This is a quick checklist of tasks that you should do before and after the installation:
Turn Register Globals Off
- Add this line to the top of your .htaccess file: AddType x-mapp-php5 .php
Add Clean URL Support (on 1and1 and other hosts)
- Uncomment this line in your .htaccess file: # RewriteBase /
Get Language/Translation pack
- http://drupal.org/project/Translations
Set up default email addresses
- noreply@example.com, admin@example.com
Create database and user
INSTALL
Update User Settings
- If you have a private site disable the user signup
- If it's a public site download and configure the capcha module to verify that users are not bots.
Set up cron