Installing Drupal

I have tried probably over 20 different combonations, but can't get this to work. During the cPanel instuctions, it says that I should:

"Change the setting in settings.php: $db_url = "mysql://levavie_u1:234@localhost/levavie_db1";"

But in the settings.php, it has this in the writing:

"*
* Database URL format:
* $db_url = 'mysql://username:password@localhost/database';
* $db_url = 'pgsql://username:password@localhost/database';
*/$db_url = 'mysql://username:password@localhost/database';
$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 = 'localhost';"

I don't understand if I should fill out all three of these things, or just the first. Also, what does it mean when it says localhost? If my drupal is located at www.drupal.example.com, is this what I should put here?

Another problem that I have been having is when it says:

"Upload the database.

1. Open phpMyAdmin (there is a link in the button of the cpanel MySQL account maintenance screen).
2. Select the newly created database.
3. Open the SQL tab.
4. Extract database.sql into a file on your LOCAL machine.
5. Run the SQL script needed to create the drupal tables by uploading the file from your local machine."

I don't understand where to find the database.sql file. Is it on the server somewhere? Is it in the drupal folder on the server? I also don't understand #5 much at all. Do I run the SQL script with phpMyAdmin or just cPanel?

I'm on IIS 6. Everything was working great. I created a few pages and then finally promoted one to the front page. After this, I got a huge mySQL-type error which referenced "database.mysql.inc on line 66". Now whenever I click any link, I'm asked to download mysite.com[3].

Removing the Session ID directly from the mySQL tables left me with not being able to login at all. Now my browser wants to download index.php....

I see a similar problem here is this the same thing?

Any ideas on what a fix could be?

I installed drupal originally in http://herring.liberalthinkers.org, and now I'm trying to migrate it to the proper place: http://www.herringimages.com. For some reason, the migration has not been sucessful. I copied all the files from the first install to the appropriate places in the second location. I changed the line in settings.php to reflect the new base url. Now, unfortunately, the content is not showing up correctly. Actually, everything is showing up well, except for the Acidfree content. Given that this is brochure site for a photography studio, it's vitally important that the acidfree content shows up correctly.

If you look at the first site (herring.liberalthinkers.org), everything is still working beautifully. If you go to the othersite (www.herringimages.com), you'll see that none of the pictures is pulling up, even though all the other content is. If I click on an album that has a clean url, I get the forbidden error:

Forbidden
You don't have permission to access /architecture/ on this server.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Apache/1.3.31 Server at herringimages.com Port 80

That's right, the server forbidden error, not the drupal built in forbidden error. I copied the .htaccess file exactly over to the new server, too.
If I click on administer, settings, I get this error:

warning: mkdir(files): Permission denied in /hsphere/local/home/brandonh/herringimages.com/includes/file.inc on line 86.

I've been working all day on this to no avail. I am missing include/bootstrap and something else which I can't remember. Please tell me where I can get that file!

Hi,

I was tempted to submit this as a bug report but I just tried to reproduce the error on the live demo and it handles it fine, so I assume there is something I haven't set up right. I just installed drupal for the first time today so this might be an idiot question.

If I try to request a new pasword using a username or an email address that doesn't exist in the database I get thrown the following error:

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I have Drupal 4.6.3 installed on Windows XP Pro.
Using PHP 5.0.4, Apache 2.0.54, MySQL 4.1.7.
I also installed IIS for the SMTP Server.
IIS Default site runs on port 8080, and SMTP on 25

My php.ini settings:
SMTP =localhost
smtp_port = 25
sendmail_from = WebAdmin@localhost.com

I can successfully Telnet to SMTP and send messages.

I have a PHP error in the log files.