Download Install Drupal - pretty easy and well documented

Download the CiviCRM Drupal Php5 tar ball and unzip it in the sites/all/modules directory.
- modify civicrm.settings.php.sample to civicrm.settings.php and put in the drupal database and the database in the civicrm database settings.

Docs for a manual installation are here: http://wiki.civicrm.org/confluence/display/CRMDOC/Install+CiviCRM+1.9+fo...

The auto installation works as well: if it is the first set-up, if you are doing multi-site you'll need to do the manual.

So I had a feeling lighttpd would be getting a new version and of course I didn't document my install process originally. I compiled it from source and of course did a lot of custom hacks to get it working the way I wanted it to be, but when it came down to documenting it - well...nuff said.

So I decided to upgrade today and just to potentially make life easier for others and myself I thought I would list some of the problems I ran into and what I did to work around them.

So I had to do an export path to get lua to be enabled.