Installing Drupal 7 on the Windows shared hosting is very easy. You will not need to have extensive knowledge of any programming language to do the switch. To install Drupal 7 on Windows shared hosting, you need to install a local test site on Windows. To do that you need to take care of system requirements and also need to install Drupal on your system.
The system requirements include browser requirement:
Internet Explorer 6.x or later
Firefox 2.x and later
Google Chrome
Opera 7 and later
Safari 1.x and later
Camino 1.x and later
It also includes baseline requirements:
MySQL Connections
Simultaneous PHP Connections
CPU Thresholds
You can quickly install Drupal on Windows by using Microsoft Web Platform Installer 2.0. The process is mentioned below:
First you need to download the Web Platform Installer.
Click on the Web Platform tab in order to check Runtimes and Frameworks.
There will be a PHP button and a box next to it called Web Applications tab.
You have to select Acquia Drupal under the web application.
Click on the Install button.
A screen will appear to show you your status of installation. The screen will show if you lack any system requirement or not.
There is a screen called Installation confirmation. It will review the terms and conditions of the installation. You need to click on I Accept.
This installation requires MySQL, which will redirect you to enter a password in order to create application database with the help of Web PI.
After the whole process is complete, restart the computer.
After all installation and downloads are done, you can make your database with Drupal 7. You should fill in every field in the form, so that you can save your time to update and edit the database later.
A Launch Link will appear under Drupal 7 application. You can open the default web browser of your system to the installation page to launch Drupal 7.
You can view the summary of the installation at a screen, appearing on the screen.
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