Installing Drupal

I've seen this discussed already a few times but none of the threads helped. Here's my situation:

Hi,

I just try to install Drupal. I created the database and when I try to create the first account, I get the following message :

Fatal error: Duplicata du champ '84419625aa1c1e25cfeee83e15506ed9' pour la clef 1 query: INSERT INTO Drupal_sessions (sid, uid, hostname, timestamp) VALUES ('84419625aa1c1e25cfeee83e15506ed9e30cac6f', 0, '84.4.196.25', 1130802009) in /home/murder2000/murder2000/v6/includes/database.mysql.inc on line 66

Hi,

I'm itrying to install Drupal on a Debain box, so far without success.

Current configuration:
* OS: Debian GNU/Linux "Sarge"
* Apache 2.0.54
* PHP 4.3.10

In my first attempt I installed the Drupal-packages from the Debian-distribubtion (packages "drupal", "drupal-theme-marvinclassic" und "drupal-theme-unconed"); this seemed to work somehow, e.g. I could create the first "admin account", but after logging in the first time, everything else failed completely; e.g. when loading http://domain/drupal/, the Drupal start page appeared without any theme, and when accessing a random feature like "administer", "recent posts" etc., it resulted in "Not Found: The requested URL /usr/share/drupal/index.php was not found on this server". The logfile /var/log/apache2/error.log explained: "File does not exist: /var/www/usr" .

Debian puts the Drupal-files in /usr/share/drupal and creates an alias in the Apache config:
/etc/drupal/apache.conf:

Alias /drupal /usr/share/drupal

[...]

However, Apache seemed to look unsuccessfully for "usr" under /var/www (!) for some unknown reason. With some help from Google I found [1] which claimed, this would be Debian-specific. In uninstelled the packages ("aptitude remove drupal..."), purged the configuration files ("dpkg --purge drupal...") and got the tarball http://drupal.org/files/projects/drupal-4.6.3.tar.gz, which I now unpacked in /var/www/drupal; the Alias for Drupal in the Apache config (/etc/apache2/conf.d/drupal) was removed an the Apache httpd restarted.

Hi,

I am new to Drupal, used Mambo for a while, but for various reasons decided to convert :)

I've got a weird problem I can't figure out myself or find an answer to on the web. Would appreciate any help or comments.

Hi Guys,

I am trying to install drupal-4.6.3 on debian sarge, but I have the same problem from cvs from today oct 31 2005. The database schema file is not read correctly (or I am doing something wrong). I can access the drupal web page, but it is corrupt. The resulting web page and the result of reading in the database file are below. The steps I followed to get to this point are like so:

apt-get install postgres
configured postgress to listen on tcp and permit localhost connections, also created drupal database with owner drupal.
apt-get install php4
psql -d drupal -U drupal -f database.pgsql
This generated many errors seen below.
edited sites/default/settings.php like so:
$db_url = "mysql://drupal:MYDRUPALPASSWORD@localhost/drupal";

This is what I get:

warning: pg_query(): Query failed: ERROR:  function concat(character varying, integer) does not exist
HINT:  No function matches the given name and argument types. You may need to add explicit type casts. in /var/www/drupal-4.6.3/includes/database.pgsql.inc on line 45.

user error: 
query: SELECT COUNT(*) FROM node_access WHERE nid = 0 AND CONCAT(realm, gid) IN ('all0') AND grant_view = 1 in /var/www/drupal-4.6.3/includes/database.pgsql.inc on line 62.

warning: pg_query(): Query failed: ERROR:  function concat(character varying, integer) does not exist
HINT:  No function matches the given name and argument types. You may need to add explicit type casts. in /var/www/drupal-4.6.3/includes/database.pgsql.inc on line 45.

Hi guys, total newbie here. I'm running Drupal off of a remote webhost. I installed in into a sub-directory on my sites public_html. I followed along with the installation instructions, edited settings.php, .htacces, created a files directory, chmod'd 777 them...
All the modules and features work great except when I try to create a page, blog post, or story I get this error: