Installing Drupal

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 168767 bytes) in /var/www/test/drupal-6.17/includes/menu.inc on line 966

 Solution : increase the memory limit tp 128 in php.ini file *( you can chk the location of php.ini file in status report of admin section of drupal- pho version )

   3.  Command to restart the apache (you may need this at times after installing of some modules) 

       > sudo /etc/init.d/apache2

  4.  Command to chk the GDB installation and version

       > apt-cache showpkg php5-gd

   you may need to check this when you get the following error :

   
   Problem in status report file :
   The GD library for PHP is missing or outdated. Please check the PHP image   documentation for information on how to correct this.

Video For How to Download /Install Drupal :
    Video: Download /Install
For further reading :
    11-most-important-things-to-do-after-installing-drupal