Installing and configuring Drupal-7.24 on Windows 7 x64 system

Pre-requisites, you need to have wamp (Windows Apache, MySQL and PHP) installed and running in order to quickly setup your site in Drupal.

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In order for Drupal to work, and to continue with the installation process, you must resolve all issues reported below. For more help with configuring your database server, see the installation handbook. If you are unsure what any of this means you should probably contact your hosting provider.

Failed to connect to your database server. The server reports the following message: SQLSTATE[HY000] [1049] Unknown database ‘mydrupal’.

  • Is the database server running?
  • Does the database exist, and have you entered the correct database name?
  • Have you entered the correct username and password?
  • Have you entered the correct database hostname?
    Ensure you have mydrupal database created on your MySQL database instance. then it will continue as shown below.

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Here you can find a short overview of your site’s parameters as well as any problems detected with your installation. It may be useful to copy and paste this information into support requests filed on drupal.org’s support forums and project issue queues.

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Drupal
7.24

OK

Access to update.php
Protected

OK

Configuration file
Protected

OK

Cron maintenance tasks
Last run 30 min 12 sec ago

You can run cron manually.
To run cron from outside the site, go to http://localhost/drupal-7.24/cron.php?cron_key=

OK

Database system
MySQL, MariaDB, or equivalent

OK

Database system version
5.6.12-log

OK

Database updates
Up to date

OK

Drupal core update status
Up to date

OK

File system
Writable (public download method)

OK

GD library PNG support
bundled (2.0.34 compatible)

OK

GD library rotate and desaturate effects
bundled (2.0.34 compatible)

OK

Node Access Permissions
Disabled

If the site is experiencing problems with permissions to content, you may have to rebuild the permissions cache. Rebuilding will remove all privileges to content and replace them with permissions based on the current modules and settings. Rebuilding may take some time if there is a lot of content or complex permission settings. After rebuilding has completed, content will automatically use the new permissions. Rebuild permissions

OK

PHP
5.4.12 (more information)

OK

PHP extensions
Enabled

OK

PHP memory limit
128M

OK

PHP register globals
Disabled

OK

Unicode library
PHP Mbstring Extension

OK

Update notifications
Enabled

Info

Upload progress
Not enabled

Your server is capable of displaying file upload progress, but does not have the required libraries. It is recommended to install the PECL uploadprogress library (preferred) or to install APC.

OK

Web server
Apache/2.4.4 (Win64) PHP/5.4.12

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