This page describes the method for setting up the developers environment and installing Drupal, following the instructions given in Stuart Ball's Setting up a Drupal web site document
Download and Install MD5 & SH1 Checksum Utility
to check below downloads against MD5 and SHA1 given signatures
Download, Install and Configure Apache web server
- Last download was: httpd-2.2.17-win32-x86-openssl-0.9.8o.msi
Download, Install and Configure PHP5
- Last download was php-5.2.17-Win32-VC6-x86.zip (VC6 x86 Thread Safe)
Download, Install and Configure MySQL
- Last download was mysql-5.5.10-win32.msi (from community server)
Note if MySQL previously uninstalled then check hidden MySQL folder containing data directory has been deleted: C:\Document and Settings\All Users\Application Data
Download, Install and Configure phpMyAdmin
- Last download was phpMyAdmin-3.3.10-english.zip
Create database in MySQL
Download, Install and Configure Drupal
- Last download was drupal-6.20.zip