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Installing Drupal on your Home Windows Computer Using XAMPP
Drupal version: Drupal 6.x
Audience: Documentation contributors
Last modified: May 25, 2010
Using the following steps, I successfully installed Drupal 6.16 on computers run
ning Windows 7, 32-bit, with Explorer 8 and Norton 360 security. Drupal isn t easy
to install on a Windows computer, because the prerequisite database and webserv
er component are not normally installed on desktop computers.
Note: These instructions are intended for trying out Drupal on your home compute
r. DO NOT use these instructions to install Drupal for a website on the internet
. Always make sure you have the latest Windows updates installed on your compute
r, and have an anti-virus program installed, updated and running.
PART I Getting and Installing XAMPP
1. Remove any previous versions of XAMPP on your computer only if you tried inst
alling it before. Go to All Programs > XAMPP > Uninstall .
2. Execute the following steps
A.) Go to www.apachefriends.org.
B.) Click on XAMPP (on the icons in the navigation bar on the top of the website
).
C.) Click on XAMPP for Windows.
D.) You ll see a list titled Jump off Point .
E.) Click on XAMPP Lite .
F.) Click on the red EXE link (this means self extracting file).
G.) An ad will pop up on the next page; ignore it.
H.) Look above the ad, and under the Source Forge logo, you will see: Your XAMPP
download will start shortly Problems with the download? Please use this direct lin
k or try another mirror.
I.) Click on Use this direct link.
J.) A Getting Information Open Open Folder Cancel box will pop up.
K.) A Do you want to run or save this file? box will pop up on top of the Getting I
nformation box (I think this is a Norton thing. Without Norton, you just might ge
t the Getting information box.
L.) Select Run or Open whichever option it gives you.
M.) XAMPP will want to extract into the C folder . Let it.
N.) When it finishes downloading, a black box will pop up and ask you questions.
Keep hitting enter. Don t change anything.
O.) On the final black box, where you have to enter something to make it go away
, type a lower case x and then enter.
P.) You now have XAMPP on your computer, but DON T PLAY WITH IT YET. There s other s
tuff to do first.
PART II Getting and Installing Drupal
A.) Go to www.drupal.org
B.) Click on Download Drupal 6.16 , or whichever is the latest version
C.) Click on Open
D.) Drupal will download.
E.) Pay attention which folder Drupal is downloaded to.
F.) Use Windows Explorer (not the browser, but the file viewing program that is
under All Programs > Accessories > Window Explorer) to find the Drupal file. You
might have to check folders under documents, downloads, etc. If you can t find it
, create a folder in documents and download it again into that folder. Don t try t
o open the Drupal download folder now, just make sure you can find it. It will l
ook like drupal-1.16.tar . A .tar is a different kind of zip file, and you need a .tar
opener for it, I found out the hard way.
G.) Go to www.winzip.com and download their free 45 day trial of winzip.
H.) After Winzip is installed, go to Start > Winzip > WinZip 14.0
I.) Click Use Evaluation Version
J.) Ignore the tip box, just close that.
K.) Click Open
L.) Navigate to the folder where the drupal-1.16.tar file is located.
M.) Double click on the drupal-1.16.tar file.
N.) A Should Windows Decompress it to a temporary folder and open box will appear.
Click Yes.
O.) TRICKY PART: Click EXTRACT (that button is three spaces to the right from Ope
n )
P.) TRICKY PART: In the left window pane box, double click on Computer>Local Dis
k C > XAMPPLITE.
Q.) TRICKY PART: Click ONLY ONCE on htdocs so that it is highlighted.
R.) TRICKY PART: Click on EXTRACT (the highlighted button) on the bottom of the wi
nzip navigation box. (Don t panic, it s there. Take a breath and look for it careful
ly.)
S.) Drupal is now loaded in your htdocs folder of your XAMPPLITE installation. D
ON T PLAY WITH IT YET.
