Install Drupal on your Windows desktop computer using WAMP Server

Installing Drupal 7 on your Windows 7 Desktop Computer:

Step 1 - Go to http://www.drupal.org/ and download & open the latest version of drupal. It should come in either a *.zip or a *.tar.gz compressed folder.

Step 2 - Go to http://www.wampserver.com and download the latest version of WAMP Server. WAMP stands for Windows, Apache, MySQL, and PHP (phpmyadmin).

Step 3 - Install WAMP Server. Launch it after it has finished its install. Click the system tray icon that appears, and click "Start All Services"

Step 4 - Click the WAMP server icon again in the system tray. Click on "localhost" - This should open a new browser window and take you to a WAMP server page. At the bottom of the page click on "phpmyadmin" and login as root. Create a new database and remember the name, don't forget this will be case sensitive.

Step 5 - Open your file manager and navigate to C:\wamp\www - This is the folder that WAMP stores it's html and website files. Create a new directory here. You can call it anything you'd like. I called mine Drupal

Step 6 - Copy the contents of the Drupal compressed folder you downloaded to this directory. Once this is finished, click reload in your browser. Under "My Projects" there should be a link to the directory you just created. Click that.

Step 7 - After clicking on your directory under My Projects, you should be forwarded to a Drupal install page. Remember to put in your database name (that you created in phpmyadmin) exactly how you did before. It's case sensitive. Your login will be "root". You will not need a password if you did not create one for the database.

Step 8 - Wait for the install to happen, and follow along with the steps. ie put in information about the site when it asks. When it is finished, the drupal site should be up and running!

Thanks for tuning in!
**As a side note, this will also work for Windows Vista, and Windows XP.

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[mathhew26]

Excellent tutorial! installed easily with this assistance... sorted! 

[cdntechonline]

@mathhew26 glad i could help

[AmpNRGProductions]

i keep getting an error on wamp server when i click put online/offline

I am using Windows 7 btw and cannot connect to localhost

[cdntechonline]

@AmpNRGProductions hmmmmm you didn't even tell me what the error is... i'm going to guess the error is probably a 'human error' - but i can't provide tech support. microsoft, drupal and whatnot provide forums and tech support lines to sort that shit out, yo.

[TOXICavengers]

Hi

I received this error at the setup page.

Failed to connect to your database server. The server reports the following message: SQLSTATE[42000] [1044] Access denied for user ''@'localhost' to database 'drupal'.

[cdntechonline]

@TOXICavengers sounds like an incorrect database name.. check your spelling, password, and the case sensitive data base name. sorry can't be offical tech support.

[cdntechonline]

@dirtpaint1 whoa whoa whoa! this is for development purposes dumbass. by no means is what i've shown you, server grade. for christ sake - windows isn't even licensed for hosting. this is for development purposes. shyt son.

[dirtpaint1]

Ya make sure you put the server online before you open localhost.

[SilkonSavan]

I struggled to install until I found this tutorial. Thank you cdntechonline!!!

[stekkingerj]

Great tutorial. But after I completed the first 2 steps on the Drupal installation page and I got an error message "variable already exist" on the verify requirements step. My page froze I can not complete the instal what do I do?

[randompretender]

I'm notoriously bad at thanking people who give input online, but I'm so psyched to have gotten this working. Thanks so much!