Installing Drupal On A Personal Computer Tutorial

In this tutorial we will show you how to install Drupal on local desktops and laptops. We will show you the simplest way to get up and running quickly, with no server admin skills required using Acquia's DAMP Stack Installer.

The tutorial will walks through installing Drupal on a Windows 7 computer, but the steps are nearly identical for the Mac OS and *NIX workstations. Local installations are the best way to develop and play with Drupal. In less than 10 minutes, you will have your local computer setup to run as many Drupal sites as you like.

[kgroth]

Thank you for the great tutorial! I watched a few Drupal videos on YouTube and they were not helpful enough to get started until I watched your video. Launching Acquia was the key to starting Drupal.

[ccdeb]

Hey Tom, Never mind the question I asked. I followed step by step and realized the acquia enables me to install/run multi distro/websites...keep up the great tutorials! I am following along on each of them! :o)

[gianluigixxxx]

the best video tutorial on drupal i ve seen so far

[TPINC]

Really appreciate the video tutorials they're straight to the point and offer excellent advice. Looking forward to seeing more! ^_^

[YaraNeeDennis]

THANK YOU SO MUCH... You are a very good instructor

[ccdeb]

You are a great instuctor- just one question here. I am very new to drupal and have been following these tutorials from your website. I was in process of downloading acquia dev but noticed it is a "distribution" my goal is to use the "group deals" distribution so am I right that I will not be able to use both together? PS Thanks for the portable tool kit!

[RickReezi]

so lets say i would want to add in a wordpress into damp, do i use the import button or new button?

[OldSkoolLegend]

Ahhhh....so one needs to use an AMP stack to simulate a server on their computer. ok....so we are talking about using drupal on your computer to make changes to your website and then uploading the changes to the live site. so how do we do that? how do we keep two sites running so that we can test out any changes to the simulation site before making those changes also on the live site?