I have been aware of content management systems for some time. The big three players being Drupal, Joomla, and WordPress. I finally started tinkering with Drupal and set up a basic site on the web. Hosting providers, like GoDaddy, make it easy to install and use with their one-click installations. The problem that I immediately ran into was that I had no way of setting up a local installation on my Windows XP PC. I knew the .Net framework could process PHP, and experimented with that route for a while. But then I stumbled upon XAMPP. XAMPP is a package installation of MySQL, PHP, the phpMyAdmin interface, and Apache. It was exactly what I needed and can be found for free here XAMPP for Windows. The installation was relatively straightforward. The only trick was to change the port from 80 to 8080 as my IIS installation was already utilizing 80. Instructions to change your port can be found here change your XAMPP port. Afterwords, all I had to do was download and install Drupal, which you can get here Set up a Windows test server using XAMPP — look towards the bottom of the page and you will see a link for a “Simple install of Drupal on XAMPP”.
After all that was done I just backed-up my drupal files and database from my hosting provider to my local PC. I then unzipped(using FY-Zip) my drupal file system to my local drupal installation and through my phpMyAdmin interface executed the SQL create database script and presto! I had my site running locally.
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im gona try to remember this setup for you as its been gone for over two years, the top retour, which was a wrt54g i loaded dd-wrt (an opensource route firmware) and it was using nat to keep a seperate network from mine, its wan was connected to the swith as to have a network inside of a netwokr, the bottom retour was the pirmary retour for the primary network, its wan was connected to the moden and its lan port was connected to the switch giving the network access
I know that. Towards the end of your video, you mentioned a inerst module that you used to enable the streaming capabilities for the Xbox as a media extender As far as the whole switch thing, just wondering cause my router is crapping out, so I was looking at a switch to give me some more ports basically Modem > Gateway (either my old computer with some linux or a cheap router ie wrt45g) > Switch > AP. Think that will work? I have 6 wired devices and a slew of wireless ones..
I don’t have a Drupal website, alghtuoh I look forward to hearing more about them at BootCamp. But getting some basics of design that might apply to more than just Drupal is something that I could definitely get behind.
It state Due to major bug in the MySQL fetch functions in PHP 5.2.6 an inslatl of webSPELL is not possible. So you need to switch php versions from 5 to 4 in xampp. 1. Stop Apache 2.Go to Start/Control Panel/Administrative Tools/Services/ right click on Apache 2.2 and stop. Then go to Start/All Programs/Apache Friends/XAMPP/ and click on PHP Switch change PHP version from 5 to 4. Go back to the services section and start apache 2.2 you all done it will work for you.
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hello,i am new to drupal and trynig to build a new custom template in drupal7, can any one suggest me where can i find the tutorials for creating a new drupal theme (or template)..Thanks in advance
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