T.) Double click on HTDOCS. You should see two folders there, XAMPP and drupal-1
.16
U.) TRICKY PART: Right Click on drupal-1.16, Select Rename from the dropdown menu.
Remove the -1.16 from the end of the drupal file. It should just read drupal (all
lower case) when you are done. This is important for later when your localhost
looks for drupal.
V.) There should be two yellow folders in your htdocs folder, XAMPP and drupal.
If this is what you have, so far so good! Leave the other files in there alone.
W.) Close all your Windows Explorer boxes and unused screens so you won t get conf
used in these next steps.
X.) Double Click Local Disk C:> XAMPPLITE > HTDOCS > DRUPAL > SITES > DEFAULT
Y.) You will see a file in there named default.settings.php Right click on the d
efault.settings.php folder and choose Copy from the drop down menu. DON T PASTE IT Y
ET!
Z.) Click on the back arrow (in the very upper left hand corner of the windows e
xplorer box you re in now) and you should see two yellow folders, all and default .
AA.) Right click in the white space underneath the default folder and select paste
.
AB.) A copy of the default.settings.php folder will appear. Right click on it, s
elect rename, and change the file name to settings.php All we re doing is removing
the default. from the front of the file name.
AC.) Highlight the newly named settings.php folder and drag it on top of the yel
low default folder.
AD.) Double click the yellow default folder and you should see two files in there
now: your orginal default.settings.php folder and your settings.php folder. Note
: this is a file your database needs to write to.
AE.) Close all windows.
PART III Getting XAMPPLITE and Drupal working together.
A.) Double click the XAMPP Control Panel icon on your desktop.
B.) An XAMPP Control Panel box will open in the lower right hand corner of your
screen.
C.) Under Modules click the svc box for Apache so there is a check in it. Click Apac
he START. DO NOT click the svc box for MySql, but do click the START button for My
Sql. When both Apache and MySql change from start to running , click the Admin button
ext to MySql.
D.) On the left hand side, in the light blue column, there will be a phpMyAdmin lo
go, and under the logo a picture of a house. Click on the picture of the house (
first icon on the left).
E.) A Browser window will open, and under My Sql Localhost there is a box that s
ays create database . Write in drupal (all lower case) and hit create .
F.) Close the window.
G.) Open a browser.
H.) Type http://localhost/drupal in the address bar (If you only type in http://
localhost you ll get the XAMPP program)
I.) A Drupal screen should open. If not, check your XAMPP controller box (double
click the XAMPP icon on your desktop if you need to open it) and make sure both
XAMPP and MySql are started.
J.) Select install in English.
K.) Drupal will verify your requirements. Give it a minute.
L.) In the Set Up Database screen, enter drupal (all lowercase) for Database Nam
e. For E-mail address, enter your e-mail address (you won t be able to use the e-m
ail feature right now, but just put it in there) and TRICKY PART: for Database u
ser name enter root (all lowercase) and for Database password LEAVE THIS BLANK.
Do not enter anything.
M.) Administrator Account Setup: this is what you will use to access the site on
your home computer. I just used my first name as my user name, and then put a 1
after my name for my password. It s easy to remember.
N.) Once you re finished, you will get an error message about your e-mail account.
Ignore that for now. Your Drupal install is now complete and usable, and I woul
d highly recommend Drupal for Dummies (http://drupalfordummies.com/) to learn wh
at to do next.
To access Drupal whenever you login to your computer, open a browser window, go
to http://localhost/drupal and enter your user name and password. Remember to ma
ke sure both Apache and MySql are running in the XAMPP controller box (double cl
ick on the desktop XAMPP icon).
Enjoy!
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Comments
Very useful
Posted by ace87 on March 30, 2010 at 8:19pm
Fantastic, thank you!
phpMyAdmin
Posted by Change Evolution on June 21, 2010 at 6:04am
Hi, great instructions up to the point where I got to phpMyAdmin Every time I trie
d to launch phpMyAdmin it just came up blank in the browser.
