How it works...

The Drupal installation process will provide a Drupal installation for the selected language and install modules and configuration based on the installation profile (standard or minimal in this recipe.)

When you visit the installer, it reads the language code from the browser. With this language code, it will then select a supported language. If you choose a non-English installation, the translation files will be automatically downloaded from https://localize.drupal.org/. Previous versions of Drupal did not support automated multilingual installs. More on multilingual will be covered in Chapter 8, Multilingual and Internationalization.

The installation profile instructs Drupal what modules to install by default. Contributed install profiles are termed distributions; we will discuss this more in the next recipe.

When verifying requirements, Drupal checks application versions and PHP configurations. For example, if your server has the PHP Xdebug (https://xdebug.org) extension installed, the minimum max_nesting_level must be 256 or else Drupal will not be installed (https://www.drupal.org/node/2393531).