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These steps make up the quick “get-up-and-running” installation of Drupal, targeted at an audience comfortable using a command line interface. A more comprehensive installation guide is available from Drupal.org.

Note: As of this writing the default ubuntu of distribution of Drupal is too old, at version 7.12 - that will not work.

Download and place drupal files

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Note
titleInformation concerning "settings.php" file
NOTE:

Some web hosting environments have PHP and Apache run by the same user. In these instances, Drupal 7.x may attempt to execute the copy and priviledge privilege adjustments of the "settings.php" file. If this happens, skip directly to creating a database for Drupal. If you get errors about your "settings.php" file when you "run the install script" in your browser, you will need to manually copy and adjust priviledges of the "settings.php" file.

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