I'm stuck!
Hints tips and a point in the right direction would be appreciated.
Cheers
Apache web server may not be
Posted by desiman on July 28, 2010 at 12:04am
Apache web server may not be up and running, if you have IIS also installed in t
he same m/c as apache, there will be port conflict. You can check that by clicki
ng on Port-check button on XAMPP Control Panel. It is 3rd button on right hand s
ide.
If that is the case the best thing to do is stop IIS, World Wide Web services an
d disable them (so that they are not started after the reboot)
Once that is done try to start the Apache again from XAMPP Control Panel. You sh
ould see Apache service as running.
Yep - very useful
Posted by buildup on November 8, 2010 at 4:45pm
Did get drupal up on a linux machine. But Win7 was a challenge (as in not having
a clue how to do it). I followed this and it worked. I am not nit-picking on fi
le vs. folder. TO do a drupal by ones-self to me means you should know about bas
ics of how-to software installation.
I even blew the Drupal installation by hitting a wrong key before I should have.
So I closed Apache and MySQL (to open-source!) deleted the drupal folder, re-ex
tracted and such. All told this was 30 minutes. Neat and quick.
Thnx for working this around, and then follow-up links. My plan is to get get Al
fresco (go open-source!) and then make this available to the public (and me when
elsewhere). Including on my Android phone (oh yea, did I mention go open-source
! ?).
Rory
...
Posted by silverwing on March 30, 2010 at 8:29pm
This page needs to be part of a book outline. And the title should probably incl
ude XAMPP - as opposed to WAMP.
~silverwing -
________________________________
MisguidedThoughts
thanks
Posted by DrupalBeginner on March 31, 2010 at 1:23am
Thanks for the comments! Silverwing, I tried WAMP but couldn't figure out how to
make it work.
XAMPP was a lot easier. Yes, there are a TON of people who really want - and nee
d - a drupal website (I'm an aspiring standup comedian) and what really makes pe
ople gravitate to a site is the ability to interact with it. People expect that
now.
What would help Drupal grow like a rocket would be better "on ramps" for the new
user, BUT "on-ramps" rated by skill level. For example, on the home page, if th
e help menus looked like this:
GETTING STARTED WITH DRUPAL:
Click here for the novice user, no HTML or CSS experience
Click here for the intermediate level user, some HTML, CSS, no PHP
Click here for the advanced user, HTML, CSS, PHP...
Then have a "Glossary of Terms" explaining everything from Open Source to PHP. B
asically, an article embedded with Wikipedia links.
What would really rock would be "BUILD THIS SITE" Guides...have a bunch of sites
, application focused, for example a fan site for a performer, that list the ste
ps to build it start to finish.
Just my thoughts...
- DrupalBeginner
...
Posted by silverwing on March 31, 2010 at 2:05am
I'm primarily a Mac user, but I have tried XAMPP and WAMP and I personally just
find WAMP more user-friendly.
I'll be the first to admit that I don't understand the Drupal Documentation stru
cture - this was a reminder that this page needs to be part of an outline and th
at XAMPP should be in the title!
So if you could find a home for this page (tutorials?) and add XAMPP to the titl
e, that would be great! (And I'll delete these comments about it!)
~silverwing- a drupal.org site maintainer
________________________________
MisguidedThoughts
Say it loud
Posted by randyjkoch1 on October 17, 2010 at 5:22pm
You are right on! especially the part about walking us by the hand from start to
finish of a website we want. I am the older generation but I know I can follow
simple instructions if they are explained clearly with examples. If Drupal did t
his they would indeed take over the world. I wonder why they dont?
Many Thanks
Posted by pbuchanan4 on April 2, 2010 at 9:21pm
Thank you so much for these directions. I did not have the time to put into figu
ring out how to load this on my computer to play and learn with before actually
doing a site on the web (I have been using dreamweaver but wanted something cust
omers could add/update content themselves) and I can tell this saved me tons of
time and frustration.
