Installing Drupal

I have been looking into using gmail as my mail handling account to work in conjunction with Drupal 4.6.5

I have searched/read and applied to the best of my understanding the information provided at a number of domains.

Since I started i have tried many times to get this to work on two differant windows systems with slightly differantly configuations.

I am using MYSQL 5.0 with phpMyAdmin 2.7.0 - pl2 with PHP5 on Abyss Web Server running the XP Pro Platform and;

After creating the first user, I can't really do anything.

I have MySql 5. I created a database and loaded it using the database.mysql script. (It did report two errors concerning a non-defaulting "page" field. I decided to ignore this one.

I was able to access drupal and get the first page. I set up my user id. Got the email. But from there, no clue.

I've recently set up Ubuntu w/ Apache, PHP & MySQL. I was trying to install the Drupal CMS on it. I came to step 4 on http://drupal.org/node/43807, where I have to define the db_url and base_url in the settings.php file:

<i>Open the configuration file and edit the
$db_url line to match the database defined in the previous steps:
$db_url = "mysql://username:password@localhost/drupal";
Set $base_url to match the address to your web site:
$base_url = "http://www.example.com";</i>

(This file is located on /var/www/drupal-4.6.5/sites/default/settings.php) I made a copy by doing cp ./settings.php ./settings.php.backup, made the changes, saved it. Didn't work. At first the link goes to my /var/www folder, I then change the base_url to "http://[localhostname]/drupal-4.6.5", and it threw me this error:

<i>Warning: mysql_connect() [function.mysql-connect]: Host 'localhost.localdomain' is not allowed to connect to this MySQL server in
/var/www/drupal-4.6.5/includes/database.mysql.inc on line 31 Host 'localhost.localdomain' is not allowed to connect to this MySQL server</i>

The next day, I looked into the database.mysql.inc file, line 31... obviously the db_url variable in settings.php isn't being passed correctly as it still has "localhost.localdomain" instead of my [localhostname]. I went back to setting.php. Tried to make changes to it... but somehow, it threw me a warning saying I'm "making changes to a read-only file system". I thought it was only a user permission thing. I exited vi, changed to root user, same thing! I then tried to remove the file and start over... same thing:

I was wondering if anyone can help me, after i install drupal on my xamp testing server, i get this:

=================================

{head} {styles}
{_BLOCK_.header.logo} {_BLOCK_.header.site_name}
{secondary_links}
{primary_links}
{_BLOCK_.header.blocks}

Welcome to your new Drupal-powered website. This message will guide you through your first steps with Drupal, and will disappear once you have posted your first piece of content.

Hello everyone,

I am trying to upload the settings.php file. Additionally, I'm trying to connect Drupal, and it seems that I have some errors coming back.

Any idea what the fix could be for the following errors?

Warning: main(includes/bootstrap.inc): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/schieftn/public_html/index.php on line 12

Warning: main(): Failed opening 'includes/bootstrap.inc' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/schieftn/public_html/index.php on line 12

So aggravatingly close. I have the opening page coming in, and I am getting this stuff:

{head} {styles}
{_BLOCK_.header.logo} {_BLOCK_.header.site_name}
{secondary_links}
{primary_links}
{_BLOCK_.header.blocks}

Welcome to your new Drupal-powered website. This message will guide you through your first steps with Drupal, and will disappear once you have posted your first piece of content... etc etc.