I wanted to prepare a local hosting on my own PC running Windows XP. I succeeded installing Apache,PHP is working. SQL seems not to work although the service is running (MySQL server 5.5). When I want to start with the setup of Drupal in the browser window the process stops on the check for requirements. It says the database support is disabled and the web server does not support PDO database extensions. I tryed to follow the suggestions about this without success.
I am a newbie. I have setup a basic working site locally on my Ubuntu 10.10. Locally the website is as I expect it to be.
But I need step by step instructions on how to transfer this to my webserver that supports drupal. Can someone please point me to such documentation. I see that there are loads of things like export database, modify database, export database, dump database that are being used that I do not know.
Though I have good knowledge of HTML, I dont know how and which files to transfer from drupal to webserver drupal folder.
I have been using ServInt VPS and they have great support. I am not a system administrator and they always help. Support varies with VPS providers, many claim to be managed.
The problem is I often exceed system resources for the VPS when importing a lot of data. ServInt does not have a cloud option, and increasing will cost a couple hundred per month.