Installing Drupal

Hi, i'm trying to install drupal 4.7 (or 4.6.5 - same problems with both). I've got to the point where i'm getting an "Unsupported Database Error". I'm using MySQL 5.0.18 with Php 5.1.2 on OSX.

I searched the forums and found a ton of questions about this problem and a ton of different replies about how to fix it, ranging from using a different hash algorithm to store the password in mysql, to changing php.ini to changing code in drupal around the db connection....

I'm trying to install 4.7 on OSX. I have setup a database, etc. and modified the settings.php in my default folder to include this line:

$db_url = 'mysql://root:fog4@localhost/mydb';

(I know it's not secure, i'm just playing)

I keep getting the error message:

Access denied for user 'username'@'localhost' (using password: YES).

So it seems to me that it's not picking up the username/password from the default folder's settings.php. Any ideas on why that would be?

Hi
I installed Drupal, but when I run index.php folowing messages comes:

Internal Server Error
The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.
Please contact the server administrator, webmaster@tau.ibone.ch and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.

More information about this error may be available in the server error log.

I've installed the tinymce as described in the readme.txt.
Everything looks fine except that I can not see any tinymce in settings neither in access.

Strange ..

Any ideas what is going wrong?

By the way .. I installed tinymce v2.0.4 and the latest update of drupal CVS for tinymce
(tinymce.module,v 1.74 2006/02/23)

following the installation guide here: http://drupal.org/node/260
I get to step 3, and enter the following at my command line (DOS): mysql - u username -p drupal < drupal/database/database.mysql

Hi. Due to my setup (authentication upon going to the URL via pubcookie using .htaccess), when I run the cronjob (cron.php) via lynx, it never "gets through" due to the instance of lynx not getting authenticated. The other option listed on this site, using wget, doesn't work at all. (I know lynx works if the site's not secured).

Is there a way that I can run cron.php directly from a command line? like, through an absolute path to it with php? Or through moving the cron.php file to another directory with a different .htaccess file?

Hope that made sense,
Charlene