I had a few minor differences in loading but not enough to confuse me. Many, man
y thanks. And now I am set for when my copy of Drupal for Dummies arrives. In th
e mean time, I can check things out and get my feet wet.
Yeah for webbies who help us get through the techie part!
pbuchanan4@radford.edu
Thank you, pal
Posted by g.oged on April 4, 2010 at 2:35pm
Gracias, NTSC
many thanks for the detailed
Posted by hermanserey on April 5, 2010 at 12:23pm
many thanks for the detailed instructions. Worked like a charm!
Great help!
Posted by nisamone on April 12, 2010 at 2:16am
This article WAS of great help. THX a lot! Starting to get myself into the world
of Drupal... :)
//nISAMoNE
Thanks for the excellent, accurate instructions
Posted by drude on April 13, 2010 at 5:20pm
After struggling to get a local testing server and Drupal up and running for a f
ew days - and being completely unable to figure out what was going wrong, I foun
d your excellent instructions and they solved my problems, showed me what my err
ors had been, and got me up and running on the very first try!
Thanks for your time and effort, and good luck.
Thanks!
Posted by catbartels on April 15, 2010 at 4:29pm
You've made installing and activating Drupal pain free! I would love to see this
in a book and I thought your idea of having instructions geared toward differen
t levels of knowledge is an excellent one. Thanks again...
Cathi
installling drupal
Posted by cwicker on April 25, 2010 at 8:08pm
great until I need to pull up a browser "localhost/drupal" It brings up "object
not found" - Part III, H.
Any suggestions?
installing drupal
Posted by DrupalBeginner on April 30, 2010 at 3:37am
1st try: make sure you're using http://localhost/drupal and not http://www.local
host...
2nd try: Double click the XAMPP icon on your desktop and make sure both Apache a
nd Mysql are running (click start).
Let me know...
- DrupalBeginner
installing drupal
Posted by bigamama on June 18, 2010 at 4:54pm
hi there. have the same problem. in the sql box apache says started but never ge
t the apache to say 'running' so i'm not convinced its started. i get the same '
no object found ' . thanks for your help.
- oops just saw the comment below - skype has to be OFF. this worked. THANKS!
Bigamama
Object not found
Posted by mavis_nippyhook on January 21, 2011 at 12:11pm
I am having the same above mentioned error and i do not have Skype running?
What to do?
Mavis
Ditch all this crap. Do you
Posted by mjohnq3 on January 21, 2011 at 6:08pm
Ditch all this crap. Do you want to learn Drupal or how to configure web servers
? Go to Acquia dot com and download the Acquia Drupal Stack Installer (http://ac
quia.com/downloads) for your OS. In about 5 minutes you'll have a complete worki
ng Drupal installation that also includes many contributed modules.
Darknessy Drupal Installation Zone
Posted by alternata99 on May 5, 2010 at 2:11pm
(Please, excuse my bad English)
I am a old-new Drupal beginner.
I tried to install (Win-localhost) Drupal 6.x at least in 8-10 opportunities and
left it every time.
For these trials I read every piece of related text in drupal.org and "drupaling
" sites and blogs or articles I found.
For any reason, each article or tutorial was unclear or unaccurate or incomplete
or simply wrongly-explained in one or more steps, and the "golden-way" was miss
ed by me, every time, again and again.
Again and again, I thought: "I should leave it and jump into Joomla or Wordpress
", but didn't want to renounce to the excellence promised by Drupal reviewers an
d fans.
A month ago, I succeeded (Hallelujah!) with Drupal installation, after 4 new att
empts: raw, 2 Bitnami Wamp, and Xampp ways. (The last and success-crowned attemp
t was a Xampp one).
If the first time I met Drupal I could get a clear, concise and straightforward
tutorial like this one, I think I had been building Drupal sites since 2008 (the
early D6 days).
