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Getting a Drupal site up fast - Drupal Tutorial
From the course: Drupal 7 Essential Training
Getting a Drupal site up fast
You've probably looked at the dozens of videos in this course and said, "Whoa, wait a second. I just want to get my site up." This video gives you only the most bare instructions to get a Drupal site running, and then tells you which videos to watch for more help. There are basically three steps. First, we will download and install the Acquia Drupal Stack installer, also known as DAMP. Second, we will download and import core Drupal-- that's the Drupal you get from Drupal.org--into that DAMP. Third, we'll run Drupal's browser-based installer. And that's it. Then we'll be ready to add content and administer our site. Now, along the way I'm going to do this very, very quickly--and in fact, I've already downloaded some of these files and uncompressed them. If you have any problems with these steps, see the Computer Literacy courses by Garrick Chow, also on lynda.com. But let's get started. Our first stop is at acquia.com/downloads. Here we grab the DAMP by looking over here for the…
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