Installing Drupal

Hello..this is probably not ok, but I keep getting my post cut off. Hopefully starting a new thread will solve. it. I had one gentlemen that was helping me in the other thread.

After days of pleading, I finally got Ipower to grant me lock priviliges. Hooray. However, I'm still lost. After they granted me the priviliges, I thought it would be part my permissions.

But what still shows as priviliges are:

Select - Insert - Update - Delete - Create - Drop - Index - Alter

Next, I thought I would try the suggestion to use the SQL statement provided. Which was:

Hi, I'm a first time user of Drupal, but no stranger to PHP CMS (Mambo, SiteX), My interest in Drupal is largely due to what seem to be a solid set of useful modules and good multilanguage support, without the complexity of Mambo.

I have to say though that my first experience (like most other people it seems) is painful.

Here's why:
The installation instructions, and most of the responses to similar newbie threads seem to assume the following:

• I have my very own server which I am able perfrom command line instructions on
• My MySQL database either doesn't exist, or is exists but is empty
• That i would happily install Drupal to the root directory of my domain or subdomain, using up a precious MySQL database, when all i want to do is see if I can make Drupal do what I need it to do.

In reality and in my experience, the largest potential benificiaries of a system like Drupal actually have the following:

• Some webspace hosted remotely
• FTP access
• No command line access
• PHPMyadmin - THE most popular MySQL database tool available
• An existing My SQL database
• Existing tables in that database which they do not want to screw up by running a script which creates tables without any prefixes

Ok,

So I got version 4.7 to avoid the template problems I was having. That worked.

In creating my initial account I got an error since I don't have a mail server.
(I suppose this isn't too important if all I want to do is play around with the program a bit)

But it won't validate my password. It gives me this error

Hello first of all i love drupal :)
Ok so far for the complements :D
But i got a little problem (probably a n00b prob but hey we all were n00bs :P)

I have installed Drupal on PC with IP 192.168.200.2 (everything, anybody, all ip's full acces)
If i type URL localhost the page is shown correct see picture @ http://img306.imageshack.us/img306/894/drup8tx.jpg

hi,

i'm trying to install drupal on a hosted site and i'm not able to connect to the main site. i'm using 4.7.0 beta 4 - the error i get is

Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_CONSTANT_ENCAPSED_STRING in [editted out]/sites/default/settings.php on line 95

i've looked through and reviewed line 95 and it can't see what would be causing this issue.

thanks.

ts

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_CONSTANT_ENCAPSED_STRING in C:\Apache2\htdocs\drupal-4.6.5\sites\default\settings.php on line 87

What is bizarre is line 87 is right in the middle of a comment. The next thing down is the base URL statement

This is what I have:

Windows XP
Apache 2.0.55 with php 5.1.2
I've created a "drupal" mysql database 5.0.18
I've loaded the tables into it.

I tried to access the index.php and got the above error.

I am a bit baffled. Any help will be appeciated.