If you have friends or colleagues who have put up their own site, you may have heard them mention Drupal. While looking at existing sites, trying to decide what type of design you want, you may have seen some sites that have been created using it. All of this may have left you wondering, what is Drupal?  In short, it is a free content management system. If you are among the millions of people who are looking for a way to create a web site quickly and easily without any technical knowledge, you are in luck. This platform is ready in moments and is scalable, stable and secure.

What is Drupal? It is a way to quickly and easily organize, update and present a web site using modules, or nodes. The software is ready to use once the download is complete. It is appropriate for all users, from the novice to the technically inclined to the experienced developer. Modules designed to help manage content are part of the core system. They include templating, polls, and threaded comments. Templates enable you to customize the design elements of your site. Polls and threaded comments allow visitors to your web site interact with you, either by answering poll questions or participating in a discussion.

What is Drupal? It is a feature rich platform that allows you to personalize the content and presentation of your web site by defining your preferences. Core modules enable you to control the content, while others allow you to designate who can make changes to the site. The administration portion of the software tracks the changes by user, date and type of change. It helps you manage everyday tasks such as web site registration and profiles. Sites that are created using this adaptable framework can be changed switching modules out or by adding plug-ins that enhance functionality.

What is Drupal? It is an open-source application, written in PHP to enable it to create dynamic web sites. This makes the platform powerful, flexible and reliable. It is available for anyone who wishes to create modules to enhance its functionality and it is free to all users. The community of developers that use Drupal is extensive. As a result there is detailed documentation and handbooks available. The forums are a wonderful opportunity for you to interact with other users and to have your questions answered by others with practical usage experience.

If you want to have a web site, you will need a hosting service to make it available to web searchers. One of the most inexpensive options is a shared server web hosting service, also referred to as a derive host or a virtual hosting service. When using this kind of service, your site will be on a server that is shared with several other sites. Because of this “sharing,” the monthly fee is more cost effective than using other types of hosting services, such as dedicated services or colocations. The list of features offered through a virtual hosting service is often extensive.

Although the features may vary from one shared server web hosting company to another, the system administration is always included. This is a positive point for those who do not have a system administrator, but a deterrent for those who need more control over their site and their server. This type of web hosting service is not recommended for clients who do a significant amount of development. The standard applications needed for a web site to run efficiently are pre-loaded onto the server. As a result, there are very few client requirements for the site to be active.

In addition to the software, a shared server web hosting service is responsible the security updates and maintenance necessary to ensure the site remains up and running. There are thousands of hosting companies in the United States. Some are large, sophisticated companies, while others are small startups. They all have their own combination of control systems and web interfaces that are offered as part of the service. Name-based and IP based implementation methods are used to accomplish shared hosting. For name-based methods, also known as IP hosting, there are many sites located on a single server with one IP address.

If using the IP-based method, each site has a different IP address. The advantage to using this method is that dedicated IP uses its own SSL certificate, instead of sharing as in the name-based method. Shared server web hosting services are not for everyone. If you have a personal or home-based business web site that does not require a lot of space, bandwidth or customizations, it may be the right option for you. It is cost effective and does not require any technical training. It is often available for your site within 24 hours of the order being placed and they take responsibility for the everyday maintenance and upgrades.

Technology costs that include server space, bandwidth and management fees have dropped significantly in the last few years. As a result, you can get reliable, affordable web hosting services for less than ten dollars a month. Most hosting packages include at least one free domain name registration. They also offer a minimum 30-day trial period, so if you don’t like their service, your initial payment is refunded. All it costs is your time. There are thousands of hosting services in the United States alone, which means you will have plenty of options to choose from. However, all hosting services are created equal.

Some affordable web hosting services will provide you with 24/7 technical support and respond to questions and concerns quickly. Others may respond by email, within 24 hours if you call Monday through Friday during regular business hours. Take some time to decide what features and service levels you need before selecting a service. It is not uncommon for companies to have plans with several features bundled together. They usually offer a variety of data transfer speeds, bandwidths, email attachment limits and payment options. Ask them about the requirements for upgrading your plan. Some will be able to do it “on the fly.”

