Installing Drupal

A tool we could all use, especially for new site builders.

Everytime I build a new site, I research 3rd party contributed module choices.

Yet, I have method to the madness. By that I mean the first thing I do is... run a search and sort on modules for lastest drupal release and then filter by most installed. Then I individually go through all those modules and download them one at a time. This is time consuming and redundant work, since I do it for practically every site I build.

Usually to make things simple as possible I just download everything in the order they filter for most installed and count them as I go. I will usually go through the most installed modules for version of Drupal I am using for around 300 module files.

Sounds like alot, but most often with that many modules I pick up on most of the modules I will probably be using. No the list isn't complete for every install, but it is a good list for most of my sites.

After all those individual module files are on my local computer I run 7zip or Winrar and extract all those files to one folder, i.e.,"modules-02-03-13 most installed". The files have all been extracted at this point and all the module folders are visable.

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I created a test site. I created two folders in my public_html folder: gef and dsite. The test site I used while building the site and working with the client, is at gef.sitename.org and being directed there by my host's domain central from the folder public_html/dsite. The folder public_html/gef contains a simple html temporary site which is at sitename.org.

Is there a way I can move gef.sitename.org to sitename.org without completely rebuilding the drupal site or causing the site to break? I have backed up al of the code I could think of.

Hello , Drupals

Im Stefan ,from Bulgaria .
I need help in installing Drupal.I wanted to create my own site and after surfing the net for programs with wich can make it easyer I have stopped on Drupal.So my question is: Do i need Server to start using the program ? I want to use the program to make a site "offline" and if I like it find a server and publish my site , so can I ?

Hello,

Can anyone help me? I want to install drupal in my local computer. From internet I have know that it is easy to install drupal by Acquia. But when I have gone to their website www.acquia.com/downloads I saw two Drupal installation. One is Acquia Drupal and other is Dev Desktop. I have read the details, I have not understand the difference clearly.
So which one I should download and what will be the benefits?

Hi all, I tried to install via FTP in a subdirectory of my site done in D7 another site created in locahost. I imported the database and I connected with the settings.php file. The result is that the site is visible but will not let me log in as administrator ... someone please tell me what is wrong in that?
thanks

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