Installing Drupal

Drupal is a free and open-source content-management framework written in PHP.  Typically it is used as a back-end framework for making Web sites.

Let's see how to install Drupal on your computer.

Step 1

Go to the following link and download Drupal 7.36 packge.  It's a zip file.

https://www.drupal.org/download

Step 2

Create a database in the localhost -Xampp server to install Drupal.

I named that DataBase as drupaldb.

Give privilages to the database appropriately (That is give a username and a password as you wish).

Step 3

Create a new folder called drupal inside C:\Xampp\htdocs.

Then copy the downloaded zip file to the above folder.

Now, extract it and rename it as drupal.

Step 4

Add the following line of code to this  location sites/default/settings.php  to avoid  the error "maximum execution time of 30 seconds exceeded in line ****(some line No) in database.inc"

ini_set('max_execution_time', 0);

Step 5

Type localhost/drupal in your browser. Go to the drupal folder.

Now you will get this web page
Continue things as follows.

Select and installation profile.

I have selected the standard profile.  

Select the language

     

Configure the database

 Supply information about database that you created.

 Pay attention to the step 4 if you  receive an error about exceeding maximum execution time.

Configure Site 

In this process you have to submit a valid email address to the site email address box. Also you should provide the username and password .

Now you have installed Drupal. :D