Installing Drupal

How to add the patches in the windows environment?

Example: When installing acidfree module,

NOTE: this patch MUST be applied to the filemanager source
or acidfree will not work correctly. To apply, do something like this:

cd modules/filemanager
patch -p0 < path/to/this/patch/filemanager-acidfree.patch

What is the equivalent procedure using windows?

Thanks & regards,
Amar

I keep seeing some really whacked out URLs in the logs under administer. The resources simply don't exist and I can't figure out where the user is getting them from.

Example: "/some_directory/misc/drupal.css"

"some_directory" exists.
"misc" on the other hand isn't something I created (no directory no URL alias) and why "drupal.css"?

The server I'm using (SourceForge.net) mounts the project directory read-only and thus does not allow writting any of the directories under htdocs of my project. Certain things, especially "image" module do not work with the RO files directory.

Any ideas how to work around this issue? Has anyone installed drupal in SourceForge environment before?

I quote from SF documentation:

"Group Directories are Read-Only: The project web servers mount project group directories read-only. The following means are available for storing writable data (i.e. for project applications):

* Place the data in the MySQL database provided to your project. Projects are encouraged to make use of our project database service for application data storage.
* Place the data in the /tmp/persistent directory, accessible from and shared between the project shell and web servers. Projects should create their own subdirectory in /tmp/persistent and make frequent backups of the data. We strongly discourage the use of file-writing applications with our services, due to the security implications of our shared web environment. Users of applications in the project web services that require file-writing are strongly encouraged to look for alternatives that can use a MySQL database for data storage instead."

Now I have tried the creating /tmp/persistant/voytechs directory and doing a soft link "l

I keep getting the above error when trying to configure my site, upload new files etc. I'm using a shared server and the directory listing for the directory with my drupal installation is as follows (with my actual username replaced by "username"):

-rw-r--r--    1 username   username        20K Aug 15 01:43 CHANGELOG.txt
-rw-r--r--    1 username   username        749 Jan  9  2005 cron.php
drwxr-xr-x    2 username   username       4.0K Aug 15 01:50 database
-rw-r--r--    1 username   username       8.2K Jun 11  2003 favicon.ico
drwxrwxr-x    2 username   username       4.0K Sep 28 21:28 files
drwxr-xr-x    2 username   username       4.0K Aug 15 01:50 includes
-rw-r--r--    1 username   username        595 Aug 21  2004 index.php
-rw-r--r--    1 username   username        10K Apr 23 06:07 INSTALL.txt
-rw-r--r--    1 username   username        18K Sep 15  2004 LICENSE.txt
-rw-r--r--    1 username   username       1.4K Sep 15  2004 MAINTAINERS.txt
drwxr-xr-x    2 username   username       4.0K Aug 15 01:50 misc
drwxr-xr-x    7 username   username       4.0K Sep 28 21:37 modules
drwxr-xr-x    2 username   username       4.0K Aug 15 01:50 scripts
drwxr-xr-x    3 username   username       4.0K Aug 15 01:50 sites
drwxr-xr-x    6 username   username       4.0K Aug 15 01:51 themes
-rw-r--r--    1 username   username       8.6K Apr  6 20:04 update.php
-rw-r--r--    1 username   username        347 Aug 14 23:33 xmlrpc.php

Problem 1:
When I try to post a new page I get an error simmilar to the one below (the autoincrement value on the nodes table is correct), could you tell me were the increment value is stored because it seems to me that the nodes table is the wrong place.

user error: Duplicate entry '10' for key 1
query: INSERT INTO harrypotter.node (status, moderate, promote, sticky, comment, title, body, format, uid, created, type, teaser, changed, nid) VALUES('1', '0', '0', '0', '0', 'Privacy Policy', '

Introduction.
We take your right to privacy seriously and want you to feel comfortable using our web site. This Privacy Policy deals with personally
identifiable information (referred to as \"Data\" below) that may be collected by us on our site. This Policy does not apply to other entities that we do not own or control or persons that are not our employees, agents or within our control. Please take time to read our Terms of Use.

1. Collection of Data.
Our registration process requires only a valid e-mail address and a unique user ID and password. Providing us with other information is at your option. Please take note that your user name, e-mail address, or other submissio in /home/wizards/includes/database.mysql.inc on line 66.

user error: Duplicate entry '10' for key 1
query: INSERT INTO harrypotter.node_comment_statistics (nid, last_comment_timestamp, last_comment_name, last_comment_uid, comment_count) VALUES (10, 1127925720, NULL, 2, 0) in /home/wizards/includes/database.mysql.inc on line 66.

Hello,

I'm trying to setup drupal on RedHat 9 + Apache 2.054.
The links appears not to be working ...

Clicking on a link gives a dir. listing.

Any thoughts? I'm using the default .htaccess from Drupal.

Regards,

Marc