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Checking Drupal's requirements

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Checking Drupal's requirements

Here's the brief speech that describes Drupal from a technical point of view. It's a set of computer programs that accesses a database and delivers information through a web server. That statement implies the three parts that you need to run Drupal; you need a way to run those programs, a database and a web server. The devil is in the details though, so here they are. First, there are Drupal's stated requirements. To run the programs, you need the PHP programming language installed. Specifically, it has to be version 5.2 or higher to run Drupal 7. Secondly, you need a database program. MySQL is preferred, but others are possible. And you can read the details at that URL that you see in front of you. That's drupal.org/node/310069. Thirdly, you need a web server. Again, there is a strong preference for Apache, although you could run it with a different sort of web server as well. Now those are the stated requirements for Drupal. There are also some other requirements which are not often…

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