First Blog entry!

Testing 1, 2, 3. Is this thing on?

This Blog has been created to document the process to take on setting up customizing Drupal software on a webserver. I've never heard of Drupal before and I don't have experience with PHP, so this should be a learning experience for everyone!

From what I have read, Drupal is an open source software effort that allows users to create and host their own blogs, message forums, and file hosting services without being a profecient PHP programmer. I can tell that the biggest challenge here will be the initial install. This will require installations of IIS, PHP, MySQL, and Drupal. All of this software is going to need to be loaded and working in harmony - which I can't imagine will go soothly.

My first step and goal for the day will be to find a web server to work on. Luckilly my organization has plenty of Windows 2003 servers available that do not run IIS, so I will find a good target candidate to piggy back off of and run the software. (Just don't tell my boss.) My servers are all available 24/7 through VPN and Windows remote desktop, so they should be highly available.

Be back later.