Installing Drupal

How to have the 'Welcome' page disappeared and let visitors access the contents published? Thaks!

After installed Drupal 4.6.3, I created my first account, logged in and posted my first page. Now I can see the first page on the home page.

However as I log out the first page published deosn't show up but the original 'Welcome' page is still on the home page.

Hello all,

I've just downloaded drupal-4.6.3 and had a try on one fresh installation and one upgrade of a previous installation. However, I'm getting the error:


Fatal error: Only variables can be passed by reference in /mnt/gm1s1a/users/xxxxxx/htdocs/xxxxxxx.com/blog/modules/user.module on line 1293


Hi - I'm a ways along in creating a Drupal site (www.mediafreeforall.com). Most of what I've done has been on a Mac using several browsers as I check and build the site. (Drupal 4.6) I love Drupal, so I'm not going to let this hold me back...

I'm close to being finished with setup for awhile and during my final checks I noticed...

In Internet Explorer (Mac), when editing a piece of content (logged in is as superuser or any account with the right privileges) the whole area of "Author information", including all the checkboxes for 'promote,' 'publish,' etc, are completely missing, but I can see that I'm correctly logged in, and if I check the source html, all the references to checkboxes and author info, promote, etc are present. If you visit the site, you can create a basic account, which would allow you to add a poll or forum topic or something, and you'll notice that you can't access the boxes for 'promote to front page' or various other options on the new item - same if you try to edit an existing item.

Haven't tried on IE for PC yet, but other browsers, Safari, Firefox, Mozilla, etc seem to work just great for the whole site. I have some contributors lined up, but I don't want to let everybody get going on the site until this is fixed. Damn Internet Explorer, it doesn't even show this Drupal.org site correctly. This is going to drive me nuts if I have to support multiple users asking me why they can't promote, publish (or not), etc. I would love to tell all levels of users to use something other than IE, but some of my expected user's will be somewhat less than computer savvy, and I'd just like it to work for IE as is.

For those who may have experienced a problem with a default 4.6.3. install on IIS on W2K here are my findings. I spent a long time tracking this down and thought it worth helping someone out.

The problem - running Drupal the fiurst time after install simply brings up a blank page, no amount of refresh will help. The mySQL, php and IIS are already tested and working in order apps.

I had a pretty standard PHP4 install with an include_path = "c:\php\includes"

My final solution was to put into bootstrap.inc just above the includes an ini_set command.

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I have multiple sites, seperated by apache2 vhosts.

I installed drupal at site1/htdocs/drupal/ in the first vhost, and setup the mysql database as site1drupal.
I've been using it, and I like it.

So I decided to install drupal again at site2/htdocs/drupal/ in the second vhost, using a new mysql database site2drupal. I AM NOT USING THE DRUPAL site/* MECHANISM, because apache uses vhosts, and I just want to keep these htdoc directories totally seperate.

When I go to this new installation, I get the "welcome to your new drupal-powered" page, and I create a new account. But when I login to that account, it just stays on the login screen, and goes on as if I didn't login (access denied to any page I try).

This is odd because:

• I'm using the same browser that works fine on the other drupal site (I've cleared cookies multiple times to no avail, so there's no cookie collision).
• I am using the same web server, apache server, and php installation.
• I am using the same version of drupal, 4.6.3.
• I went through the vhosts definitions with a fine-tooth comb to be sure they are functionally equivalent (checking AllowOverrides, etc). I have checked for any errant .htaccess files. I've restarted apache multiple times just in case.
• I've gone through all the drupal files to be sure the permissions and owners are the same as in the working drupal site.
  

The newest error that i got says this:

Warning: mysql_connect(): Unknown MySQL Server Host 'http' (1) in /home/steve12/public_html/drupal-4.6.3/includes/database.mysql.inc on line 31
Unknown MySQL Server Host 'http' (1)

What did I do wrong? I installed using cPanel, I got the database all set up, unless I did some minor error. This is installed in a subdomain. Is that a problem?