Others affordable web hosting services will need 24 hours for the change to be complete.

Upgrading capabilities are very important if you are expecting the site and its traffic to grow. If you are searching for a service for your personal site, it should offer spam protection and backups as part of its standard features. For the inexperienced site owner, they often offer a web site builder option. This is perfect for those who are trying to set up their site, but are inexperienced. Some hosting services cater to the novice web site builder while others focus on customers who have experience and technical skills.

Those who concentrate on professional developers will expect their customers to be able to answer technical questions when they call for support. As a result, you may notice a difference in service levels. Affordable web hosting services that cater to businesses will offer an extensive list of options from increased bandwidths and storage space to dedicated servers and VPS hosting. Comprehensive 365-day support, multiple web site services and root access are all included in the best plans. Research the options and read customer reviews to ensure you get the plan that suits your needs and budget.

There are many types of web hosting, from the most inexpensive shared hosting services to the more expensive server colocations and dedicated web hosting services. Some options may suit your needs better than others. There are thousands of hosting companies in the United States alone. Before selecting a provider it is important to analyze your needs and conduct a review of web hosting options that are available. This will ensure the service you select offers the features you need. The Internet has broken down the barriers related to physical location, so you can have your site hosted on any server, anywhere in the world.

Choosing a provider can be an overwhelming task. As you begin a review of web hosting services, there are some things you need consider. The first thing is to decide how much space you need on the server. If your site is mostly text, you will not need much space. However, if it will have embedded videos, photos or other storage intensive items, you will need more. If you want your content to expand, then you will need more space that you can grow into. It is important that the hosting service you choose has different space allotments to choose from.

There is nothing more frustrating than typing a web address into your browser and getting a message stating that the server is down. This could result in a loss of revenue if you are selling products and services online. While you a doing a review of web hosting companies, find out how reliable their service is. Also ask about their level of security. This is important to protecting your data from technological “break-ins.” A slow web site is almost as frustrating as a site that is unavailable. Most services have packages containing a variety of bundled services. They usually have the option of different data transfer speeds.

The amount of speed you need depends greatly on the type of content contained on the site. A review of web hosting services should also include their customer service levels. Is their technical support team available 24/7, or only during regular business hours. What is their standard response time? Is it one hour or 24? People who conduct business online daily rely on their web site to stay in touch with current and potential clients. With so many options to choose from, it is crucial to select a hosting service that has a reputation for reliably and customer service.

follow the following steps:

* Please you first backup all important data such as articles, etc., with your wordpress Data Export from the menu Setting – Export page by clicking the Download Export file in the above Option, then stored the data safely.

* Then move on to your hosting root you please backup the Uploads files in a zip file, compresses and then download and you save (this is your important files such as image, video, files that you uploaded when posting an article or writing a page.

* Still in the root, you please focus on the backup data such as (plugins Themes wp-content/plugins) and (wp-content/themes) please compress, download and store safely.

* And please remove your old hosting account and move the focus to your new hosting account to install WordPress via Cpanel or Install WordPress Manually it’s up to your willingness.

* When you finish Install WordPress on your new hostingg account, please go to the root of your hosting you please upload data such as your Uploads folder (wp-content/uploads), (plugins and themes wp-content/plugins) (wp-content/themes ) then ekstraks all these files in their respective places.

* When you finish your data extract please go to your wordpress admin and go into the Settings menu select Import and please you upload data that you had download before from old hosting.

* When you finish importing your data please re-setup all your plugins and themes.

Happy Trying :)

Before using free web hosting services that you need to know first about the ns or name servers. Name servers are owned by web hosting, either free or paid. This server name must be associated with your domain name.

Cpanel is usually the domain name you have the option to change the name of this server. Fill in the name server (ns) with the name servers your web hosting. For example, if you use a web hosting 000webhost.com you, then the name servers they are dns1.000webhost.com and dns2.000webhost.com.

Each setting changes take ns to a maximum of 48 hours for these changes can be felt. This means that the Internet may take up to 48 hours to update your website settings. If you changed at this time, your website may still be accessible, because the Internet have not updated your settings. If not accessible, so just wait. For free web hosting, there are some free web hosting providers that provide the server name, if they provide information about the server name, then free webhosting is may be used for your own domain, meaning you can buy a domain name and use the free web hosting as your hosting . I discuss this is the providing 000webhost.com free hosting and professional. But there also are not providing information about the server name.

