Installing Drupal

I have just installed Drupal 4.5.5 for the first time and the installation has gone fairly smoothly. (I can't use the latest version because my service provider has not updated to a late enough version of PHP)

One very odd problem though is that I cannot logout ?

The logs say the session has ended but I remain logged in.

Even if I manually add .../drupal/?q=logout on the webaddress bar, the screen refreshes and the 'logout' is removed. The log says my session has ended but I am still logged in ???

Any idea how to fix this?

Thanks

Hi all,

I am having problems getting my images to appear in Drupal. If you goto http://godishope.com/gallery you will see what I am talking about. If you goto http://godishope.com/gallery2 you can see the stand alone install of gallery2.

Any ideas on how to fix this?

Thanks,
Carl

Been learning a lot more than I thought I could by myself, but I'm stuck on one of the (many) crucial drupal things:

Can someone PLEASE tell me how in the heck you install modules into drupal?!?? This will be the easiest question you answer all day -- but I LITERALLY a step-by-step walk-through.

This is what I do:

*I download a module file, as a .zip file
*I unzip it using my unzip program
*when I extract it, the unzipped file is shown as a folder in my selected local drive, with all the unzipped files in the folder. Great.

I'm attempting to get phptemplate themes working, however I've run into a problem where I can't make any of the "theme/settings" settings stick. I'm not getting any errors any place, watchdog, postgres, apache. Yet when I go to "unset" the "Search box" in "Toggle Settings" submit the request, get a positive acknowledgement, and the new page show the box unselected, however the search box is still active, and if I leave the page (go to defaults) and come back the settings are as before the submit.

I have installed Drupal 4.6 onto a PC with Windows XP Pro running Apache 1.3, MySQL 4 and PHP 5
Drupal was dropped into ... /htdocs/drupal and config files edited as follows:

I am trying it out on a networked PC and so I have used its IP address in setting the values in the config files e.g.

Edited .. \htdocs\drupal\sites\Default\settings.php

$base_url = 'http://aa.bb.cc.dd/drupal' where aa.bb.cc.dd is the IP address

Edited .. \htdocs\drupal\.htaccess

I found several topics on this in FAQs and forums, but none could help me..

I'm running Drupal-4.6.3, on Apache/1.3.33 (Unix/Linux ?), PHP 4.3.11, MySQL 4.0.26-standard.
The server sets folder to CHMOD 755, and files to 644 on default.
It's on a sub domain, (like; "test.mysite.org").

This:
/?q=admin/themes/settings
mkdir(files): Permission denied in /.../local/home/.../test.mysite.org/includes/file.inc on line 86.
..and this:
/?q=admin/themes/settings/chameleon
mkdir(files): Permission denied in /.../local/home/.../test.mysite.org/includes/file.inc on line 86

Is there supposed to be a folder "themes/settings/" ? I tryed makeing one with 777, but it didn't cahnge anything.

I have made folder and root folder "files" and "files/tmp" . That is set to CHMOD 777.
I allso set "includes" and "includes/file.inc" to CHMOD 777.
- Is there supposed to be a file in "files/"? I only got my logo there, and it's working fine!
I tried to set all files and folders to CHMOD 777, but it didn't change anything on refresh.

My database is not on "localhost", is there any files that contains localhost directon exept from settings.php? Probably not!?

I'm not an PHP expert, so I'm not able to see if ther's somthing wrong with line 86:
if (($mode & FILE_CREATE_DIRECTORY) && @mkdir($directory, 0760)) {
I tried setting it to "@mkdir($directory, 0777)", but it diddn't help at all.