Extra: Installing Drupal Manually (Ack!)

The purpose of this chapter is to focus on using a quick installer to get Drupal going, but if you really want to, you can also install Drupal manually. That’s outside the scope of this book, and I wouldn’t recommend it for beginners, but it can be done. For grins, even if you’re a beginner, you might want to browse through this section anyway, just to develop an appreciation for how much the quick installer makes your life easier.

And you might want to file it away, but perhaps working with content management systems would give you a boost in confidence, or a curiosity about the world of servers and the Linux operating system and how to be a “system admin.” Learning about these things is certainly possible—and being a system admin is a hot skill.