Installing Drupal

I know you dropped support for MSSQL but I searched your forums and found some information about creating a database.mssql schema file and that the existing queries should work. I have created a new database.mssql file, created the database and built the tables. I then tried to put a mssql statement for userid, password, server and database in the settings.php file. When I try to run the site it tells me the database is not supported. Is there any other files I would need to change to allow it to work with mssql? Do I need to create an mssql connection file (database.mssql.inc)?

I am trying to have a multi-site installation with clean urls and have a few problems (it's taken me a while to get this far). I cannot find anything about this in the forums.

My setup is of the form:
mysite/
mysite/site2

My Apache DocumentRoot is set to /var/www/localhost/htdocs and there is an alias to the second site:

Alias /test "/var/www/localhost/htdocs"

My sites dir is set up with default and test subdirs. Multi-site works, and clean_urls work on the base site.

All seems fine until I try to set up clean_urls on the second site (mysite/site2) -- the drupal admin/settings test fails. How can I fix or debug this? Where are the rewrite rules stored for the second site? (I'm assuming that they are in the same .htaccess file -- perhaps even just the same rules). I tried to turn on the urls (and url_test) in MySQL but it still didn't work.

Something is happening with ModRewrite during the test as the rewrite.log that I've set up includes this:

127.0.0.1 - - [15/Sep/2005:18:22:50 --0400] [mysite/sid#80a2bd8][rid#820f150/initial/redir#1] (3) [per-dir /var/www/localhost/htdocs/] strip per-dir prefix: /var/www/localhost/htdocs/index.php -> index.php
127.0.0.1 - - [15/Sep/2005:18:22:50 --0400] [mysite/sid#80a2bd8][rid#820f150/initial/redir#1] (3) [per-dir /var/www/localhost/htdocs/] applying pattern '^(.*)$' to uri 'index.php'

I used Fantastico to install Drupal. I'm not sure now what version is installed. When I log in as an admin I don't have the "Access Control" option under the Administration heading. Is that a newer version thing?

I want to restrict access to the site. What are my options?

Also, I installed private messaging. I get the "View Inbox" when I'm logged in as an admin, but as a regular user I don't see this? Anyone know what I'm doing wrong? Thanks

Hi,

I already did a couple (successful) installations on my own computer but am now trying to do one for a client on a live server. I used Fantastico to set things up and I can access the site, however I have two problems.

First, I want to change the theme to Leaf. This requires phptemplate engine. I uploaded that engine to the Engines directory, now when I try to access "themes" as an admin I get an error that a table doesn't exist.

I'm following direction under the configuration and it seems to be off or I'm completely off.

The directions say:

Enable the throttle module:
Now you need to enable the throttle module. Return to the module administration page on your site at administer » modules and put a check mark in the status column, then click 'Save configuration'.

These above say to put a check mark in the status column. To my knowledge there is no status column. I have two columns in my installation and those are Enable and Throttle. I'm sure that it means the enable column but correct me if I'm wrong. Now I also have to assume that they are talking about THROTTLE as being the check I'm putting in the status column, because it doesn't really say. It just says to do it. So I've done what I think it means.

Now I go to the next step to enable the THROTTLE STATUS BLOCK under the block admin. These are the directions: Enable the "throttle status" block:
In order to properly tune the auto-throttle on your website, we need to have an understanding of how much traffic your site gets. The throttle module provides a block for this purpose. Go to the block administration page on your site at administer » blocks, and enable the "Throttle status" block. For this example, do not check "custom" or "throttle", but feel free to adjust the "weight" and "region" for whatever you prefer. Now click "Save blocks".

Help this n00b, please;)

I think I've installed it OK. Is it OK to run drupal in a subdomain (not a top-level domain, a virtual domain)?

I've created the db in the pair.com Web Control Panel.

Does this look correct for loading the db scheme?

Latest try:
%mysql -u rpluta -p ******** rpluta_DrupalTest < database/database.mysql
mysql Ver 12.22 Distrib 4.0.16, for unknown-freebsd4.8 (i386)
Copyright (C) 2002 MySQL AB
This software comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. This is free software, (and lots of stuff following)