How to install Drupal on a cPanel - EwebHostingStore-Blog

Step 1: Download Drupal from the Drupal homepage and save the .zip file to your computer.

**Step 2**: Log in to cPanel as the user for which you want to install Drupal and click File Manager.

**Step 3**: You now see an overview of the folders and files. Click **‘public_html’**. Install your Joomla on a sub domain or add-on domain, then navigate to the relevant folder.

Step 4: Click ‘Upload’ at the top of the page. You will see the overview below.

Step 5: Click ‘Select File’ and select the file you downloaded in Step 1. Then click ‘Open’ to upload the file.

**Step 6**: Click **‘Go Back to …**‘ at the bottom of the confirmation that appears.
**Step 7**: You will now return to the **public_html** folder and see **‘drupal-8.4.5.zip’** (or just the version that is current at the time of reading). Select the file and click **‘Extract’** at the top right.

**Step 8**: You will see the screen below in which you can adjust the unpacking location. Click **‘Extract File(s)**‘ to start the unpacking process.

Customizing the directory is an alternative method to install Drupal on your subdomain or add-on domain compared to step 3. You do this by referring to the directory of your subdomain or add-on domain here.

Step 9: Drupal will put its files in the ‘drupal-4.8.5’ folder in the .zip file you downloaded. As a result, a new folder is created in your public_html folder called “drupal-4.8.5“. Click ‘drupal-4.8.5’ to open the folder.

**Step 10**: Click **‘Select All’** > **‘Move’**.

Step 11: You will see a ‘Move’ screen as below. Edit the location under ‘Enter the path that you want to move this file to:‘ to ‘/public_html/’ and click ‘Move File (s)‘.

All files are now in the right place. Remove the Drupal-4.8.5 folder and the .zip file by checking them and clicking ‘Delete’.

Step 12: Open yourdomain.com in a browser (replace yourdomain.com by your actual domain name). You will then see the Drupal setup menu. Select your preferred language and click ‘Save and continue’.

**Step 13**: You can then choose a **‘Standard’** or **‘Minimal’** installation. Choose **‘Standard’** and click **‘Save and continue’**.

**Step 14**: Drupal checks whether your VPS meets the requirements for the installation. You will see a warning about OPcache. Click **‘continue anyway’** at the bottom. You are free to enable OPcache after the installation, but the configuration of this is outside the scope of this article.

**Step 15**: Enter your database as shown in the example below and click **‘Save and continue**.

Step 16: Drupal automatically installs your website and automatically follows the ‘Set up translations’ step.

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