Introduction

Many web hosting companies provide a program called CPanel for their customers to manage their accounts. CPanel is simply a web-based administrative interface to a hosted account. In this tutorial, we will install and configure Drupal version 5.1 using CPanel.

We will be using two of a webmaster's essential tools for this tutorial: a web browser and an FTP client. It really doesn't matter which specific tool you use. In these tutorials, we will use Firefox as our browser, and we will use FileZilla as our FTP client. Feel free to substitute whatever tool works for you.

You will, of course, need a web hosting account with CPanel, as well as your account name and password. For this tutorial, we will install Drupal on a fictitious site with the account name citybb.

There are essentially three major steps to installing Drupal:

• Copy and extract the Drupal distribution to your hosting site.
• Create the database file that Drupal will use.
• Configure the Drupal database settings and administrator account.

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