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Video: Installing Drupal 5

Jeff Robbins
by Jeff Robbins
December 29, 2006

New Drupal users will be thrilled to find out that installing Drupal is now as simple as pointing the installer at your database and clicking "install". This video shows how to set up the database and install Drupal 5 all without ever having to type anything at the command line.

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Comments

download?

On December 30th, 2006 Venkat (not verified) said:

I like your videocasts, but please spare a thought for those without the luxury of a high speed connection. Can you provide a link for downloading this? Clicking on the download tab seems to only load the Quick time player in a browser.

Thanks,
Venkat

Up to the browser

On December 30th, 2006 jeff said:

That is just your browser that is choosing to display the download in a browser window. Once the file has downloaded you should be able to choose the "Save As..." menu item to save the video file to your hard drive.

not so

On December 31st, 2006 Victor Kane (not verified) said:

Firefox 2.0
Linux
hitting download tab starts up mplayer without a choice, of course.
Right button, save as, ridiculously saves movie (no indication anywhere of its extension) as a 6 MB html
Double clicking it plays it (mplayer knows what it is), but Lullabot can do better :)

Agreed

On December 31st, 2006 jeff said:

Yes, this is quite frustrating. We are using the Video module (for Drupal 4.7). Probably best to post this as an issue to the Video project until I can take some time to put together a patch. It seems like this isn't a problem with the Audio module that we're using for the audiocasts, so maybe I'll figure out how to port that code over.

Yes and no :-)

On January 5th, 2007 Venkat (not verified) said:

I understand that, but I still have to wait for the whole video to download to the browser.

Perhaps you can consider providing it as an attachment as Jeremy Epstein does on his site? This makes it a lot easier to download it directly.

Right Click on Download Tab

On March 10th, 2007 Airtime (not verified) said:

If you right click on the download tab, you can "save-as" the file to you computer.

-Airtime

Additional RDBMS and settings.php

On December 30th, 2006 Jason (not verified) said:

It's great that they added pgsql to the Drupal install script. The articles from the guys at IBM suggested using DB2 as a potential RDBMS. I guess the install script is for making it easier to use pgsql and mysql.

Also, it seems that you didn't have to change the permissions on the settings.php file. That's some great stuff!

Nice video. Keep up the good work :)

Installation fails

On February 8th, 2007 Bob (not verified) said:

Hi
I have 3 different installs of drupal and cant get any to work.
I was wondering if you can show any potential error screens.
You could do this in another file to download.

Would help un Drupal newbies when we cant get past the first hurdle.
brings us to a complete stop.

Cheers
Bob

Thanks for the great

On February 27th, 2007 Liam (not verified) said:

Thanks for the great screencast.
For more novices who prefer to follow screen-cast instructions, I recommend the screencasts at http://www.dudertown.com/

I used these in conjunction with lullabot's.

Dudertown lessons 8,9 and 10 take you thru a few steps needed before you can install Drupal (like installing PHP and MySQL). Halfway thru lesson 10, I switched to the lullabot screencast above since the dudertown screencast skipped a few things on security and was focused on the 4.x drupal installation.
Thanks
L

Can't get it to work

On April 21st, 2007 Edwin (not verified) said:

I have drupal 5.1 in XAMPP on Windows and followed instructions on the video - carefully step by step (which takes loads longer than 5 minutes by the way!). I've done it twice now with a data base called drupal and one called drupal5. Both times I get this message:
Failure to connect to your MySQL database server. MySQL reports the following message: Access denied for user 'drupal5'@'localhost' (using password: YES).

Any advice? Thanks, Edwin

Got it to work!

On April 22nd, 2007 Edwin (not verified) said:

Uninstalled drupal-5.1 and XAMPP and deleted the left over files and folders. Overnight Vista came up with updates which, when installed, rattled around the hard drive for 10 minutes. Rebooted - went to apacahe friends and downloaded an updated XAMPP with a note not to install it in "Program Files" on Vista! Unpacked drupal directly into htdocs. Carefully and slowly went through Jeff's instruction pausing and checking as I went ... WACKO! it worked

Thanks

Very, very helpful

On October 2nd, 2007 Anonymous (not verified) said:

Very, very helpful... Thanks. After reading a few descriptions on how to do this, I was still uncertain. If a picture is worth a thousand words, this short vid is priceless.
Thanks,

Just wanted to say thanks

On October 14th, 2007 Mark (not verified) said:

Just wanted to say thanks very much the video, i am completly new to all this and with this website and the drupal forums i finally got it working,

How can I install the Local

On November 26th, 2007 Anonymous (not verified) said:

How can I install the Local Web Server on Windows Vista?

Several packages

On November 26th, 2007 addi said:

There are several Windows server packages out there. We have a video that shows how to Install a Local Web Server on Windows XP which uses the WAMP package. While that video is for XP, WAMP also runs on Vista.

You can find other ways to install a local web server in the Local server setup section of the handbook on drupal.org.

Wow!

On January 14th, 2008 Anba (not verified) said:

Man! Thats a cool video explain everything i need to know on how to install Drupal.
Many Thanks

-Anba

Installer

On March 1st, 2008 Daniel (not verified) said:

A number of other posters have suggested installing WAMP or XAMPP and then Drupal on top of them. The BitNami Drupal installer stack is a free, all-in-one installer for Apache, MySQL, PHP and, of course, Drupal. It works on Windows, Linux, Mac and should get you up and running in just minutes. It is self-contained, so if you do not like it, just click uninstall and will be gone :)

Priceless - Thank you !!!!

On March 12th, 2008 Anonymous (not verified) said:

Priceless - Thank you !!!!

Multiple sites?

On March 12th, 2008 Dan (not verified) said:

Thanks for a great video that got drupal working locally for me. I originally tried to get XAMPP working as per the drupal handbook (http://drupal.org/node/161975) but never managed to get it working smoothly, so went with WAMP using Addi's local web server video (http://www.lullabot.com/videocast/install-local-web-server-windows-xp).

This seems great for a single website and installation of drupal, but how do I then go from this to a multisite test setup?

how-to-instal-drupal video

On June 27th, 2008 Mark Griffith (not verified) said:

Is this video only available in one format?