In this post I give tutorial how to install drupal 8 via XAMPP

To install XAMPP, one can download it through the link provided below
https://www.apachefriends.org/download.html

• On the basis of individual system needs and configuration one can install XAMPP.
  



• To start the installation, Open / double click the .exe file
  



• Step 1: When opening the file, the XAMPP wizard will start:
  



• Step 2: Click next, a screen will appear where you can select the component you want to save, when clicking here you will get the default component provided by XAMPP.
  



• Step 3: Choose the location on your system where you want to install XAMPP.
  



• Step 4: Click next to start the installation
  



• Step 5: After successful completion of Installation, the following screen will appear.
  



• Keep the checkbox (Do you want to start Control Panel now),
  Click completed to complete the process, the control panel display will be launched automatically.
  



• The above steps will conclude the installation of a local web server on your system, Apache and MySQL running as we can see from the control panel. To check the type 127.0.0.1/dashboard/ or localhost / dashboard /
  



• Now that we have a local web server on our system we can start with Drupal 8. We can download the latest Drupal 8 package from the link below:

Ref URL: https://www.drupal.org/news/drupal-8.0.0-released
Version: drupal 8.0.1
drupal-8.0.1.zip



• Click Save file.
  The next step is to install drupal in the system. This includes the following steps:

• Step 2.1: Copy the .zip drupal file in the "C: \ xampp \ htdocs" folder.
  The road will look like this
  



• Step 2.2: Extract the .zip file.

• Step 2.3: In your web browser, type 127.0.0.1/drupal-8.0.1, where drupal-8.0.1 is the name of the extracted folder.
  Steps to copy and paste default.settings.php into settings.php and also create a "Files" folder under the / default site and grant read and write permissions for all types of users.

• Following the steps above will take you to the drupal installation page
  



• One can choose the installation language by clicking the drop down box where the default language is English.

• Step 2.4: Click next and the profile profile page opens, Standard profile is the default profile.
  



• Step 2.5: Click Save and Continue
  



• An overview page of terms that informs us of requirements on various parameters of web servers, PHP versions, libraries, holder permissions, settings.php required for drupal to operate on our system.

Just keep clicking at the bottom of the installation page

• Step 2.6: To install drupal 8, we need a database that we can create by visiting the URL localhost / phpmyadmin / serverdatabases.php.

• The above URL corresponds to phpmyadmin which serves as the data administrator for MySQL from where we can create, modify or delete databases; also execute SQL statements and manage users and permissions.
  



• Any human readable name can be given as database name, here we provide our database name as 'drupal8'. Someone can give a similar name but is suggested to be given a simple name. Underscores (_) can also be used
  After giving the name click 'create'.
  



• Please note that the name 'drupal8' provided by us when creating the database becomes the name of the database name while installing drupal. The database user name is root as we can see in the screenshot above, which is the default database username.
  Password section is left empty if no password is specified.

• Click save and continue. Installation should begin.
  



• After installation, configure the site pages to be opened which will require some details of us ie the site name / email address / username / password / Country / Time zone and update notification check box.

• The details we provide in this case are;
  Site name -MyName (someone can name the site)
  Site address - [email protected]
  username - admin (someone can provide the username they like)
  Password - choose a strong password.
  Country - India
  Time Zone - Asia / Kolkata

• checkbox for update notification marked default.
  



• Click save and continue.
  



A window like the one above will pop up that will tell you that Drupal is already installed on your system.

The same URL is localhost / drupal-8.0.1 where drupal-8.0.1 is the name of the folder.

Hopefully what I explain can be useful.
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