Bedrich Rios

Drupal aficionados rejoice! 6.0 is out. After a year long wait, this great Content Management System has released its latest edition. In case you are new to Drupal here are a few simple steps that will help you with the installation:

1. Download Drupal 6.0.
2. Open your favorite FTP client and move either the entire folder or its content to your web server’s root.
3. Once all the files have been uploaded, go in to the folder called sites and right click on a folder called default. Under properties or get info depending on your FTP client make the folder writable or 777. This will allow the installation to go smoothly. Note: if you moved the whole folder to your server on step 2 and not just its content, you will need to go to drupal-6.0 > sites.
4. Almost there, now create a mysql database and make sure to add a user for the newly created database. Note: most hosting services will allow you to do this through a CPanel like interface which you can access by typing http://yoursitename.com/cpanel.
5. Now you are ready to install Drupal 6.0, simply go to http://yoursitename.com or http://yoursitename.com/drupa-6.0 if you uploaded the entire folder not just its content in step 2. From here on, follow the on screen instructions.

Hope this was helpful but please do not blame me if something breaks or gets lost on your server, I am 99.9% confident that won’t happen though.

I posted this article on Thursday, February 21st, 2008. Is filed under Drupal, General News, Tutorial. If you liked what you read, please digg it by using the button on the left. Also, you can subscribe to my RSS feed and read more articles like this one.