Installing Drupal

"Test site, always start with a test site" - imho a really good advice !

So I downloaded the complete MySQL database from production an put it into a test environment, that I prepared before. settings.php has correct entries and - voila - I get the front page !!

Wow, I was happy and tried to login as admin, but it didn't work.
I played around truncating the tables 'sessions, cache, watchdog, accesslog' which I thought were possible reasons for that problem.

I have just installed drupal using phpmyadmin on a local Windows webserver running WAMP (PHP/MYSQL). Everything appeared to go reasonably well, although there are no instructions for phpmyadmin installs.

I can see the page at localhost/drupal which says the site has been set up and gives instructions on creating the first account, setting up admin and configuration, etc., but there is no sidebar or top menu ... just:

Hi,all
I am new in drupal.I have installed drupal on server,everything seems ok.
But fail to sent the the when register account.
The error is "550 5.1.1 ... User unknown",
but the user is a valid user.

Where can I modify the mail properties,such as smtp server,from address etc..

Hope any one help me
Thanks very much.

Follow is the mail log:

----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----

(reason: 553 Relay restriction.)

----- Transcript of session follows -----
... while talking to webmail.decisci.com.:
>>> RCPT To:
<<< 553 Relay restriction.
550 5.1.1 ... User unknown

--k1O1QFPG015670.1140744375/oodnadatta.decisci
Content-Type: message/delivery-status

Reporting-MTA: dns; oodnadatta.decisci
Received-From-MTA: DNS; localhost
Arrival-Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2006 17:26:11 -0800

Final-Recipient: RFC822; kaiyuan@decisci.com
Action: failed
Status: 5.1.3
Remote-MTA: DNS; webmail.decisci.com
Diagnostic-Code: SMTP; 553 Relay restriction.
Last-Attempt-Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2006 17:26:15 -0800

--k1O1QFPG015670.1140744375/oodnadatta.decisci
Content-Type: text/rfc822-headers

Return-Path:
Received: from decisci.com (localhost [127.0.0.1])
by oodnadatta.decisci (8.13.4/8.13.4/SuSE Linux 0.7) with ESMTP id k1O1Q9PE015668

Hi all,
I've been playing with drupal for a couple of hours now and frankly I'm not happy.

1. database.mysql failed to load into mysql 5. basic problem was lack of defaults on the block table caused replace commands to fail.

2. No theme and a very ugly site when it did final come up. Found a reference to the problem in the FAQs that fixed it, but had to do some digging and this would be enough to scare quite a few customers off.

I can't login as admin account because I can't get password ;when i push "create new account" button I got error information as
fellow :
Fatal error: Call to undefined function: mail() in /var/www/html/modules/user.module on line 369

Can anyone help me ,thank you!

I have Drupal running well on a multi-site configuration, with shared users and shared content. However, due to the growth of one of the sub-sites, it has become necessary to separate this sub-site's content from the other sites.

So far, via settings.php, I have set these tables to be specific to the sub-site: blocks, cache, system, url_alias and variable.

In order for the sub-site to have it's own independent taxonomy, nodes and user permissions/roles, what other tables do I need?

So far I know the following are required: