Installing Drupal

Hi,
sorry, if I put this request in a wrong place, but I've noticed that obviously the hoster of my drupal site has not correctly configured PHP mimetype module", because I have the following problems with uploads:

- Using the core upload module, all files will get an .txt-ending as reported by someone else here:
http://drupal.org/node/41561

I've got this error

Warning: _drupal_bootstrap(sites/default/settings.php) [function.-drupal-bootstrap]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in E:\Apache Group\Apache2\htdocs\drupal\includes\bootstrap.inc on line 845

Fatal error: _drupal_bootstrap() [function.require]: Failed opening required 'sites/default/settings.php' (include_path='E:\PHP\ext./') in E:\Apache Group\Apache2\htdocs\drupal\includes\bootstrap.inc on line 845

on includes\bootstrap line 845

require_once conf_init() .'/settings.php';

is this wrong? its in the defult form..

I don't know what to put in this line _> $db_url = 'mysql://username:password@localhost/databasename';
what to change. do I need it to change? will I change the username and the password base on the username and password of my mysql?

According to the handbook, Drupal should be ok with Postgres 7.3, but the database.pgsql file throws the error:

ERROR: argument type anyelement does not exist

when trying to install it. Reading back through previous posts, it seems like the only solution is to install Postgres 7.4, which I can't do. Is there any alternative?

I am running Xampp, with PHP5 on debian 3.1 unstable.

When I get to point where load dupal, i.e. /localhost/drupal-4.6.5, everything is coming up as text, it looks like this:

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

Any ideas?

Hi,

I'm quite new with Drupal. I have Drupal 4.6 installed on an Apache webserver.

Recently my hosts webserver went down, meaning that I lost my site and had to restore it from backups (luckily I had some). Since then, every time I try to create a new piece of content (node) I get this error:
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