@Gerhard I like the idea of using the host the admin used. This is the safest and probably 'correctest' bet ... @Moshe Installing to default is good, until you decide to go to multi site, like I did from 4.6 to 4.7. NOW you have unportabe data, since all the images and files are now in sites/example.com/files and not in sites/default/files. I had to manually edit many nodes to change the paths for images and files. The reverse is seemless though: if a sites outgrows the current multisite install, and I decide to go from sites/example.com/files to a single site, everything is where it is and it is more portable that way. @Neil I also found out the same: if you copy the default settings.php to example.com/settings.php and point your browser to the url http://example.com, then install.php will be called and it works the same way as if on default/settings.php Very convenient ... @Jeff Substitute example.com with www.example.com above :-)