[CentOS] Drupal installation

Timothy Murphy wrote:
> Sorry, I should have made myself clearer.
> Drupal-5 is available on EPEL,
> so it can just be yum-installed.
> The question is, what to do after that?
> Eg is it a good idea to create a user drupal
> who will own the database one has to create?

No need to create a user Drupal at the OS level.

You need to create a database and a database user/password.  The 
database/user/password go into the settings.php file.

There is a Drupal support list too, which may be more appropriate at 
some point.

-- 
Sincerely,
John Thomas