This video shows how to install Drupal locally by using the Acquia Drupal stack installer. This is different from my previous localhost install video which required separate installations of Drupal and Wampserver. Acquia's installer is an all-in-one package that installs Acquia Drupal, MySQL, PHP and PhpMyAdmin. Acquia Drupal is a Drupal distribution that comes packaged with many useful contributed modules including CCK, Views and PathAuto.
Note: Click the 'full screen' icon (to the left of the volume control) in order to watch online at full 1024x768 resolution.
This video shows how to install Drupal to a localhost on a Windows based computer. Wampserver is used to create the proper environment.
UPDATE: Be aware that if you install the latest version of Wampserver and combine it with Drupal 6.13 or above you will likely get the following error. Deprecated: Function ereg() is deprecated in C:\wamp\www\drupal\includes\file.inc on line 902
The error is caused by the fact that the newer version of Wampserver utilizes version 5.3 of PHP and the latest version of Drupal does not support PHP 5.3. You can remedy the issue by installing an earlier version of Wampserver that has the 5.2 branch of PHP. Wampserver 2.0h (found at this link) includes PHP 5.2.9-2. Another option is to use another stack installer such as the Acquia Drupal Stack Installer.
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