Setting up our Drupal

Subject: Content Management System

But before creating the project, let’s first install all the prerequisites and setup our Drupal.

Prerequisites

Choose the software based on your OS and install it:
- Windows: WAMP
- Mac: MAMP
- Linux: XAMPP or LAMP
Download Composer and install it as well.
Choose a drupal version:, there are many available, I am going to go with Drupal 7.101 cause why not ;) Some of the versions might have commands for example 11.0.4 has composer create-project drupal/recommended-project:11.0.4 "install-dir" but sadly the version that I choose doesn’t have so we will do it old fashioned way:
- Step 1: Go on the release page of the specific version in my case 7.101 then click on Download tar.gz, after done downloading extract it.
- Step 2: Rename the folder to whatever the project name you wish (ex:drupal-7.101 > real_estate_web). Now move that folder to the www directory of the software we first installed (such as for WAMP it will be "XYZ-directory\wamp64\www\" for me, you can find yours accordingly.)

Setting up SQL Database

Step 1: Run your main software, In my case WAMP and then open up your favourite browser and go to localhost, then you will see PhpMyAdmin click on it and log into it (default username would be root and password as blank, in most cases.)
Step 2: After you have logged in at the left side there will be many databases present.
- Click on New there. and then Enter your “Database name” and click on Create, after that it will as to Create new table keep it default for now and press Create.

You can create custom usernames aswell for the database like I made adminji yha I know cliché hahaha

Soo, steps to creating your custom username is as follows:

Step 1: Go to Privileges
Step 2: Click on Add user account
Step 3: Input User nameand Password (you can choose to leave password empty as well I wouldn’t recommend it.) and don’t forget to Check all in Global privileges option and then scroll down a bit a press Go button, to create the user.
- So, our SQL database is setup and if you did custom username that’s a plus from me, now lets Setup our Drupal.

Setting up Drupal

You remember we downloaded some drupal tar.gz file > then we extracted and renamed it > & also moved it to the www folder, so let me tell you why we did that

we can’t name our project Drupal, whenever I tried doing this it gave error you can try :) so that is why we renamed the folder.
why we moved it? well our main software in my case WAMP can access our project from a specific location which is "XYZ-directory\wamp64\www\" for me. (If you are using Composer to install drupal then you can do it by going to the www folder and opening terminal/cmd there.)

Now let’s get started for real o.O

Step 1: go on your favourite browser O.o and visit localhost again but this time with a twist localhost/YOUR-PROJECT-NAME (the project name is the one that you gave to the folder present in the www folder.)
Step 2: then we just need to follow the instructions and install the drupal
- 2.1: Choose profile: I went with Standard.
- 2.2: Choose whatever language you prefer
- 2.3: Choose the database (for me it will be MySQL and Database name will be real_estate_db, Database username for me adminji)
- 2.4: Now we wait for Drupal profile to get installed and initialized
- 2.5: Now you have to input your Website’s information, like Site name, e-mail, Username (don’t get confused this username is for log in on the Drupal website not the database, that’s different.) and off course Password, after filling all the details scroll a bit down and proceed by clicking on Save and continue button.
- 2.6: :D