Installing Drupal on Windows

#Drupal #Windows #InstallGuide

Full steps can be found at https://i12bretro.github.io/tutorials/0271.html

   01. Download XAMPP  https://sourceforge.net/projects/xampp/files/XAMPP%20Windows/    02. Download Drupal  https://www.drupal.org/download-latest/zip    03. Download Microsoft Visual C++  https://aka.ms/vs/16/release/vc_redist.x64.exe    04. Install Microsoft Visual C++    05. Right click the downloaded XAMPP file ≫ Extract All...    06. Right click the downloaded Drupal .zip file ≫ Extract All...    07. Rename the extracte Drupal folder drupal    08. Cut the drupal folder inside the XAMPP/htdocs directory    09. Copy the extracted XAMPP directory to a safe location to run from, C:\Program Files for example    10. Run XAMPP/setup_xampp.bat to update the configuration files with the new server location    11. Run XAMPP/xampp-control.exe    12. Click the Start button next to Apache and MySQL    13. Navigate to XAMPP/mysql/bin    14. Hold the SHIFT key and right click in the white space ≫ Open PowerShell windows here...    15. Type the following in the PowerShell window to setup the Drupal database          ./mysql -u root          CREATE DATABASE drupal DEFAULT CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_unicode_ci;          GRANT ALL ON drupal.* TO 'drupal_rw'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'Dru4@l!!';          FLUSH PRIVILEGES;          EXIT;          exit    16. Open a web browser and navigate to http://DNSorIP/drupal    17. The Drupal setup screen should be displayed    18. Select a language ≫ Click Save and continue    19. Select the Standard profile ≫ Click Save and continue    20. Enter the database name, username and password ≫ Click Save and continue    21. Create a site title and Drupal login ≫ Click Install Drupal    22. When the installation completes, enter a site name, email address, username and password ≫ Click Save and continue    23. Welcome to your very own, self-hosted Drupal installation  

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