Installing Drupal

For now, we will just install Drupal using DevDesktop; however, we will change how we do this later on.

To do this, open up DevDesktop, then bottom left click on +, and then select New Drupal Site. Then, once the popup appears, click on Install in the row that Drupal 8 is in. This will appear with a popup:

Once this is done, click on the Local site:

In the preceding Fig 1.1, we can now get our Drupal site up and running.

We can see four lines of content:

• Local site: This is the URL that our website is accessible on locally
• Local code: This is where our code is currently located; further along, there is a little square button on the right, which launches a Terminal window
• Local database: This is the name of our database
• PHP version: This is the version of PHP being used