(Tutorial) Build A Digg Clone With Drigg For Drupal - Part 2 (Installing And Configuring Drupal And Drigg)

Tutorial : Build A Digg Clone With Drigg For Drupal - Part 2
(Installing And Configuring Drupal And Drigg)

Due to several work related issues it has taken longer than expected for me to publish this second part in our “Build A Digg Clone With Drigg For Drupal” tutorial, but the wait is over as this is the second part you are now reading :). Here in Part two we are going to go through the process of installing Drupal and the Drigg related modules along with all the configuration setting you will need to set for the system to operate as it should. We always think Pictures can be better than words for new users to any system so this tutorial will have screen shots of each step as we go, so lets begin.

First of all you should now have all the modules we directed you to in part one of this tutorial set here “Build A Digg Clone With Drigg For Drupal - Part 1 What You Will Need“.

Installing The Drupal Core

We are going to take it that anyone performing this tutorial will already have elements of their site like a domain name and ftp configured.

The first task is to create a mysql database titled whatever you like, we will call ours driggtutorial for example purposes throughout this article. You can create a new database in your web hosting control panel usually with phpMyadmin or a utility similar.

Login to you FTP and upload the contents of the Drupal 5 package to your sever, when the drupal files have all been uploaded it’s now time to visit your domain name to access the drupal installer.

Fill in the fields in the Drupal installer page.

Database Name = the name if the myswl database you created.

Database Username = The username used to access your created database.

Database Password = The password for your created database.

Now click Advanced Options, the only part you may need to change here depending on your hosting enviroment is Database Host.

Click Save Configuration and Drupal should now be installed.

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