The most recent Drupal templates are provided with the new technique of the sample data installation. You can make your template appear as at the preview page selecing a single option during the Drupal engine installation. The following tutorial will show you how to install Drupal using the demo profile.
Upload Drupal engine
1. First of all visit the Drupal official website and download the Drupal CMS engine: http://drupal.org/
2. Upload the downloaded archive to the server.
We are going to use FileZilla FTP client to upload the file.
3. Log in to our hosting control panel and extract the archive.
4. Navigate to the domain, where we want to install our Drupal site. Start the installation process.
5. Go back to your hosting Cpanel and create a database name and a user.
6. Check " All Privileges" and ‘make the changes’.
7. Go back to the installation process and finish the installation.
8. Once Drupal is installed, we should now install the theme.
NOTE: If you want to install just the theme(without any sample data). All you need to do is upload the Theme### folder to the ‘sites/all/themes’ folder on your server.
Install Drupal template
In this tutorial, we will show you how to install the theme with all its sample data, so it looks like on the Template Preview Page.
1. Upload and replace the sites folder to the root folder of your Drupal installation.
2. Upload and replace the demo_profile folder from sources\ to profiles\ folder of your Drupal.
3. Upload and replace install.inc file to includes folder and system.install file to modules\system\ folder.
4. Reload your page, where you have installed Drupal and begin installation again.
NOTE: You may need to type in the /install.php at the end of the site URL.
Select Demonstration site profile and follow the instructions.
NOTE: If you get this message (shown on the screenshot bellow), then you need to empty the database to proceed.
5. Login to your phpmyadmin panel via Hosting Cpanel and Empty or Drop all the tables from the database used for this Drupal site.
6. Go back to the installation page and reload the page. Select Demonstration site profile and follow the instructions.
NOTE: If you get this message (shown on the screenshot below), make sure to check the file permissions for the folders/files on your server.
NOTE: If you get this message (shown on the screenshot below), then you should upload the "demo" folder from ‘sites\default\private’ folder of the downloaded template to the ‘sites\default\private’ folder on your server.
You can use FTP program, like FileZilla as well.
7. After the manual "demo" folder upload, we should reload the page.
8. Select the file in the “SNAPSHOT” box and hit "restore"
It may take a while. Please be patient…
9. You may now login to your Admin panel, using the Username and password specified in the ‘drupal_readme.pdf’ file. Usually, administrator login is admin and the password is admin123
Feel free to check the detailed video tutorial below:
How to install Drupal template using demo profile + possible issues