How to create RRR from scratch¶

• Install XAMMP - web stack including database and web server apache
  • Download relevant version from http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp-macosx.html#849
  • Run the installer
  • Open XAMPP manager application and start all the servers (MySQL, Apache and ProFTPD)

• Install drush - command line utility to manage Drupal websites
• Install git - command line utility to manage version control
• Install drupal and use git to track its repository
  • Navigate to your XAMMP/htdocs/ folder
  • Run
    

    drush dl drupal --package-handler=git_drupalorg
    

  • Rename the folder with the name of your site site_name

• Create new database
  • Run
    

    mysqladmin -u root -p create dbname
    

    
    where dbname is the name of the database and root is the user
  • set privileges following instructions in the INSTALL.dbtype file in the Drupal folder (where dbtype is the kind of database used - e.g. MySQL)

• Create new site
  • Point a browser to localhost/site_name
  • Follow the installation instructions
    At this point, you have a clean drupal website that can be accessed locally at http://localhost/site_name