Make your Drupal websites faster using the Drupal cache. Enabling cache helps you to avoid slow down websites with a lot of traffic. Clearing the caches or rebuild caches after making any changes in the development. Change can be installing module/theme/library or modifying existing module/theme/library. Always it is good practice to clear or rebuild caches when you export the database.
There are many ways to clear the Drupal cache.
Git is a free and open source version control system. Git is the most widely used modern version control system in the world. Git has the functionality, performance, security and flexibility. Most of the OS(operating system) has built-in terminal/command prompt.
Download the latest Git for Windows installer(https://git-for-windows.github.io/).
How to update Drupal 8.x.x version to any latest Drupal 8.x.x version (for example, Drupal 8.1 to 8.2). Security updates also includes in Drupal core release which really helps to protect your website.
Zymphonies launched first awesome Drupal8 Zymphonies Theme. This tutorial will be helpful you to install our theme successfully, Please go through below steps to make complete installation.
Download latest Drupal 8 core from drupal.org and install, Please go through our Drupal 8 installation tutorial.
This Blog focuses on basic core Drupal 8 installation. There are many Drupal installation guide in drupal.org. You can make quick Drupal installation using this tutorial.
Before proceeding Drupal 8 installation, You should review the minimum below system requirements
Web server:
Apache, Nginx, or Microsoft IIS
Database:
Drupal 8 mobile-first approach that would allow to make great, relevant content to all devices such us smart phone, tablet and desktop etc. Drupal 8 helps to create an elegant and responsive mobile website with great SEO, larger potential audience. Drupal 8 has few default responsive theme, Bartik theme is fully responsive, so you can get responsive theme with Drupal 8 core.
XAMPP installation in Windows is very easy, Apache distribution containing MySQL, PHP, and Perl. XAMP software support for website frameworks like Drupal, Joomla, Wordpress etc.
You can extend or alter Drupal behavior using Drupal contributed modules. Drupal has many default useful modules like blog, contact etc. You just need to enable default module from Drupal Administration -> Modules page(admin/modules). There are many contributed modules available in drupal.org, You can download contributed modules from drupal.org and use for your Drupal website.
Just for example, Explain you how to Install Pathauto module.
You can easily create MySQL databases in your localhost or hosting account. You might have seen SQL file when you buy premium theme or free theme package. You can see 'create database and import' steps in documentation. How to create database and import?
If you don't have server or you want test/configure build in local system. You can install XAMP, XAMP is a free and open source cross-platform web server solution stack package.
Keep at-least one backup of your Drupal Website. Drupal website backing up involves backing up both the site's database and its files. Just for taking file backup doesn't help. Always take database and files backup whenever you take Drupal website backup.
Export Database, You can export database using PHPMyAdmin. Make sure that you are exporting same database which you used in Drupal build. You can see the database name in Drupal settings.php file (sites/default/settings.php).