How to install Drupal locally on Mac with Acquia Dev Desktop

In this video, we're going to install Acquia's Dev Desktop on a Mac. First of all, go to "www dot Acquia dot com slash downloads" in your browser, and then on this page we're going to install Dev Desktop which is right here. Go ahead and select Mac under the options under Drupal 7.

Click download and save file. Once the download is complete, go ahead and navigate to finder and open up the dmg file. Next, go ahead and click the Acquia Dev Desktop Stack Installer.

Click next. Click next again. Make sure yes is clicked.

When you come to the license agreement screen, click next. And now you can select where you're going to install the applications that belong in this stack and where you're going to install your first Drupal site. Now, in this series we won't use our Drupal site directly but in the future, if you use Dev Desktop for site building or development work, you can import sites from other locations on your hard drive as well.

So you're not necessarily stuck to this location right now. I'm going to go ahead and leave these at the defaults and click next. These next two settings whe ...

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