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 7.0 on a Mac OS X 10.6.7 Snow Leopard desktop.  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 Client Machine that will act as a backup to our live drupal based sites.

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.

Download Drupal 7.0 for install:

Browse to: http://drupal.org and click the download link.
In my case I downloaded drupal-7.0.tar.gz , copied it to my local machine and moved it to my Sites folder and double clicked on it to decompress it.

Install Drupal 7.0:

So, now I have a drupal-7.0 folder in my Sites folder.

Now surf to that site. ie. http://localhost/~username/drupal-7.0

 

Standard Defaults are fine. Click Save and Continue.

Click "Install Drupal in English"

Next Page

 

 

Got some errors so lets fix those..  ** Note, we use tcsh so your prompt will be different if you use $bash

I also enabled my root user account to make quick work of things and then disable it..  you could just sudo the commands.

prompt% cd Sites/drupal-7.0/sites/default

prompt% sudo mkdir files
prompt% sudo chown -R www files
prompt% sudo chgrp -R www files

prompt% sudo cp default.settings.php settings.php
prompt% sudo chown www settings.php
prompt% sudo chgrp www settings.php
 

Click on "proceed with the installation."

Worked..

Set the main settings to your Site info page and you're done.

I had to edit my .htaccess to enable Clean URLs

I'll revisit this a couple times to add any details if necessary.