This version goes over each step in more detail, and includes screenshots.
Download the core Drupal codebase from http://drupal.org/project/drupal.
Extract the codebase on your local machine.
Note
The Drupal codebase (and all modules and themes) are compressed into a tarball, or a file that is first tarred, and then gzipped. Such compressed files end in
.tar.gz
.On Macs and Linux machines,
tar.gz
files can be extracted automatically using tools that come preinstalled with the operating system. On PC's, you can use 7-zip, an open-source compression utility available at http://www.7-zip.org.In your extracted codebase, navigate to the
sites/default
directory. This directory contains one file:default.settings.php
.
Make a copy of this file, and name the copy settings.php.