I need help properly setting up my Ubuntu LAMPP server so I can do Drupal development without issues. Currently the issue I am running into is that Drupal is unable to automatically create the settings.php file during installation. During installation of Drupal 8 and Drupal 7, I get the following error message. Note: Drupal was downloaded using the Drush command drush dl drupal-8
Because I made a stupid mistake, I have to start over building my site. I am running on my local PC under XAMPP. In running the Drupal install.php script, I get the following message:
Drupal already installed
To start over, you must empty your existing database and copy default.settings.php over settings.php.
So, how do I empty my existing database? And, from where do I copy default.settings.php to settings.php; I suppose renaming default.settings.php as settings.php
once placed there?
Basically the same problem as reported in this forum by Diederick6019 - new install displays with no formatting at all. Using web developer tools shows that no style sheet is loaded.
Also, when clicking on most items shown on the first page (Manage, Content, Configuration, etc) I get an Internal Server Error.
When running the installer there was a message saying that OPCache was not enabled, and later there was a message saying that the Date/ Time Zone was in error (I don't know how as it was never entered although the location was set to the United Kingdom on set up).
Error: Call to undefined function field_attach_load() in DrupalDefaultEntityController->attachLoad() (line 354 of /opt/lampp/htdocs/glug/includes/entity.inc).