1. Make sure you have meet the requirements for hosting2. Unzip your delivered files. You will see:

• database file (will look like weirdna_weird.sql)
• file structure, modules, and themes  zipped  (will look like domainV1.zip)
• readme.txt file

3. Important information is contained in the readme.txt file including your database username, password, and more.4. Unzip your file structure, modules, and themes either on the server directly (faster and more efficient) or by unzipping on your desktop and uploading to the server.5. Upload to the server either by ftp the unzipped files or by unzipping on the server6. Now you need to create a database and give a user permission to access the database. That information will later be used in your settings.php file. Create the database in either phpMyAdmin or in cPanel use MySQL Databases.In cPanel:

• Create the database
• Create the user
• Give user privileges
• Here are very good instructions at cPanel

7. Import your delivered database file (will look like weirdna_weird.sql) into your newly created database.

• Here are very good instructions at Drupal.org

8. Go to your file structure and look for this file: yourdomain.com/sites/default/settings.php (/public_html/sites/default/settings.php). Change the permissions of the file so the owner can edit (644). Now open it with notepad or other simple editor. You need to input your new database/user information.Look for this code on line 92:$db_url = 'mysqli://someusername:somepassword@localhost/somedatabasename'; $db_prefix = '';You will replace with your username, password, and database.9. Save the file and change the permissions back to 444.