How to install Drupal
Download Drupal and set up document root
Section titled “Download Drupal and set up document root”Download Drupal from drupal.org. After downloading, the resulting zip file should be in your C:\Downloads folder. Unzip this drupal.zip file – you should now see a C:\Downloads\Drupal folder. Move the contents of this folder to C:\MAMP\htdocs.
Create database
Section titled “Create database”Click on Open Start Page, then on the phpMyAdmin link. Create a database in phpMyAdmin and call it “drupal”.
Run Drupal installation
Section titled “Run Drupal installation”Go to Open Start Page, click on My Website on the top menu bar – you should now see the Drupal installation process begin.
The following fields are the default for the MAMP MySQL installation: username “root”, password “root”, database host “localhost”, port 8889.
Complete the Drupal installation process. The “admin” user is the administrator for this Drupal site. You can use an administrative username other than “admin”.