There are steps (to order) that must be endured to get free domain name and free web hosting. First you must register a domain name used, either free domain name and a paid, after it, just looking for web hosting. Use your domain name to get web hosting. Web hosting parties will be setting up for hosting your orders leading to your domain. After the usual party will notify the web hosting name server address them. If not ask directly to the support. After getting the address of the server name, setting option (in your domain Cpanel) your domain name server with a web hosting name server had just been given earlier. With free hosting and free domain you can not do much, let’s say wordpress install, build classifieds site using WordPress and building web applications with AJAX. And more ..

Free domain name and free web hosting is a free service, you do not spend any money to get all of that. You must comply with the TOS (Terms of Service) that they provide, once you are judged against, then you will be at ering sanctions, for example got banned. And may you will lose data.

Here are the steps in the installation of drupal 6.

* Download the file from drupal.org drupal core

Drupal 6 version which can be downloaded in drupal.org when this tutorial was made 6.14 drupal. When you download it on drupal.org, you’ll get the files to install drupal form:

drupal-6.14.tar.gz

These files are compressed files tar.gz. form You must open it first. You can use some software, for example you can use 7-zip. To download, please access http://www.7-zip.org/ URL address. Unpack/unzip/decompress the file, and put the folder drupal-6.14 to location c:/xampp/htdocs/

* Change the name of the folder drupal-6.14

Rename the folder drupal-6.14 a site name that you want, for example, converted into drupalku. Change the name of this folder will affect the site’s URL address in the localhost when you will access via a browser. URL address at localhost to http://localhost/drupalku/

* Create a database drupal

The next step before the installation Drupal 6 is, create a new database to accommodate data of drupal 6 installation. To make it, you can use phpmyadmin which is available when you create a localhost with XAMPP. Open your browser, then access http://localhost/phpmyadmin/. A little additional explanation, there are some inherent database when making the localhost. The names of the default database comes from XAMPP installation you can see on the left like phpmyadmin, mysql and others.

To create a new database, look at the window on the right. There was a small form with writing on it Create New Database. Please enter the name of your database, for example ari_drupalku. The dropdown menu next to his right, let remain as the default setting of Collation. Then click the Create button.

If successful, you will be taken to a new database pages that have been so. You can see on the left, ari_drupalku database name already exists, but the numbers in parentheses 0 indicate that there is no database or data tables in it. This database will automatically fill data when Drupal 6 installation process is run.

* The last step is to prepare the settings.php file to the database and drupal files in XAMPP can be connected. Go back to your windows explorer, then go to the c:\xampp\htdocs\drupalku\sites\default\.
In this folder you will find a folder named files and a file named default.settings.php. We will create a settings.php file by copying the files default.settings.php. Way, open default.settings.php file with notepad .  file right click Default.settings.php and select open with notepad. Once open, click the File menu, and select Save As. Change the name default.settings.php to settings.php, and then below it, change the form save as type to All Files. After that press the Save button. Settings.php file is created and automatically placed in the right place, which is located at the default.settings.php.

* Edit settings.php

Now we edit it to customize the database name and the name of the site URL address that we will create. As I mentioned in the first sentence, there are two parts that you need to change in this settings.php file.

1. Enter the user name, password and database name

This step aims to file the installation of drupal 6 can connect to the database that you created earlier. To make it easier, we will use the Find facility in this Notepad editor. Put your cursor at the beginning of this text file by clicking on the top left corner before the <? Php (This was done so that the search can be done from the beginning of text). Then press on your keyboard Ctrl + F or can be done by selecting the Edit menu in Notepad, Edit> Find.