In my modest opinion, the lack of an INSTALL APPLICATION or a GOOD INSTALLATION
TUTORIAL blown away from Drupal a lot of people that possibly went over to other
CMS and will find themselves, in a migrating future step, coming back to Drupal
installation process because of the other CMS limitations.
Together with a very poor admin interface (3 in a 0-10 points Usability/User Fri
endly scale), the installation issue is the Drupal 6 Achilles heel.
Perhaps should be in the Drupal core team some non-code-oriented guys helping in
avoiding these sins.
"DrupalBeginner" - you did a GREAT JOB. Now we all should spread it webwide.
Thanks!
Posted by DrupalBeginner on May 9, 2010 at 11:21pm
Alternata - do not worry about your English, it is good! I wish I could speak an
other language as well as you speak English. I'm glad this was helpful.
- DrupalBeginner
xampp control panel
Posted by matijevic on May 9, 2010 at 11:11pm
I was able to solve the problem described bellow... it seems that Skype should b
e turned off! After that it worked fine!
The instructions went great, even to easy for me at the beginning... till I came
to Apache MySql running part. I followed the instructions to the letter but the
re was no green running between apache and start button... in the text bellow it
's written:
Apache service started
Busy...
MySQL started
when I push the Admin button next to MySql (there is green running text displaye
d)
I get the message:
"Oops! This link appears to be broken.
Suggestions:
*Search on Google:
localhost phpmyadmin"
I am using xp windows btw Is that maybe the problem? if it is, wher can I get in
structions for local xp installation?
thx for the answer
XP
Posted by DrupalBeginner on May 9, 2010 at 11:28pm
Matiger - I had a netbook with XP and XAMPP wouldn't run on it. It has something
do with the later versions of php/mysql. You need to upgrade to windows 7. BTW,
to upgrade you need buy an external drive big enough to backup all your XP file
s as your hard drive will be wiped clean in the upgrade.
- DrupalBeginner
XAMPP on XP
Posted by matijevic on May 15, 2010 at 9:52am
it's not necessary to upgrade to windows 7, it works just fine with Windows XP.
My main problem was skype running in the background, the other was that I had wa
mpp and xampp installed simultaneously. So it's either xampp or wampp but not bo
th and quit skype during installation. that's all.
Great tutorial - thanks!
Posted by BenPoole on May 13, 2010 at 2:53pm
Yes, it should have Xampp in the title, but I still found it, so thank you for t
he detailed instructions! I actually already had Xampp installed so I was able t
o skip some of the instructions, which made me a little nervous. Worked like a c
hamp, though. Much appreciated!
Note: perhaps rather than make seperate links for different skill levels, simply
make subsections for some of the easier steps. For example, you really spell ou
t how to browse to a file, right click it, make a copy, paste in a new directory
and rename. Instead, you could simply say, "Make a copy of the settings.php fil
e and paste it into the .../xyz/sites/ directory. Follow the next 10 sub-steps f
or more detailed steps, or skip to the next step if you're ready."
Just a minor suggestion to an all-around excellent article. thanks again.
Thank you
Posted by natbrown on May 17, 2010 at 8:35am
I needed every word of what you wrote! I loved "Don't panic, it's there. Take a
breath and look for it carefully." I have installed it! Thank you!
--
Natasha Brown
http://www.LearnRussianSpeakRussian.org
http://www.YouTube.com/user/LearnRussianLanguage
Its easy to install in local
Posted by aerodown on May 18, 2010 at 10:35am
Its easy to install in local computer if running win 7...just download the web p
latform installer from microsoft.. its included everything mysql php drupal.. an
d of course you have to use iis. If you plan to use apace in windows than follow
this guide.
