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I'm a dummy, so this was a natural for me...  :-)

Here is my first draft of a guide created from my notes taken during the creation of a brand new CiviCRM 2.2.7 site under a brand new installation of Drupal 6.x.  It's a living document, so I plan to keep updating it.

Michael,

I was waiting for at least one person to say that it's worth the trouble...  :-)

Where should I put it?  Also, the instructions are really host-independent -- the Go Daddy references are easy to replace w/ corresponding steps for other shared hosting platforms or VPS setups...

Thanks!

The questions I would ask are how does this relate to content that is already out there, and following from that, where does it fit?  Should you create a new page, or should you try and integrate this content in other pages?

I have a feeling the answer is both - some of it is go daddy specific and if a go daddy installation page doesn't exist, you can create one, but some of your content is useful regardless of your provider and could be used to improve the installation pages.

It might be useful to try and remember what was missing from the documentation when you went through this process yourself, and where you looked for it; that should guide you as to where to add it.

There's no correct answer so I would have a little look around, make your mind up, be bold (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Be_bold_in_editing_articles) and feel free to ask for more guidance if you want to.

Here is the obvious place to start:  http://wiki.civicrm.org/confluence/display/CRMDOC/Installation+and+Upgrades - a child page there would be good.  And in case you haven't already, try the different civicrm searches for godaddy (the wiki, forum, googling "site:civicrm.org godaddy", etc.) to get an idea of what is already up there.

PS.  I like the stuff referencing the book - would be great to have more links between the documentation and the book on the wiki.

Cool - I like that. Keeping it together as an example is a good way of doing it.

I added this to your bit about creating a module

You can also find examples in your CiviCRM install in civicrm\drupal\civitest.module.sample

Hey mike - nice job with the new "from scratch" guide. As we will be redirecting all documentation wiki traffic to the 3.0 version of the doc shortly, I went a head and created a copy of your page in the 3.0 documentation space:

http://wiki.civicrm.org/confluence/display/CRMUPCOMING/Drupal+installation+and+configuration+example

Unfortunately we don't have a way of merging changes from the current stable doc version to the "next" version. SO... if you (or anyone else) has further additions or improvements to this page (or pretty much any other page going forward) - please make the changes in the "upcoming" version of the pages. Start here to find them:

http://wiki.civicrm.org/confluence/display/CRMUPCOMING/CiviCRM+Documentation

Hmm - for now I guess a note on top of the page is good. I'll check w/ Michal on our team about putting up a global notice on the 2.2 doc pages.

Hi Mike,
Great initiative!
Erik

I'm in the process of updating my doc for 2010 and CiviCRM 3.2 (my project is an annual high school parent teacher assn membership drive -- it's that time of year again).  Just thought I'd mention my pending updates in case anyone else has created a related document(s) that I should reference (or incorporate if other docs do a better job than I did in some areas).  Thanks!