Installing Drupal

Hello, I was wondering do you need to download XAMPP before you download/install Drupal 7?

I have a 2008 MacBook Pro
Running on Mavericks OS X

OK we have a site that is being hosted and I have been asked to move this to our Dedicated Server on Rackspace
I have a fresh install of Drupal & Xampp and then I have imported my SQl - that worked fine - I have copied over the file structure so it is identical - but when I run it I always get the Install screen to install it from scratch ?

I have looked at the Setting.php but cannot seem to locate what I need to change - never used Drupal before

I installed drupal for the first time the last couple of days.
I chose 8.0-alpha4.
I am on an Ubuntu Linux 12.04 PreceisePangolin machine.
I have Apache, MySQL and PHP5 installed as well.
I fumbled my way through the entire installation, and got to the
success page where it says:
"Drupal installation complete. Visit your new site."

I have been running mutlisites on linux for many years.

I'm not an expert on linux or apache. I made it work mostly by trial and errors without fully understanding what is beneath it. Now I attempt to do something very unique. Couldn't make it work so far. Any suggestion is greatly appreciated.

Hi,

I have been trying to get Drupal 7.x running on Centos 6.4 64bit.

When I run drupals install.php it appears the theme does not load , I get the logo but it doesn't load the CSS theme.

If I continue with installing the drupal I can access drupal fine but the themes do no load.

I have gone through the install instructions and tried on two different machines but still cannot figure out how to fix this.

Id be grateful for any ideas to help troubleshoot this and find a fix.

Many Thanks
Peter

Hi Chaps, I am not sure if anyone can help or even if I am in the correct section of the forum ;-((
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