Now that my archive is downloaded, I’m going to go ahead and place it on my desktop. We are on a Windows machine, we’re going to go ahead and click Zip, and save our download. So if you’re on a Windows machine you might want to use Zip and if you’re on a Linux of Mac OS, you might want to use a tar ball. We’re going to need to decompress these on our local machine. Now we’ll see that we have 2 different archives that we can download. I’m going to click on the Download Drupal 7 button, and we’re going to scroll down to the downloads area. To do that we go to, click on Download and Extend. The first step is to download core Drupal. Let’s look at how we can add that to our DAMP Stack. Of course we are going to use core Drupal. Acquia Drupal is a special distribution of Drupal that’s added several things beyond what core Drupal offers. Now what you’re seeing now is Acquia Drupal. We can tell that by looking at the URL, where it says "local hosts." Acquia Drupal To see it, we simply click "Go to My Sites," and now we see that we have a Drupal site web page that is being generated off of our local web server that we just added to our PC. The installer has even created our first Drupal website. Now it’s done! We now have a complete web server running on our local PC, robust enough to run Drupal. Now that the installer has completed its work, we can launch the Stack Control Panel, and click finish. Click next. We want to verify the information that we’re going to be using, and now we’re are going to start our install. The last thing I want to do is put in an email address I’ll just put in an example one for this tutorial. So I am just going to use some simple usernames and passwords. But because we’re just running on our local computer, we don’t have any real security threats. You would not want to use such simple passwords and usernames on a production server. For this, I’m just going to leave it simple because it’s running on my local machine. Under username I’m going to use admin, password, admin, confirm of admin. We’re not actually going to be using this website, but for the sake of consistency, I’m going to go and put some information here anyway. Here it’s going to ask for some default information for your main website. Click Next, switch ports to we want our web server listening to, and click next. Now it’s asking us where we want to do the install. So it gives you links to each one of these licenses, because each one of these is an open source license. They’re pretty liberal, so I’m just going to go ahead and accept it, and click next. What’s interesting about this particular page is, instead of being one long license agreement, like you’ll see in typical software, it’s actually installing several pieces of software. Go ahead and click next, and we see the list of software applications the stack installer is going to put on our computer. For the most part, we are just going to leave the defaults, although if you’re an expert user you can change them if you want to. Next, the Stack Installer is going to take us through several options. Now that the DAMP Stack installer is finished downloading, I can click to launch. Just click download, save my file, and now it will start downloading. Since I’m using a Windows machine, I’m going to go ahead and use the Stack Installer for Windows. If this is your first time downloading a DAMP Stack, I recommend using the Stack Installer for Windows or the Stack Installer for Mac OS. Here we can see there are several different versions that we can install. The first thing that we need to do is download the DAMP Stack. So while the demo in this video will be on a Windows PC, the steps are nearly identical on other platforms. This package works on Windows, Mac and even Linux and Unix machines. But, to get started we’re going to use a simple solution that is turned specifically for Drupal, Acquia’s DAMP Stack. True power users will even use virtual machines such as VirtualBox to install a complete server class, LAMP Stack can accurately mimic various production servers. There are many different packages for doing this, such as: WAMP for Windows PC, MAMP on a Mac, or the multi OS capable XAMPP. This will effectively turn your computer into a web server capable of running Drupal. Since personal computers are not web servers, the first thing we need to do is install a suitable web server stack on your PC. In this video I’m going to show you how to install Drupal on your local laptop or desktop computer.
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