By plcarpenter on

I have spent the last several days trying to install Drupal with nothing but errors...including Acquia Desktop Dev, Windows Webmatrix, as well as all the tutorials I could find, like WAMP, etc. I got nothing but errors from all these methods.

Somebody posted about Bitnami, and it worked the very first time! I am SO happy.

Here is the link for downloading: https://bitnami.com/stack/drupal

⋅ Categories: Drupal 7.x

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kentek314 commented

I am with you 100% on the Bitnami install. But here is my issue-
Bitnami (and possibly Drupal 8.nn does not seem to follow the out of the box Drupal install file structure at least not the way it was setup in Drupal 7.xx.

The out of the box for Drupal 8.04 is like this:
(I am installed on a Windows box)
C:/ XAMPP
\Drupal\htdocs\sites\default\files then various folders for css, images, libraries
It is the same for Drupal 8.05

Drupal 7 looks like this:
www/drupal/sites/ALL
then folders for /libraries
/modules
/themes
/images
and others/

My problem is that I don't know exactly how to proceed under the sites/default etc.
Does /default/ work just like sites/ALL?
Some of the modules have separate plug-ins (ColorBox) that go in the /libraries (with an 's')
Can I just create a 'libraries folder under sites/default/files/ or is ColorBox looking for one in
sites/ALL/libraries?

Finally, is there a module that will show where everything is and where it should be.

How does one figure out where the files should be and/or where they are vis-a-vis xModule?