Installing Drupal

Ok so i am having problems getting drupal to work.

I followed the instructions in the handbook section for installing.

So i get it installed and what not and do the setting.php configuration, and then i try to go to my site and i get my same old index page, so then i delete my index page, well that didnt help either.

Its as if it didnt even install! I do not get any errors or anything, without the index it just shows the list of files like i would expect.

Can someone help? I have serached the forums and see a lot of similar problems, but not exactly my issue:

These are the error messages I get when I click on my url, I am trying to get to the drupal "welcome
page.

Warning: main(includes/bootstrap.inc): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/hilwv/hawaii-island-www/index.php on line 12

Warning: main(): Failed opening 'includes/bootstrap.inc' for inclusion (include_path='./:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/hilwv/hawaii-island-www/index.php on line 12

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: drupal_page_header() in /home/hilwv/hawaii-island-www/index.php on line 13

What I have done:
I have created the database, uploaded the drupal files, and set settings.php as follows:

* Database URL format:
* $db_url = 'mysql://dbuser:dbpassword@http://hawaii-island.hi.lwv.org/hawaii_island_hi_lwv_org';
* $db_url = 'pgsql://username:password@localhost/database';
*/
$db_url = 'mysql://dbuser:dbpassword@http://hawaii-island.hi.lwv.org/hawaii_island_hi_lwv_org';
$db_prefix = '';

/**
* Base URL:
*
* The URL of your website's main page. It is not allowed to have
* a trailing slash; Drupal will add it for you.
*/
$base_url = 'http://hawaii-island.hi.lwv.org;

I have also tried setting my local host to: http://216.147.119.31, which made better send to me since this is where I want to view the site right now and my domain name is NOT set up yet. However, I get the same exact errors either way.

I just installed Drupal and so far i love it..

however in trying to get Acidfree to work, i was playing with the settings for files, i changed the files path to "/files" thinking thats how i was supposed to be. (i was having issues with Acidfree)

anyways if course i get a error now..

warning: mkdir(/files): Permission denied in /www/t/thegeekdomne/htdocs/Geekdom/includes/file.inc on line 86.

hey,

i install drupal with fantastico, no problems.

i download the latest pathauto from the drupal site.

i unzip it to get the folder and move all the enclosed files into the 'modules' folder.

i go to the settings are and click pathauto on,

then go to create a story and it gives me this error:

Hey all,

Has anyone had problems running Drupal version 4.63 DB scripts with MySQL 5.0.15 ?

I know it's a really newbie problem - I'm trying to install the Drupal 4.63 schema using MySQL 5.0.15 and their Quesry Browser. It's complaining about some of the insert statements (specifically the blocks table) since they don't contain values for non null fields (pages and types).

I've been unable to get the first account to have admin privileges so I'm starting over and noticed these problems.

Thanks,
Russ...

I've go this issue where my site is filled with error messages and will not display content. I can't even get in to edit or config through a web interface. I think my crappy web host did something to their servers, I know they have problems lately because I can tell that they are restoring web content from backups since I see my new posts disappearing. But it looks like either I did something or they did something that is preventing the site from functioning properly.

Maybe if someone reads the errors they will understand it better than me...