How to use Drupal?

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  Kaustubh Katdare

  Drupal is a CMS (content management system). Look at #-Link-Snipped-# for minimum system requirements to run Drupal.
  
  Drupal is exclusively used to make a website. But for forums, you may look at PHPBB. Does that answer your question?
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  callyD

  I found that installing it and playing with it to setup some websites for projects to be the best way to learn.
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  Ashraf HZ

  callyD

  I found that installing it and playing with it to setup some websites for projects to be the best way to learn.

  Yep, I agree!
  
  Anyway, Drupal has a basic forum module that you can enable at the admin panel. Not as sophisticated as phpBB, but sufficient enough for showing threads. If you do wish to use something like phpBB, you'll need some additional configuration to make sure they integrate well together (sharing of users, visual styles, etc).
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  sarveshgupta

  thanks a lot guys
  
  i also want to ask that is drupal free i mean after installing and developing a website using drupal how that is uploaded on the net
  
  do we need to buy domain and webspace seperately as we do for websites we make ourselves?
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  Kaustubh Katdare

  @sarveshgupta: Drupal is open source and to the best of my knowledge, released under GPL. That means you can use Drupal for free on your own domain. It depends whether you want to use your own domain (and have full control over it). If yes, then you will have to buy the domain. But if you want to just try using it, you can set it up on your local server and try building websites. If you are okay with setting up websites on sub-domains offerred by free hosting sites, then you need not purchase a domain. But you will need some hosting space (free/paid) online if you want to make your website public.
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  jhbalaji

  Simple you need PHP5+ and MySql Db to word almost all hosts have that! 😀
  Its free and almost open source like WP so you can have a lot to play with It
  Mean while you can also play with WP3 which is now a CMS😀