1. Download drupal(latest stable version ) from drupal.org 2. unzip and transfer to website root , say /var/www/drupal6.13/ - ubuntu OR /httpdocs/ -centOS Or you can make a subdir inside these folders if you have more than more sites running on the server. 3. Then go to http://localhost/test/drupal-6.17/ OR http://yourwebsiteURL.com/drupal-6.13 and simply follow the steps given and refer to INSTALL.txt file inside the drupal folder ! Some useful command and things you may require while configuring Drupal : 1. command to check the Privilages any user has on databases SHOW GRANTS; SHOW GRANTS FOR CURRENT_USER; SHOW GRANTS FOR CURRENT_USER(); ... 2. You may get this Error at some point of time when you install diff modules, so its suggested to increase the memory size as mentioned below. Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 16777216 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate