Understand the installation process

- [Voiceover] Most people visiting websites don't realize…just how complicated things are behind the scenes.…As a Drupal site administrator, you'll have…to deal with some of that complexity…mostly when you install Drupal.…This video gives you an overview…of the main options available to you.…No matter how you install Drupal,…there are essentially three steps.…First, you put the Drupal files in the web directory.…Those are the files that you download from Drupal.org.…Second, you create a database…and that's usually down in MySQL, although,…it could be in other database programs.…

Third, you run Drupal's web-based installation script.…Now before you do any of this, you might…also need to configure the server…to accept Drupal and the database.…Those three steps are there, whether you install…on your home computer or on a server,…although some of those steps happen invisibly,…depending on how you install Drupal.…Let's talk first about installing on your home computer.…Throughout this course, we'll be using Acquia Dev Desktop,…