your computer.

Ill write more about using drupal in my next post.