Enter the word $db_url = ‘mysql://username:password@localhost/databasename’; and press the Find Next button. When you click the Find Next button, you will find the results of the first text. The first text was hoping to let it go, because this text was not to be changed. Text/first script serves as an example, comes from drupal. Click Find Next once again. Once found, close the box Find. This section we will edit. Text scrupt is located adjacent second (could also above if you use an editor other than Notepad) $db_prefix. Edit this text from

$db_url = ‘mysql://username:password@ localhost/databasename’; ———> $db_url = ‘mysql://root:@localhost/ari_drupalku;

Here’s a little explanation of what you change:

* Username -> root (user name for the default database of XAMPP installation is the root.)
* Password -> (the password for the default database of XAMPP installation is not using a password, emptied it, remember, vacated, no spaces).
* Databasename -> ari_drupalku (name of the database you created earlier included here.

When finished changed, press the button on your keyboard Ctrl + S to save the changes, or you can do through the menu with the click Notepad File menu> Save.
# Enter the URL address

The second part will be changed in settings.php file is a URL address. Way as the first step when the change / enter a user name, password and database above. Put your cursor at the beginning of this text file with the way in the upper left corner or before <? Php. Then press on your keyboard Ctrl + F or can also be done by selecting the menu in Notepad, Edit> Find.

Enter the word “# $ base_url = ‘http://www.example.com’; // NO trailing slash!”. Once found, close the search results box, and edit the http://www.example.com -> http://localhost/drupalku
Then press the button on your keyboard Ctrl + S to save the changes, or you can do through the menu with the click Notepad File menu> Save.
Done. Files are finished editing settings.php.

* Installing drupal 6 via a browser

Drupal file is ready, the database is ready, it’s time to install drupal via a browser. Open your browser and enter the URL address http://localhost/drupalku/install.php

Entering the drupal 6 installation process via a browser, the first time you will be faced with the display language options, select only Install Drupal in English.

Wait a minute, the database installation process is running.

The next display is the Configure Site

Here is an explanation of each section:

By default, the file permissions will be changed settings.php during the installation of drupal via the browser, it’s for security reasons. All necessary changes to. / Sites / default and. / Sites / default / settings.php have been made. They have been set to read-only for security.

The first part that you need to fill the Site Information.

* Site Name -> insert name of your site in this form, for example Drupalku. Site name will appear in the upper left corner side by side with drupal logo.
* Site e-mail address -> enter your email address here for site administration purposes.

The second part of the Administrator Account

Forms in this section aims to create a master account and the first as the site administrator. Fill closely enough.

* Username? enter a name for the administrator user name, you can fill in the Admin.
* E-mail address? email to an administrator account
* Password? password for the administrator account
* Confirm password? write the administrator’s password as a confirmation

The next section is the Server Settings

* Default time zone
This form serves to set the time to be used on the site. I suggest let alone keep the default, because this is automatically adapts to your computer.
* Clean URLs
This section is important enough for the Disabled (Enabled). Clean URLs will make your site URL into a neat and more familiar to humans and search engines. Default drupal when Clean URLs disabled or is not active, the URL will be used on the site will always use? Q =. This is clearly difficult for visitors to remember our URL address, it was for the search engines something undesirable. Select Enabled Clean URLs for this section. Additional information, using XAMPP, you support the use of localhost url is clean.
* Update notifications
Update notifications serve as a tool to check and notify if any changes/updates either the latest version of the core module or drupal. This will work when your site will have been installed outside, which automatically tries to contact the latest updates. Therefore your site is still offline, you can uncheck/remove the check mark in this option. Done all, please click the Save button and continue.

Complete Instalation drupal

In the next display will appear a message that the installation process is completed. (Drupal installation Compete). However, there is a red warning, the following display:

warning: mail () [function.mail]: Failed to connect to mailserver at “localhost” port 25, verify your “SMTP” and “smtp_port” setting in php.ini or use ini_set () in C:\xampp\htdocs\drupalku\includes\mail.inc on line 193.
Unable to send e-mail. Please contact the site administrator if the problem persists.

This warning is normal because you’ve installed drupal in localhost, localhost is not connected to the internet. This warning explains that the email function does not work and resulted in sending an email to an administrator account failed. This does not matter, when your site is online, email function will work well. You can ignore this warning. You can see the writing underneath that provide safe, that Drupal has been successfully installed. Please proceed to your site pages by clicking on the link your new site.

