Review of the Drupal 5.0 CMS (Content Management System)

[mandy]

A new version of the Drupal CMS has been released:

he only requirements for Drupal 5 are a Web server, PHP (4.3.3 or greater), and either a MySQL or PostgreSQL database. PHP's XML extension has to be enabled if you want XML services such as Jabber, and Apache's mod_rewrite is also necessary if you want to have "clean" URLs -- and you probably do.

You can be up and running with Drupal in less than five minutes because installation is basically instantaneous. Once you've made a new SQL database for your site, you just have to extract the Drupal 5 sources into your Web directory, which is a quick wget and tar operation. Then you open a browser window to your site's root page and complete a form to configure Drupal to work with your database. If your database is hosted on another server, you have to click "Advanced options" and give the hostname. The only snag I encountered was that Drupal needed write permissions to the file /sites/default/settings.php, so I had to chmod it (and then chmod it back once installation was complete, because otherwise it's a security risk)...

full article: http://www.linux.com/article.pl?sid=07/01/26/1734224