How to install Drupal to your server is relatively the same as how to install WordPress to your server. You can use Fantastico to install Drupal or do it manually. I suggest you do it manually because managing Drupal will usually require you to access the backend of your website. It will be of great advantage to us if during installation, we can familiarize the directory structure of Drupal. We will follow the same steps in installing WordPress manually on manual installation of Drupal.

This post is a continuation of How to Install WordPress to Your Server. I suppose to create one post for this topic but it becomes too lengthy so I decided to break it into two parts. In the first part, we learn how to install WordPress with the use of Fantastico. You find out that with some few clicks, we successfully installed WordPress to the server. In this post, I will discuss how to install WordPress manually, that is, without the use of Fantastico.

Unable to import that large MySQL database into phpMyAdmin? There are reasons why you simply can't import your large MySQL database; browser timeout, server timeout, file size limit, and phpMyAdmin limit are the most common. These are real pains that cannot be avoided specially in shared web hosting. But stop pulling hairs, there are many proven ways to import your large database. In this discussion, I will only share two ways in which I have a first hand experience.

This "how to" is intended for beginners and for those who want to learn to set up a website but don't have a professional web server. This is also useful for web developers, but this post is not for them, in fact I learned this from them. Some developers used local web server to develop a website and upload it when finished. This is also used by web designers in creating a new theme. You do not need this if you have no desire to learn beyond HTML.

About local web server

Web server is a computer that runs a program that accepts hypertext transfer protocol (http). To make these things simple, try to write in the address bar of your browser the address "rtfverterra.com" without the quote and noticed that it is automatically prefixed with http and the one you typed turned into http://rtfverterra.com/. Local web server resides in your local machine (your computer) with or without internet connection. You can have your own website, but this website is not available in the internet. It has an address of http://localhost/yourwebsite; the "yourwebsite" in the address can be any name.