Welcome to your new drupal. You automatically are logged in as admin, in accordance with the administrator user name that you entered earlier. The next tutorial I will explain the parts of drupal so you better understand their respective functions.

Congratulations to learn drupal.

With this localhost, you do not have to worry about rent hosting, domain rent or fees to access the Internet when you’re building your site. Your site will be done offline on your own computer, and if you’re ready, you can rent hosting and domain for your site can be accessed by Internet users around the world.

One of the software used to create localhost called XAMPP. XAMPP Through this, your computer will be equipped with a fairly complete package as a condition to be able to build a site via localhost, and that especially is all you need is a php, apache server, and mysql. XAMPP package is well integrated, you can simply download the file and then install your computer. I created the following guidelines for your computer using windows.

Package Contents XAMPP version 1.7.2 for Windows

* Apache 2.2.12 (IPv6 enabled) + OpenSSL 0.9.8k
* MySQL 5.1.37 + PBXT engine
* PHP 5.3.0
* PhpMyAdmin 3.2.0.1
* Webalizer 2.21-02 + GeoIP lite
* FileZilla FTP Server 0.9.32
* Msmtp 1.4.17

To look around the intended XAMPP Windows OS, you can see through http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp-windows.html. XAMPP is also provided for other operating systems like Linux, Mac OS X up to Solaris.

XAMPP Installation Guide:

Download XAMPP version of Windows in

http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp-windows.html
Find table XAMPP packacge basic parts like the picture on the side. Best option. EXE.

The latest version can be downloaded at the following link (if published the latest version, the link below will be lost / changed.

http://www.apachefriends.org/download.php?xampp-win32-1.7.2.exe

Provider recommended XAMPP, new users are advised to use the XAMPP package basis. I chose that. EXE for this package is the easiest to install, you just run the file. EXE

Step by step during the installation:

After running the file xampp-win32-1.7.2.exe, you will be faced with a choice of language you use. Select English

The second step will appear asking to close all display other applications before installing XAMPP. You can also complied or not does not matter, as long as not too many computer applications that you run, so do not make you confused or slow your computer because of the large computer memory is used.

The next window that appears is the selection of place/location XAMPP files. I recommend it as the default in c:\xampp. Do not be put into the folder “Program Files” ( “C:\Program Files”), due to the existence of a folder permissions issue.

The next window will bring up the installation settings. For convenience, you check all the options so that the installed package will complete enough.

* Create a desktop icon XAMPP -> will display the XAMPP icon on your computer desktop pages
* Create an Apache Friends XAMPP folder in the start menu -> will create XAMPP folder accessible from your windows start menu
* Service will install section for the three services/service is needed, please check all.

Installation process is running, wait until the end. For the record, the image that I use is XAMPP version 1.7.0, but in fact the installation process is not much different since the version is still quite close.

Initial installation is complete, press the Finish button. Wait for the next step.

Installation files is complete, please select the Yes button to start the XAMPP Control Panel

After finishing all, press the Finish button. If everything smoothly, congratulations, you’ve managed to install XAMPP and you’re ready to use localhost for web-making activities.

As the last image that appears in your browser page, there are four parts you can see.

* Header
The first part is dark blue with the logo on drupal and Drupalku site name.
* Sidebar Block
Part of the left sidebar called the block-block holds, where currently there is only one block that is an admin account.
* Main Page
The center of the page is the main page .. This page will be filled by your content, if the posts are set to appear on the front page (default is immediately appear on the front).
* Footer
The lower part of the site, currently only contains a small logo drupal.

Your current status is entered / logged in as admin, as you know that as an admin, you can do anything on this site. We will try to discuss, what can you see and do as an admin.

There are four main menu, namely

* My account
Contains the identity of the owner of this account is the admin.
* Create content
Menu to create new content. Type of content depending on what type of content that will be activated.
* Administer
Administer the main menu from an admin. Inside are many options for setting the overall tools content.
* Log out
Round out the menu for you to log in as admin.

Here’s an explanation of each part of the admin account.

In the My Account menu, there are two menu tabs presented, namely View the current access and edit your. Through the View you can see the History of your membership, where the old admin 1 week 5 days. This section will grow as your item as admin already started construction of the site.

