{"id":369,"date":"2016-09-19T12:04:09","date_gmt":"2016-09-19T12:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wickedrobot.dev\/support\/?p=369"},"modified":"2025-10-08T06:14:40","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T06:14:40","slug":"how-to-install-drupal-via-softaculous-in-cpanel","status":"publish","type":"epkb_post_type_1","link":"https:\/\/wickedrobot.dev\/knowledge-base\/how-to-install-drupal-via-softaculous-in-cpanel","title":{"rendered":"How to Install Drupal via Softaculous in cPanel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Softaculous helps you install web applications very easy. Please, follow the steps below to install Drupal.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong>1.<\/strong> Log in to your cPanel account. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong>2.<\/strong> <\/span><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">In the <strong>Software<\/strong> section, click on <strong>Softaculous Apps Installer<\/strong>.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/img\/softaculous-icon.gif\" alt=\"\" align=\"middle\" \/><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong><br \/>\n3.<\/strong> cPanel will redirect you to the Softaculous interface.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong>4. <\/strong>On the left side, locate the <strong>Portal\/CMS<\/strong> category. Click on it and then on the <strong>Drupal<\/strong> link that appears.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/img\/drupal-softaculous.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong>5.<\/strong> Click on <strong>Install<\/strong>.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/img\/drupal-install-button.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong>6.<\/strong> Fill in the necessary fields under the <strong>Software Setup<\/strong> fields:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong>Choose Installation URL:<\/strong> Choose the appropriate protocol\/domain. Inside the &#8220;<strong>In Directory<\/strong>&#8221; field, should you want to install this in a directory, i.e., cloudwafer.com\/blog\/directory, enter the directory name. Otherwise, please, leave it blank to install in your main domain, i.e., cloudwafer.com\/blog.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong>Choose the version you want to install:<\/strong> <\/span><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">You can leave this as it is.<\/span><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong>Cron job:<\/strong> You can leave this as it is.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/img\/drupal-install-screen.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong>7.<\/strong> Under the <strong>Site Settings<\/strong> field, enter the following information:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong>Site Name:<\/strong> Enter the name of your website, such as <strong>my first website<\/strong>.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong>8.<\/strong> Under the <strong>Admin Account<\/strong> field, enter the following information:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong>Admin Username:<\/strong> Your new Drupal username (for security reasons, do not use the administrator or the admin username).<br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong>Admin Password:<\/strong> Use a strong password.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong>Admin Email:<\/strong> Your e-mail address.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/img\/softaculous-gen-install-screen-two.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"539\" height=\"371\" \/><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong>Note:<\/strong> Copy the admin username and password to Notepad. You will need those to access the admin area of your Drupal website later.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong>9.<\/strong> <\/span><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong>Advanced Options: <\/strong>Leave this unless you want to change the database name or take an automated backup. Please, note that creating frequent backups may take a lot of disk space.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Finally, scroll down to the end of the page and click on Install.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/img\/softaculous-install-button.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Softaculous helps you install web applications very easy. Please, follow the steps below to install Drupal. &nbsp; 1. Log in to your cPanel account. 2. In the Software section, click on Softaculous Apps Installer. 3. cPanel will redirect you to the Softaculous interface. 4. On the left side, locate the Portal\/CMS category. Click on it &#8230; <a title=\"How to Install Drupal via Softaculous in cPanel\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/wickedrobot.dev\/knowledge-base\/how-to-install-drupal-via-softaculous-in-cpanel\" aria-label=\"Read more about How to Install Drupal via Softaculous in cPanel\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"epkb_post_type_1_category":[78],"epkb_post_type_1_tag":[],"class_list":["post-369","epkb_post_type_1","type-epkb_post_type_1","status-publish","hentry","epkb_post_type_1_category-cmsportal-softaculous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wickedrobot.dev\/jipumel\/wp\/v2\/epkb_post_type_1\/369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wickedrobot.dev\/jipumel\/wp\/v2\/epkb_post_type_1"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wickedrobot.dev\/jipumel\/wp\/v2\/types\/epkb_post_type_1"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wickedrobot.dev\/jipumel\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wickedrobot.dev\/jipumel\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wickedrobot.dev\/jipumel\/wp\/v2\/epkb_post_type_1\/369\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wickedrobot.dev\/jipumel\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"epkb_post_type_1_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wickedrobot.dev\/jipumel\/wp\/v2\/epkb_post_type_1_category?post=369"},{"taxonomy":"epkb_post_type_1_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wickedrobot.dev\/jipumel\/wp\/v2\/epkb_post_type_1_tag?post=369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}