Installing Drupal on Linux with Apache Webserver

To install and run Drupal, your web server must meet certain minimum requirements.

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
WEB SERVER
Apache

DATABASE

Drupal 6: MySQL 4.1 or higher, PostgreSQL 7.1,
Drupal 7: MySQL 5.0.15 or higher with PDO, PostgreSQL 8.3 or higher with PDO, SQLite 3.3.7 or higher

PHP

Drupal 6: PHP 4.4.0 or higher (5.2 recommended).
Drupal 7: PHP 5.2.5 or higher (5.3 recommended).
Drupal 8: PHP 5.4 or higher.

Phpmyadmin

The user interface for creating a database

STEP 1: DOWNLOAD AND EXTRACT DRUPAL

Download the needed version of Drupal from https://drupal.org/download.

Move the downloads into the web server’s document root or your public HTML directory and extract it

STEP 2: CREATE THE DATABASE

Browse the URL localhost/phpmyadmin

Sign in to phpMyAdmin as the root user.
Create database forex:-drupal6

STEP 3: CREATE THE SETTINGS.PHP FILE

Your Drupal download comes with a sample configuration file at sites/default /default.settings.php.

Copy the default.settings.php file and save the new file as settings.php in the same directory.

-change file permission settings.php to read/write with chmod 644 settings.php
-continue the installation.
-after all, installation finished, change file permission settings.php to read-only with chmod 755 settings.php
Create a directory named ‘files’ to includes all uploaded files in sites/default/files

-chmod 777 sites/default/files

to make files directory readable and writeable

STEP 4: RUN THE INSTALLATION SCRIPT

To run the install script point your browser to the base URL of your website.

The base URL is defined in your Web server configuration file and is specific to the document root where you placed your Drupal files. If you have installed Drupal on a Web server this will likely be a domain name, such as http://example.com. If you have installed Drupal on your local computer, this URL might be http://localhost.

Drupal 6

http://localhost/example.com

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