Can't get past the welcome page (moves to list view)

By randomName on 5 Sep 2006 at 20:05 UTC

Ah, well.
After getting everything installed and configured (Apache, PHP, MySQL and phpMyAdmin), which worked on the third try (all three tries done in the same fashion, go figure) I finally saw the drupal welcome page, and was rather excited about creating my admin account, but nooo...

NO ACCOUNT FOR YOU!
:-P

Instead, whether I select the link below the text fields or the link in the first paragraph, instead of taking me to the next page, it takes me to a list view of the file heirarchy in my root folder.

I have both a phpMyAdmin folder and a drupal folder in the Apache2 htdocs folder. I navigate to the index.php file to bring up the welcome page.
As far as I know, everything in phpMyAdmin is configured correctly; I reviewed the drupal47 install video to be sure. The only thing there that bothers me is the kludgy setup of the config file, though I am fairly certain that's correct, as well.

Maybe I should have just used MAMP. It installs the latest versions of Apache, PHP, MySQL, and phpMyAdmin, and provides a central location for configuring them all.
I installed them seperately instead, because I thought MAMP, despite it's good points, was a bit bloated.

Can anyone shed some light on the situation? I've done a few searches for an answer, and have yet to find one.

Thanks in advance.

Comments

Apache DirectoryIndex directive

styro commented 5 September 2006 at 21:27

Does DirectoryIndex in your Apache configuration list index.php as an option?

That is the configuration option that tell Apache to use index.php instead of listing directories. All (OK just about all) Drupal traffic goes through index.php.

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HAD the EXACT same problem

samoli87 commented 5 September 2006 at 21:32

In the httpd.conf file look for this block of text
#
# AllowOverride controls what directives may be placed in .htaccess files.
# It can be "All", "None", or any combination of the keywords:
# Options FileInfo AuthConfig Limit
#
AllowOverride None

Change the text to look like this:
#
# AllowOverride controls what directives may be placed in .htaccess files.
# It can be "All", "None", or any combination of the keywords:
# Options FileInfo AuthConfig Limit
#
AllowOverride All

That should fix it.

YEAH!

randomName commented 5 September 2006 at 21:49

Fixed!
Thanks Much :-)

No Problem

samoli87 commented 5 September 2006 at 22:03

I had lots of trouble installing it too but finally after searching all over the internet was able to overcome it. I actually wrote an installation document that I think is way better than the one provided here. Let me know if you want it for future reference.