Installing Drupal

I seem to have got stuck at the end of the installation process, and would be thankful for some help. I've followed every step in the installation document, and have become stuck at step #5 - I can't seem to access my site.

The best progress I've made so far, is to have the following message appear:

Warning: main(includes/bootstrap.inc): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /var/www/virtual/lancefestivalen.se/htdocs/index.php on line 12

Warning: main(): Failed opening 'includes/bootstrap.inc' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/share/php:/usr/share/pear') in /var/www/virtual/lancefestivalen.se/htdocs/index.php on line 12

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: drupal_page_header() in /var/www/virtual/lancefestivalen.se/htdocs/index.php on line 13

What I did to get the message, was simply to move index.php to the root, instead of the subdirectory where I originally put it, so that I get an error message was no big surprise. Rather, I was happy to finally get some results.
But if I move all the files to the root, which seems like a logical step to take, I get an "internal server error" instead...

What could be wrong?

I use:

phpMyAdmin 2.6.2
mySQL 4.1.11

And the server is run on a linux/unix based system (as far as I understand it, anyways...)

REMEMBER: I'm a total newbie at this. I've spent hours just trying to decode some of the posts in this forum. Try to explain as basic as possible, thanks...

The MySQL error was: Lost connection to MySQL server during query
is it possible i made a mistake on my database or somethingelse?

is it available any database or something to download so i can understand better where ( i m not sure thats a database error ) i failed?

Hi

I am just installing Drupal for the first time and have got the following error when I go to the url (www.mysite.co.uk/catalog/Drupal)

Fatal error: Table 'db147267589.users' doesn't exist query: SELECT u.*, s.* FROM users u INNER JOIN sessions s ON u.uid = s.uid WHERE s.sid = '4db0ec6daf3b6c8cb09775cd0546a83a' AND u.status < 3 LIMIT 0, 1 in /homepages/35/d147242810/htdocs/catalog/Drupal/includes/database.mysql.inc on line 66

I was trying to create a new page on my site using TinyMCE editor that I obtained from CVS and the 2.0.3 TinyMCE engine. The page that I created had two main problems that I noticed.

1) The paragraph formating didn't work. The page was laid out with several paragraphs in the editor, but when the page was submitted, it came out as one long paragraph.

2) I had inserted an image using the insert image feature of the editor. The insert image dialog box opened and I filled in the boxes with the necessary information. But when I sumbitted the page, there was no image.

Help. I'm not very good at this than you guys..

I have an Error message after i create user. I'm the first user.

<---1st Error--->
Type: php
User: admin
Location: /drupal/?q=user/1/edit
Referrer: http://localhost/drupal/?q=user/1/edit
Message: Missing argument 1 for password_confirm_validate() in E:\XAMPP
1.5.1\xampp\htdocs\drupal\includes\form.inc on line 595.
Severity: error

Hi all,

trying to get drupal to work still.

using Uniform server, already tried xampp

now i keep on getting the following message

MySQL said: Documentation
#1045 - Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using password: YES)

Any sugestions! Should i start again?

This is driving me crazy

Pleeeeeeease Help!!!!!