May
20
Last night, in a fit of enthusiasm, well-tempered by lunacy, I decided to try and get Drupal running on my iBook in order to see what the open source content management system has to offer. The result was four hours of frustration. None of the three separate sets of instructions I found online worked for me. And, based on the comments that accompanied each of the tutorials, the problems I was having are unique to me.
I tried again this morning and lost another hour out of my life, leading me to the conclusion that I am not nearly geeky enough for Drupal.
TAGS: DRUPAL
Have you tried using MAMP? See http://mamp.info/en/home.php … :)
In truth, the problem isn’t with Drupal (at least so far). Apache is running fine. I haven’t gotten past all the steps for MySql yet. I can get it loaded and the server running but when I try to get it set-up through Terminal, it all goes to hell. I’ll likely try again some time later this summer.
I’ve never found drupal installations to be terribly complex assuming that PHP, mysql and apache are all up and running and you’ve got all the permissions you need from each. I have no experience with “user fiendly” packages for Mac OS X but have installed it on my own machines (running Debian) and shared hosts (a few linux flavours as well as FreeBSD) and found it to be little more than upload, extract, edit a config file and go. If your web host allows you to set up multiple hosts, simply create a new host with all the goodies and try installing Drupal using the command-line instructions.
Demos are cool, though you may find the site being reset a few times before you’ve had a chance to acquaint yourself with the struture, terminology and such. They’re also not suitable for playing around with module or template development.
Cool. I’ll have to try that.
Mark do you know about opensourcecms.com? it lets you try a demo on their site. It has a lot of different CMSs, including Drupal. Also blogging apps, incl. WordPress. And wikis. And the kitchen sink…