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Before You Begin Installing Drupal for Drupal 7

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Prior to installing Drupal, it’s important to make sure that you can actually do so, and understand a bit about how Drupal is structured. The first lesson provides a checklist of Drupal’s requirements, and also highlights important things in the Drupal file structure that are worth knowing before diving into the installation process. We also explain and take a quick look at how you can use Drupal to run multiple sites from the code base, known in Drupal as a multisite installation.

Additional resources

Using Drupal, 2nd edition

Drupal installation requirements

XAMPP cross-platform web server

WampServer for Windows

MAMP for Mac

Drupalize.Me Guide: Using Drupal Book by O'Reilly Media