By bryanb229 on

Hello,

Just starting to get back into Drupal from a long absence and having some start-up problems.

I've followed many guides, but can't get Drupal to install on this setup:

  • Virtualbox host
  • Ubuntu 14.10 server
  • Drupal 7.34

I create the database, move the Drupal files into my Apache directory, but when I run the install script I am getting the white screen and the system is not installing properly.

Also, once I hit submit on the database info form, it will come back up again and then goes white screen after hitting submit the second time.

It seems like the database is populating, but then once I go to my main page, I get a "page not found."

Also tried to login from the /user page, but that's not working either.

This is happening on both Windows and Mac versions of Virtualbox.

Has anyone had any similar issues with this setup?

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wusel commented

Did you copy the .htaccess file to the root of your new Drupal?

Which apache and which php version is running?

Did you search for "install and ubuntu 14.10 and drupal 7" here on d.o. and on google?

Wusel

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bryanb229 commented

.htaccess is there.

Apache/2.4.10

PHP/5.5.12-2

Checking Google queries, but still not getting why this is happening.

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wusel commented

I think NO!

Look at e.g. https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Drupal or http://linuxg.net/how-to-install-drupal-7-15-on-ubuntu-12-10-12-04-and-l... or https://www.google.de/webhp?hl=de&tab=Tw&gws_rd=ssl#q=install+and+ubuntu... for more.

I would guess it could be something like

sudo chown -R www-data.www-data /var/www/drupal/

Did you install/download Drupal from d.o. or from reposities?

Wusel

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bryanb229 commented

Thanks for your help.

I figured it out with this tutorial.

There was some issue w/ Apache b/c once I added Drupal to the /var/www/html directory instead of the /var/www/html/drupal directory, the problem went away.

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wusel commented

There you can read

DocumentRoot /var/www/html

and NOT

DocumentRoot /var/www/html/drupal

Wusel

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Joachim Namyslo
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commented

If you still in trouble go to https:/drubuntu.github.io/drubuntu. This is easy to use and provide drupal 7 as well as drupal 8 right out of the box.

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bryanb229 commented

Thanks for the message.

I will take a look at this option.

If anyone else runs into this problem, I got a comment on the digital ocean article I linked above to

Edit php.ini with the following line:

opcache.enable=0

then run the installer. After install completes comment out the line.

and this fixed the problem.