Thank you
Posted by jwhb on May 18, 2010 at 11:12am
Thanks
bottom EXTRACT
Posted by Lucie.Pittnerova on May 19, 2010 at 12:04pm
Hi, thankx for that all work . It is helpfull for sure. Just that part 'don't pa
nic, it is there...' I'm trying don't panic, but still cant find that bottom. Wh
ere exctly is placed? I downloaded winzip 14.5 and unfortunately finished befor
these tricky parts...
thankx
lucy
Extract button
Posted by DrupalBeginner on May 24, 2010 at 4:43am
Lucy -
Not sure of version 14, but try this program instead. It's free:
www.7-zip.org
Once you have it installed, go the file you have the drupal program in and click
"extract". It is right on the top of the page.
- DrupalBeginner
page cannot be displayed
Posted by aizkrim on May 24, 2010 at 4:00pm
i'm ok up to Part III C. when i clicked the Admin button next to MySql, a browse
r opened and gave me "The page you are looking for might have been removed, had
its name changed, or is temporarily unavailable."
what could be the problem? sorry, i'm a newbie in drupal. need help badly. thank
s.
My problem fixed
Posted by RAS on June 19, 2010 at 2:29pm
I encountered this same problem and frankly, I am not sure of the fix. But I am
sure it was because Apache was not "running." The next morning I tried to uninst
all XAMPP directly from C:. It would not allow me to do so, so I opened XAMPP to
see if there was an uninstall. There was not but Apache stated it was "running"
which it had not indicated the previous evening. So I started MySql and continu
ed down the list. Also, the only thing I did besides trying to uninstall was a r
eboot or two. Anyhow, go figure...
Additional notes:
PART III Getting XAMPPLITE and Drupal working together.
C.) - this is where my problem was. Apache must be running. If it is not, you ne
ed to wait or????? see above...
D. & E.) - when I clicked the Admin button on MySql, I did not need to click the
house. MySQL localhost was already there.
L.) I was not asked for a password until next screen (Drupal 6.17)
My system: XP prof. svc. pack 3
XP and XAMPP not recommended
Posted by DrupalBeginner on June 19, 2010 at 4:36pm
Early on I tried to install Drupal on an XP machine and ran into a lot of proble
ms. After a lot of research I found out that PHP 5 (used in MySql) isn't support
ed by XP. To prevent a lot of problems in the future, I'd recommend upgrading to
Windows 7 if possible.
- DrupalBeginner
Really?
Posted by mjohnq3 on June 19, 2010 at 6:27pm
For the last four years I've been doing all my local Drupal work using Win XP wi
th either XAMPP or the Acquia Stack Installer.
XP
Which version of XAMPP?? Maybe with an older version it runs o.k. I know the new
est version of XAMPP one uses the latest MySQL/PHP version...I bought an HP netb
ook with with XP on it (about a year ago) and man what a nightmare...
- DrupalBeginner
i was able to make apache and
Posted by aizkrim on May 25, 2010 at 12:13am
i was able to make apache and mysql run in xampp. but i still get 404 in localho
st/phpmyadmin?
what could be missing?
Are you using XP?
If you're using XP, see the above note. XP seems to be a problem for Drupal.
- Dave
- DrupalBeginner
try drupal
Make sure you put http://localhost/drupal in the address bar, not localhost/phpm
yadmin.... also, make sure your database is named drupal (all lower case).
- DrupalBeginner
Thanks alot!
Posted by mclaine on June 16, 2010 at 3:14am
This resource helped me to install drupal in a flash!...
Book recommendations for building a usable website with Drupal
Hi Guys -
Thanks for all the notes, I greatly appreciate it!
It took me a long time to figure out how to install Drupal, but now the battle i
s how to make a decent website with it - which is proving equally as challenging
!
My recommendations are: (from beginner to more advanced)
1.) Drupal for Dummies by Lynn Beighley www.drupalfordummies.com
2.) Drupal 6 Site Builder Solutions by Mark Noble (PACKT Publishing) www.packtpu
b.com/books/drupal
3.) Drupal 6 Site Blueprints by Timi Ogunjobi (PACKT Publishing) www.packtpub.co
m/books/drupal
The next thing I'm trying to figure out is how to make sure the database is secu
re...not quite sure how to do that and it makes me hesitant to launch my sites..
