[CentOS] Drupal installation

Fri Jul 24 01:05:25 UTC 2009
Timothy Murphy <gayleard at eircom.net>

John Thomas wrote:

>> Does anyone have experience of drupal installation under CentoOS-5.3
>> with MySQL database preferably accessed through phpMyAdmin.
>> 
>> I want to install drupal more or less as an experiment,
>> and I'm looking for a 1- or 2-page document
>> that just lists precisely what steps to take.
> 
> I believe RPMForge offers Drupal 5 and 6
> http://packages.sw.be/drupal6/

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?

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