The following steps will get you up and running with your Drupal site. This quickstart version gives an overview of the steps required for most setups. A more detailed version follows immediately after this section.
Once you are familiar with the setup process, installing a Drupal site takes between 5 and 10 minutes.
Download the core Drupal codebase from http://drupal.org/project/drupal.
Extract the codebase on your local machine.
In your extracted codebase, navigate to the
sites/defaultdirectory. This directory contains one file:default.settings.php. Make a copy of this file, and name the copysettings.php.Using phpMyAdmin, create a database on your server. Write down the name of the database.
Using phpMyAdmin, create a user on the database using the following SQL statement:
GRANT SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE, CREATE, DROP, INDEX, ALTER,ON databasename.*TO 'username'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'password';
You will have created the databasename in Step...