.
- Dave
- DrupalBeginner
Three Windows and XAMPP Nodes
Posted by DrupalBeginner on June 20, 2010 at 12:55am
Marc Vangend suggested cross-reference between these three Drupal
documentation nodes (below). All three address How to Install Drupal and
XAMPP on a Home Windows Machine.
I wrote the first node for the absolute non-tech person. Like so many
bloggers out there, I wanted a Website readers can interact with and is easy to
maintain and "do it yourself." Drupal is perfect for that. However, for the non-
tech person without access to a programmer, Drupal can be hard to install and se
t up.
The next two nodes (not mine) are great for more tech orientated users.
Please take a look at all three and see which one works best for you.
http://drupal.org/node/749846
- DrupalBeginner
Fantastic !!! : Drupal Installation for dummies
Posted by shabareesh on July 25, 2010 at 3:05pm
Drupal Installation for dummies
Is it possible to have more than 1 local instance?
Posted by Storm Druper on September 5, 2010 at 12:53am
Hi,
I followed your instructions and everything worked nicely. Is it possible now to
repeat the same for a second, third, etc local installation, e.g. for localhost
/drupal2, localhostdrupal3, etc?
How do I do that?
Thanks.
What a mess of a tutorial!
Posted by Floyder on October 10, 2010 at 7:14pm
Ok, I really am confused... Let me tell you why, Cherlock.
You wrote:
X.) Double Click Local Disk C:> XAMPPLITE > HTDOCS > DRUPAL > SITES > DEFAULT
Y.) You will see a file in there named default.settings.php (YES, I SEE IT!) Rig
ht click on the default.settings.php folder (BELIEVE ME - THERE IS NO SUCH FOLDE
R. THERE IS A F_I_L_E with that name INSIDE the "DEFAULT" FOLDER. I selected a F
ILE) and choose Copy (I COULD ASK "COPY WHAAT? FILE? or FOLDER?" Cmoon?!) from the
drop down menu. DON T PASTE IT YET!
Z.) Click on the back arrow (in the very upper left hand corner of the windows e
xplorer box you re in now) and you should see two yellow folders, all and default . (YE
S, I SEE THEM)
AA.) Right click in the white space underneath the default folder and select paste
. (OK, DID THAT - I PASTED A F_I_L_E)
AB.) A copy of the default.settings.php folder (?!) will appear (NOPE! I TOLD YO
U THERE IS NO SUCH FOLDER. IF I COPY THE FOLDER, I GET "Copy Of DEFAULT (which i
s a folder)). THERE IS ONLY A F_I_L_E called default.settings.php.)
Right click on it (IT SEEMS LOGICAL THAT YOU MEAN FOLDER? BY THE WAY IT'S IMPOSS
IBLE AS IT DOESN'T EXIST...), select rename, and change the file name (HOW CAN I
CHANGE THE FILE NAME BY RIGHT CLICKING ON A FOLDER? HUH?) to settings.php All w
e re doing is removing the default. from the front of the file (U SURE?) name.
AC.) Highlight the newly named settings.php folder (FOLDER? ARE YOU SURE? AS I S
AID THERE IS NO FOLDER WITH THAT NAME TO BEGIN WITH) and drag it on top of the y
ellow default folder
Double click the yellow default folder and you should see two files in there now:
your orginal default.settings.php folder and your settings.php folder. (YOU MUST
BE KIDDING.... I AM SUPPOSED TO SEE TWO FILES THAT ARE...KHM... FOLDERS? DAMN I
T - CAN YOU EVEN MAKE A DIFFERENCE BETWEEN FILE AND A FOLDER?)
Note: this is a file your database needs to write to.
AE.) Close all windows.

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