Our Prerequisites:      Mac OS X 10.6, Snow Leopard,  MySQL 5.x,  PHP 5.x,  Apache 2.x

Drupal is an excellent Content Management System. It's many very popular sites you're familiar with. For more information visit http://drupal.org/

This tutorial installs Drupal version 6.16 on a Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard Client.  Read through the whole thing first to make sure you have everything required for setup. Then go back and run the install. Your particular system has different setups and file paths then ours so make note of it..

Side note: I'm installing this on a new iMac that will act as a backup. I want to match the version that is on the server and do a test update before I update the site in production.

First, you'll want to make sure your system is configured appropriately to run a php based database content management system.

Second, you'll have to create a database for Drupal to use. In our case I used phpMyAdmin to create the database. It's free and easy to use.

Get a copy of  Drupal 6.16 for install:

In my case I keep a copy of drupal-6.16.tar.gz , copied it to my local machine and moved it to my Sites folder. I use Dreamweaver to grab the modules and themes to update those as well.

Install Drupal 6.16:

So, I created the database, copied drupal over to my Sites, double clicked it and de-compressed it.

Now I have a folder in my Sites called drupal-6.16     <-- I also re-named that folder to weBlog

Bring up a browser and Surf to that site. ie. http://localhost/~username/weBlog/

If you get a directory listing you haven't setup PHP to process index.php files.

You should get this install page.

Click "Install Drupal in English"

Next Page:

 

Got some errors so lets fix those..  The fastest way for me is to bring up a terminal window and do it at the command line. ** Note, we use tcsh so your prompt will be different if you use $bash

I also enable the root user account occasionally to make quick work of things.

prompt% cd Sites/weBlog/sites/default/
prompt% cp default.settings.php settings.php
prompt% su root
prompt# chown www settings.php
prompt# chgrp www settings.php

prompt# mkdir files
prompt# chown -R www files
prompt# chgrp -R www files

prompt# exit
 

Click on "Try Again"

Worked.. Setup up your database and then the Main Site info page and you're done.

 

Make sure you we have a  .htaccess file..

 

All done. Good Luck.

Originally all howto's, config, setups, and supporting documentation was researched and compiled so we could find working solutions for our own particular environment. We primarily run and develop FreeBSD 7.x, Mac OS X 10.6 Clients and servers. If you had any issues or questions please visit the forums.

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