Installing Drupal

My search no longer works. It will find posts I made a few months ago, but more recent entries will come up blank. For example: If you search for "Katrina" you get no results, even though I mention the Hurricane in this post: http://www.brainshrub.com/crickets

However, references to "Military" do come up from earlier posts I've made.

I asked my provider "OpenSourceHost" to make sure my cron-hook on the server level is set up correctly and he wrote:

Hello everyone--

I've installed everything on my OS X 10.4 system and drupal runs perfectly on my own machine using "localhost/drupal" as specified in the handbook. Now, I want to serve the site off of my own computer so external users can access it and add content before moving the whole thing to a hosting service.

I'm on a verizon DSL, which blocks port 80, so I've changed apache's port to 8081 and am forwarding all calls to this port to my local IP on the network. I am succesfully serving other webpages to external users from my local machine through the WAN IP (http://xxx.xx.xx.x:8081). But when I attempt to start drupal (with http://xxx.xx.xx.x:8081/drupal) I get a "can't find server" error message.

I've searched the forums on this issue and changed the base_url variable in the settings.php file in the sites/default directory (also tried changing the sites/localhost settings file too) to 'http://xx.xxx.xx.x:8081/drupal' which appears to have fixed this problem for others, but I still get the 'can't find server' message when I try to acces the page externally. I know my OS X apache setup is working, because I can get the default apache index page every time.

I'm running the latest version of drupal installed at Library/WebServer/Documents/drupal as recommended.

I'm hoping that there's another settings file that needs to be edited that I'm missing, or somesuch similar easy fix that I just don't know about. Do I have to change something in the /includes directory too?

I'm installing Drupal on my webserver and it's working fine in firefox. I've created a custom theme and it all loads up fine in firefox but when I open it up in IE it says that there is an error on the page and looks like it fails to load the CSS and all I get is the text and red x's all over. From what I've read online this seems to be a pretty common problem although I haven't been able to find a fix for it. The site is at Http://randomfetishes.org. I'm pretty new to web development so I don't know that much about what the problem could be.

I must be missing something because I can't get the navigation menu to show up for anonymous users! I know it's possible because other sites I've set up display the navigation block. Can somebody point me in the right direction?

(drupal 4.6.3)

Thanks.

Hello,

I have seen this topic discussed in previous posts but none of the solutions are working...

Location /drupal/index.php?q=admin/themes/settings
Message mkdir(files): Permission denied in /home/liann/public_html/drupal/includes/file.inc on line 86.
Severity error

I created a directory named files and set permissions for 777, then did the same for files/tmp and I am still getting errors. Are there any other solutions?

Thanks!
Lia

Where can I get location_node?

When trying to use Eventfinder I get this error message:

user error: Table 'mydatabase.location_node' doesn't exist query: SELECT n.nid AS nid FROM location_node a INNER JOIN node n ON a.nid = n.nid INNER JOIN event e ON n.nid = e.nid WHERE e.event_start > 1128609619 ORDER BY n.created DESC in /home/mywebsite.com/public_html/drpl/includes/database.mysql.inc on line 66.

Apparently this issue is caused by recent changes and has been reported. What happened?