You now need to create the DB where Drupal is going to live PostgreSQL:: createdb -U pgsql -W drupal createuser -U pgsql -P -e drupal createlang -U pgsql -W plpgsql drupal psql -U drupal drupal < /usr/local/www/drupal4/database/database.pgsql MySQL:: mysqladmin -u dba_user -p create drupal mysql -u dba_user -p GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON drupal.* TO drupal@localhost IDENTIFIED BY 'passwd'; mysql -u drupal -p drupal < /usr/local/www/drupal4/database/database.mysql" Then edit the /usr/local/www/drupal4/sites/default/settings.php to your needs. Once you have done that you must add appropriate configuration directives to your apache configuration file (/usr/local/etc/apache(2)/httpd.conf). A typical configuration would be: Alias /drupal "/usr/local/www/drupal4" Options Indexes FollowSymlinks MultiViews AllowOverride None Order allow,deny Allow from all