Installing Drupal

Hello,
I am installing drupal as the cms platform of a community based on a newsletter. In my plans, Drupal should both deal with the distribution of the newsletter, both with all the editorial process behind it. My problem is that actually I am not able to send attachments with the newsletter. Did anybody have this same problem? may be is a problem of my web hosting setting?

Thank you in advance,
Andrea

i have installed drupal....but for some reason this messgae keeps showing up

"Warning: mysql_connect() [function.mysql-connect]: Access denied for user 'drupalguy'@'localhost' (using password: YES) in c:\wamp\www\drupal\includes\database.mysql.inc on line 31
Access denied for user 'drupalguy'@'localhost' (using password: YES)"

i have been to the settings file and changed stuff like

"$db_url = 'mysql://drupal:drupal@localhost/database';"

but what does this mean and does it have to be changed

During my installationg process of Drupal, I get to the point where you're supposed to create the database and I'm given some Error message from mysql, has any one ever encountered this issue?

Below you can see the steps I took while creating the database as per the directions in the handbook

This one is really weird, and has me totally baffeled.

For the longest time, my invision board was broken on my FreeBSD (5.4) webserver. What happened? When you click any link, it just.... brought you back to the main page again. No links worked.

I brushed it off as a php 5 compat issue.

Now I install drupal, and the problem has come back to haunt me. Occasional links, such as the edit settings link under administration don't do anything. As in, I'll type in the values and submit the form, but then I get dumped to the main page (the default page showing news articles)

Digging a little deeper, I added the following code to both drupal's index.php and invision board's index.php, right after <?

//
// print out the request variables 'n stuff
//
if( ! ISSet( $_REQUEST ) )
{
        print "_REQUEST variable is NULL!!!!!!<br />";

}
foreach( $_REQUEST as $key => $val )
{
        print "'$key' => '$val' <br />";
}

Most pages, it just dumps out the $_REQUEST contents. However, on the pages where it fails to work... I get a "_REQUEST variable is NUL!!!!!!"

wtf?

Invisionboard does the same thing. Actually, anytime I access index.php with something appended (like index.php?showforum=2) it gives the same error.

I've looked the configuration logs, I can't find any problems. I've also looked through httpd-error, again nothing.

What gives? This is making me rip my hair out!! What should I do?

I'm having some issues with 2 things:

1. When I navigate, a lot of the pages do not come up and I have to delete the trailing URL to get back to the page. Is there a setup that I did wrong?

2. Web Page does not work on IE. No images are being displayed and its all text. Anyone have this issue as well? I have viewed many other sites running Drupal and viewed there sites on IE and they are fine..

Thanks for any help!

dudes.

I am running apache 1.3. And when I get to the setting page to set the Enable clean urls it showed me that you should check the Mod Write function in the .htacccess. anyone who does change things and got clean urls plz share his wisdom .

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