The second tab is menu Edit. This section has an editing function for your account information, the user name, e-mail address, password and your account status. As an admin, you can edit the users who will be a member on your site. Moreover, if there is a “bad”, you can use to lock the blocked status of membership of the site. To set the Time zone, as in the previous tutorial, leave the way they are.

Create content menu used to create site content (content). Drupal default there are two types of content that is provided

* Page
Page content type used to create static pages in a site. Examples such as About Us, Policy, and so on. The pages created using Page content type is usually not intended to allow visitors to comment, in the sense that it is only for information pages.
* Story
Story content type is usually used to create a more dynamic pages are usually allows visitors to provide comments. This content type could be to create a daily journal. In some cases, Story content type is also used by some drupal users to create blogs. But in reality, the type of content is also provided their own blogs by drupal.

For a discussion on Create content and the deeper part, will be discussed in subsequent tutorials. We will proceed to the next menu to get you better understand the first parts of an outline of the drupal installation that you have done.
# Administer
Administer menu is the main menu of your admin account. Through this menu you can manage all activities on the site. In drupal version 6, the division’s admin pages are grouped into sub-sub menu, it will assist you in understanding each functions contained. In addition, there are two menu tabs that are used to make the distinction sub-groupings in the Administer menu this. By task and by module. I myself more familiar with the By task because it is more often used and this is also the same as the names of the sub menu Administer menu.

Cron has not run
If you look at this Administer section, you can see there is a green line just below the two tabs and menu By By task module. “Cron has not run. Please visit the status report for more information “. One small part of the drupal cron is a feature. Cron feature serves to index all site content into local search engine (which you install drupal). In addition, there are some module that also need cron running .. Considering you have just installed drupal, cron had not been executed. Warning order is lost, you can run manually by running the command in your browser http://localhost/mydrupal/cron.php. This command if completed will result in blank white page or pages only. However, you also can run a cron it by clicking on the status of trouble that came in it.

When you click the link status report, you’ll be taken to the page status report. This page gives information on whether you installed drupal having problems or not. You can also see whether the device is supporting drupal server can serve the needs of drupal or not, like the version of PHP, PHP memory limit, GD Library, etc.. Through this page you only want to run the cron. Find and click on the link manually run cron.

Once you click, you will be given confirmation that the successful cron runs. Cron ran successfully. Feel free to return to the previous menu on the Administer menu. Warning green color is gone now after you run this cron.

The following sub-menu of the page or menu Administer:

Content management

# Content management focused to manage all site activities associated with the content or postings. Comments, content, content type, setting pemostingan, RSS, until the taxonomy or categorization problem can be handled and managed through the sub-menu.

Site building

# Site building works to build things and fundamental importance of a site. Blocks, Menus, Modules, and Themes is the basic of building a drupal site. The things you can do this through the sub menu include the addition of a module, making the site menu, setting up to block the display problem in the form of themes.

User management

# Sites dynamic nature must not be separated from visitors or the member’s involvement. Well this dibagian reserved for settings related to the activities of visitors. Access rules, Permissions, Roles, User settings, Users. Things you can do the other set from the security side, the access rights page, to setting the user levels.

Reports

# Sub-menu presents the Report or the reports of monitoring activity drupal site. Recent log entries, Top acces denied errors, Top page not found errors and status report. You can enable some additional module to increase the completeness of the Reports.

Site configuration

# Site configuration function for setting things in more detail from a website. Almost every addition of a new module, you also need to set the configuration in this sub menu. The things you can do the other settings when the input data format to the site, site performance to manage the site more efficient, to make the status of the site off-line when you are to perform maintenance or repairs. Details of each sub menu will be explained in the next tutorial.

Help

# The people who often forget to access the Administer sub-menu is Help. Actually, this section is included for the purpose you have read and understood. You will be able to understand the terms used in drupal as nodes, blocks, and taxonomy. To more deeply about drupal, also provided a link to access the drupal handbook it. Help is highly recommended to read as a beginner.

Logout
To end the adventure today as admin drupal, do not forget to logout, so you will become a regular user again.