Website using Drupal

samwsmith1

wonka wrote: »

If you intend to eventually have a website hosted on the internet, then the webhost will provide apache/php/mysql. You could even knock up a temporary one for free from http://www.000webhost.com/

But, if you really do want to set one up locally to experiment & play with (and plenty people do), don't mess about doing this with the various individual components, just download an appliance such as:
http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp.html

Some good pointers there
Forgot to mention xampp, of course it might be easier to just use 000webhost or similar.

ahll

samwsmith1 wrote: »

Some good pointers there
Forgot to mention xampp, of course it might be easier to just use 000webhost or similar.

But, if you really do want to set one up locally to experiment & play with (and plenty people do), don't mess about doing this with the various individual components, just download an appliance such as:l

If I use this option can I used Drupal with it ? I think I would like to play around on it on my laptop before posting anything on the web.


I have tried to install the packages seperately. SQL seems to have worked ok but for apache there seems to be a ptoblem. It seems to intall ok but there doesnt seem to the the options available that there sud be. When I try checking the localhost:8080 I get cannot display the page. I am not sure what I have done wrong ..any ideas ?

I went for manual start as suggested

Once the file has downloaded, double-click on it as usual to start the installation

wizard. After a few steps, you

’ll arrive at the Server Information screen.

If you were setting up a web server to be accessed publicly on the Web, the options
on this screen would be important. For the purposes of setting up a development
server, you can type whatever you like. If you know your computer

’s network name,

type that in for the Server Name. Feel free to put in your correct email address if,
like me, you

’re a stickler for the details. If you already have a web server running

on your computer (for example, if you have also set up IIS to do some ASP.NET
development on the same computer), you may need to select the

only for the Current

User, on Port 8080, when started Manually

option on this screen, so as to avoid a conflict

with the existing web server running on port 80.
On the next screen, choose the

Typical option for the Setup Type, and follow the

wizard from there to complete the installation. When it

’s done, you should see a

new icon for the Apache Service Monitor running in your System Tray. If you chose
the default option to have Apache start up automatically, the status indicator should
be green, as shown in Figure 1.11; otherwise, you

’ll need to start Apache manually
as shown in Figure 1.12 before you can use it.

When you have Apache up and running, open your web browser of choice and type
http://localhost into the location bar. If you chose the option to run Apache on port
8080, you will need to type http://localhost:8080 instead. Hit

Enter, and you should

see a page like that shown in Figure 1.13 that confirms Apache is working correctly.

mynamesnotdave

hi,
I use a cheap package from http://orchardhosting.com for a tenner a year for my drupal site. Their packages have cPanel and you can install Drupal from cPanel in about a minute.

wonka

ahll wrote: »

If I use this option can I used Drupal with it ? I think I would like to play around on it on my laptop before posting anything on the web.

Yes, you can use Drupal with Xampp. In fact, you can install any PHP/Mysql software on XAMPP.

The problems you mention about Apache are quite common - it's a complex but powerful web server. You may want to persevere in learning how to get apache configured... but the reason XAMPP is so popular is that it is used by developers who would rather concentrate on the actual applications. XAMPP gives you an instant environment without the headaches.

Some instructions here:
http://www.slideshare.net/a_rupeshkumar/installation-of-drupal-on-windows-xp-with-xampp-presentation
http://drupal.org/node/75537
http://drupal.org/node/307956
http://drupal.org/node/161975

ahll

I think maybe a deleted the localhost because is was attached to something else. Does anyone know if/how I can put it back ?

got this sorted now and get the It works message :-)

ahll

wonka wrote: »

Yes, you can use Drupal with Xampp. In fact, you can install any PHP/Mysql software on XAMPP.

The problems you mention about Apache are quite common - it's a complex but powerful web server. You may want to persevere in learning how to get apache configured... but the reason XAMPP is so popular is that it is used by developers who would rather concentrate on the actual applications. XAMPP gives you an instant environment without the headaches.

Some instructions here:
http://www.slideshare.net/a_rupeshkumar/installation-of-drupal-on-windows-xp-with-xampp-presentation
http://drupal.org/node/75537
http://drupal.org/node/307956
http://drupal.org/node/161975

Also I am running Vista not Windows XP so is drupal installed the same ?


I have been told about editors that a better for PHP files does anyone know which of these is best ?

NetBeans http://www.netbeans.org/features/php/

Aptana http://www.aptana.com/php

Komodo Edit http://www.activestate.com/komodo_edit/