In this chapter, we will cover:
Installing Drupal
Installing Drupal distributions
Installing modules and themes
Setting up the site search
Creating a multi-site Drupal installation
Throughout this chapter, we will explore the process of setting up a Drupal website. We will see how to install the official Drupal 7 release and also how to install third-party Drupal distributions which are preconfigured in a variety of ways.
Following the installation, we will move on to the installation of third-party modules and then how your site can be configured to provide a site search form.
The chapter culminates with a recipe on setting up Drupal multi-site where two Drupal sites are configured to run from the same core files.