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Excuse me I am new to Civicrm and got stuck, I installed Civicrm-drupal from github, I wanted to check if the configurations are correct so I ran the command "civix civicrm:ping", but I got this exception:

[Exception]
Failed to locate civicrm.settings.php. By default, this tool searches the p
arent directories for a standard CMS (Drupal, WordPress, etal) and standard
civicrm.settings.php. Symlinks and multisite configurations may interfere.
To customize, set variable CIVICRM_SETTINGS to point to the preferred civi
crm.settings.php.
civicrm:ping

I searched for this exception and found out that I need to change the directory where the civicrm.settings.php is, and usually it is in this path: sites/default/civicrm.settings.php.

Now the problem is that I can not find Civicrm.settings.php anywhere, not in the above path nor anywhere.

Please advise me.

Regards

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Normally you don't install from github you would get it from https://civicrm.org/download and then follow the instructions at https://docs.civicrm.org/sysadmin/en/latest/install/drupal7

If you are looking to do development it might be easiest to start here instead: https://docs.civicrm.org/dev/en/latest/tools/buildkit/

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  • Do I download Civicrm from this link civicrm.org/download if I am working on Ubuntu?
    – Hagar
    Oct 5, 2019 at 21:15
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    Yes. All operating systems.
    – Demerit
    Oct 5, 2019 at 21:17
  • Ok, thanks very much
    – Hagar
    Oct 5, 2019 at 21:19
  • I am sorry, a last question please, is civicrm.settings.php.template the same as civicrm.settings.php ? @Demerit
    – Hagar
    Oct 5, 2019 at 21:27
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    No. You need to follow the instructions at the link above in the admin guide, which will install civicrm, and it will create civicrm.settings.php. If you need step-by-step help you can go to chat.civicrm.org or consider contacting someone from civicrm.org/partners-contributors
    – Demerit
    Oct 5, 2019 at 21:35

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