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In this guide, you’ll learn how to set up Drupal on your local WAMP server. Drupal is a free software package that allows an individual or a community of users to easily publish, manage and organize a wide variety of content on a website. Tens of thousands of people and organizations are using Drupal to power scores of different web sites, including:

  • Community web portals
  • Discussion sites
  • Corporate web sites
  • Intranet applications
  • Personal web sites or blogs
  • Aficionado sites
  • E-commerce applications
  • Resource directories
  • Social Networking sites

This guide is part of the Turning Your Computer into a Local Web Server series. Learn more from the main page.

Installing Drupal on Your Local WAMP Server

To install Drupal on WAMP, do the following:

  1. Download the latest version of Drupal here
  2. Extract the zip file and copy the drupal directory to C:\wamp\www
  3. Give the directory a meaningful name

    drupal01 Install Drupal on Your Local Windows Installation

  4. Now go to http://localhost/. Under Your Aliases, click on phpmyadmin

    drupal02 Install Drupal on Your Local Windows Installation

  5. When phpMyAdmin loads, click on Databases. Under Create a new database, type in a database name and click Create

    drupal03 Install Drupal on Your Local Windows Installation
  6. You will receive confirmation that the database creation is successful

    drupal04 Install Drupal on Your Local Windows Installation

  7. Go to C:\wamp\www\[your directory]\sites\default
  8. Copy default.settings.php and rename the copy to settings.php

    drupal05 Install Drupal on Your Local Windows Installation

    drupal06 Install Drupal on Your Local Windows Installation

  9. Go to http://localhost/[your_directory_name]. You will see the Drupal installation screen.
  10. Choose Install Drupal in English

    drupal07 Install Drupal on Your Local Windows Installation

  11. If, you see the following error, make sure the file is correctly named “settings.php” and that you are in the C:\wamp\www\[your directory]\sites\default directory

    drupal08 Install Drupal on Your Local Windows Installation

  12. Enter your database name from earlier and enter the username as root. You will not need a password as you’ve not selected one yet.

    drupal09 Install Drupal on Your Local Windows Installation

  13. Configure your site’s settings as desired.

    drupal10 Install Drupal on Your Local Windows Installation

  14. Installation of Drupal is now complete and you can now log in.

    drupal11 Install Drupal on Your Local Windows Installation

Now you’ve learned how to install Drupal on your Windows machine, you may now add LDAP integration in ten minutes or less.



 Install Drupal on Your Local Windows Installation

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  • Ganbca2003

    Hi,

    When i install drupal, after datebase configuration no action in my drupal page. It just show databse configuration page again. What i do? any one help me

  • http://richr.org/ Rich

    Hi someguy. Please re-read step 12: “Enter your database name from earlier and enter the username as root. You will not need a password as you’ve not selected one yet.”

  • Breitbauer

    Nr 9 doesnt work !!

    • Breitbauer

      ok i got it, but now, i recieved this failure at nr. 12/13

      An AJAX HTTP error occurred. HTTP Result Code: 200 Debugging information follows. Path: StatusText: OK ResponseText: Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 30 seconds exceeded in C:wampwwwdrupal-7.0-rc3includesdatabasedatabase.inc on line 2039

  • Rumesh Parera

    Hi,

    I was reading your article and I would like to appreciate you for making it very simple and understandable. This article gives me a basic idea of How to install drupal on windows and it will help me a lot. There are some good articles too which I was found over internet related to this topic, it also explained very well. Link of that posts is…
    http://www.mindstick.com/Articles/f59fde79-29da-4267-9945-9316381c7173/?How%20to%20install%20Drupal%20on%20Windows

    http://drupal.org/documentation/install/windows

    http://www.slideshare.net/a_rupeshkumar/installation-of-drupal-on-windows-xp-with-xampp-presentation

    Thank you very much everyone!


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