How to install drupal in sourceforge
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Download Drupal from https://drupal.org/.
You can find the installation guide here. However, here we will provide a brief description of the installation process. This information is focused on a sourceforge installation; however, it will be the same or even simpler for any other server. Download Drupal and unzip it. Connect with sftp or, even better, connect to sourceforge with Filezilla.
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Data for the connection:
host: web.sourceforge.net
name: Source forge user
password: No password is required
port: 22
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Then go to /home/project-web/[project name]/htdocs/
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Once everything is copied, go to the url with a browser, tipically [project name].sourceforge.net and go on with the configuration process.
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When configuring the db provide the following information:
host:mysql-[first letter of the project name]
user: it should have admin permissions
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If you lost the login form, you can access by url: /?q=user/login
— Main.AdrianQuintana - 2014-01-30