Quick and easy WAMP and Drupal 7.

x install on Windows 7 So you want a simple server on Windows 7 to create great Drupal web site. Here is the quick and easy method using WAMP. 1.) Download WAMP from http://www.wampserver.com/en/ and follow the standard install 2.) Download Drupal from http://drupal.org/ , click get started and then download the latest Drupal 7.x. Take note of the downloads folder. 3.) Launch WAMP Start > All Programs > WampServer > start WampServer 4.) You will notice a W on the right side of the task bar. . It is Red because the services and web site are offline. 5.) Left-click the W > Start All Services. The W should cycle Red Yellow Green. 6.) Left Click the W > Put Online. The W goes Green Yellow Green. 7.) Left Click the W > phpMyAdmin 8.) If for some reason the page does not load, try http://127.0.0.1/phpmyadmin/ . Note to self, localhost is the same thing as 127.0.0.1 (IPV4) and ::1 (IPv6). In the IP world this is called the loopback address. 9.) Click Databases on the top bar 10.) Type the name of your database. For Example drupal. They dont tell you this on the You Tube videos, but you can find the login and password to this database by clicking privileges next to the name of the database you created. The default is root. Take note of that for later. You can change this now or do it later. 11.) Find the Drupal .zip file you downloaded earlier. 12.) Where ever you installed WAMP the directory structure should be something like c:\wamp. 13.) Look for the WWW directory and unzip the drupal file there. Example c:\wamp\www 14.) Once extracted, rename the drupal file to something simple, like drupal. You will have c:\wamp\www\drupal once done. 15.) Go back to localhost. In the browser address bar simply type http://localhost 16.) Under Your Projects, look for your new folder. For example Drupal. Click that. 17.) Follow the installation for the Standard install. For experts, you can go Minimal. Click Save and Continue. I recommend standard for beginners. 18.) Set your language. 19.) Under Database name, enter the database you created on phpMyAdmin. For example drupal. Username is root. No password needed (unless you set one). Let the drupal finish install. 20.) Enter your site name, like My First Drupal Site. Enter whatever email address; it doesnt matter. Enter the ADMIN username. And another stinking address (fake of course). Put a password you will always remember. Set all of the country/time info and then click Save and Continue 21.) Click Visit your new site. Remember not to get frustrated from this point; the Drupal community has some great support. Visit http://drupal.org regularly.