In this tutorial ,I try to write exaclty the steps I passed through while installing Apache,MySql,PHP and druap for the first time on windows.
- Download Apache web server from http://httpd.apache.org/download.cgi
,for this tutorial I downloaded version 2.2.10 Win32 Binary without crypto (no mod_ssl)
MSI Installer - Run the installer , during installation I kept the default settings, the installation folder is
"C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Apache2.2" - For the Network Domain,Server Name and Administrator's Email Address I entered localhost,localhost and admin@localhost respectively
- Download and install MySql Community server from
http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/ - Download and install MySql GUI Tools from
http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/gui-tools/5.0.html , although these tools are
not required but they make it easy to manage MySql Server - Download PHP from http://www.php.net/downloads.php
, for this tutorial I downloaded version 5.2.6 zip package - Extract the PHP zip file into folder c:\php
- Add PHP folder to the system path
- Right click on My Computer
- Choose Advanced Tab
- Click on Environment Variables button
- From System variables , select Path
- Click Edit
- Add the folder where PHP is extracted (i.e. "c:\php") to the end of the Variable value
- The Path Variable might look something like %SystemRoot%\system32;%SystemRoot%;C:\Program
Files\MySQL\MySQL Server 5.0\bin;C:\php
- Restart your computer for the Path vaialbe to be reflected on the system
- Go to PHP installation folder ("c:\php") ,make a copy of php.ini-recommended and rename it to php.ini
- Edit php.ini
- Set max_execution_time = 300 (line 303) , the default value is 30 but some drupal actions take longer time
- Set display_errors = On (line 372), the default value is Off
- Set display_startup_errors = On (line 377), the default value is Off
- set extension_dir = ".\ext\" (line 536), this the folder where PHP extensions reside
- Uncomment the following lines by removing the semicolon at the begining of each line ,to enable the corresponding extensions
- ;extension=php_gd2.dll (line 661)
- ;extension=php_mbstring.dll (line 668)
- ;extension=php_mysql.dll (line 675)
- ;extension=php_mysqli.dll (line 676)
- Edit httpd.conf found in "C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Apache2.2\conf"
- To change your WWW root folder change DocumentRoot value (line 177) to your WWW root folder e.g. DocumentRoot "C:/wwwroot"
- change <Directory "C:/Program Files/Apache Software Foundation/Apache2.2/htdocs"> (line 204) to <Directory "C:/wwwroot">
- To Enable mod rewrite
- Uncomment the following line #LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so (line 116) by removing the hash at the begning of the line
- inside tag <Directory "C:/wwwroot"> (line 204) , change AllowOverride None (line 224) to AllowOverride All
- To Enable PHP
- Inside tag <IfModule dir_module> line (238) change DirectoryIndex index.html to DirectoryIndex index.php index.html so index.php will be regonized as a default file
- at the end of the file add the following lines
#Enable PHP 5.2.6
LoadModule php5_module "C:/php/php5apache2_2.dll"
AddType application/x-httpd-php .php
# configure the path to php.ini
PHPIniDir "C:/php"
- Using MySql query browser create a new schema called "drupalDB"
- Download Drupal 6.6 from Drupal Download
- extract the downloaded file to c:\wwwroot\drupal
- Go to drupal installation folder ("c:\wwwroot\drupal") ,make a copy of default.settings.php and rename it to settings.php
- If settings.php is readonly make it writeable
- Open your briwser and go the url http://localhost/drupal/ click make a new drupal installation and follow the wizard
That's it Done
