<p>Installation profiles define additional steps that run after the base
installation of Drupal is completed. They may also offer additional
functionality and change the behavior of the site.</p>

<h2>WHAT TO PLACE IN THIS DIRECTORY?</h2>

<p>Place downloaded and custom installation profiles in this directory.
Note that installation profiles are generally provided as part of a Drupal
distribution.</p>

<h2>DOWNLOAD ADDITIONAL DISTRIBUTIONS</h2>

<p>Contributed distributions from the Drupal community may be downloaded at
<a href="https://www.drupal.org/project/project_distribution" rel="nofollow">https://www.drupal.org/project/project_distribution</a>.</p>

<h2>MULTISITE CONFIGURATION</h2>

<p>In multisite configurations, installation profiles found in this directory are
available to all sites during their initial site installation.</p>

<h2>MORE INFORMATION</h2>

<p>Refer to the &#34;Installation profiles&#34; section of the README.txt in the Drupal
root directory for further information on extending Drupal with custom profiles.</p>