Installing Drupal

RHEL3 (RHAS3, Red Hat Enterprise Server or Red Hat Advanced Server) is a pain to use with Drupal 4.6.x because:

• I have never in my life had anything but problems with up2date,
• RHEL3 does not have PHP >= 4.3.3 (http://drupal.org/node/270).

Here is what I did, more or less.
Notes

• I placed the drupal directory in /var/www/html/drupal-4.6.3 then created a symlink called portal.  This allows me to have other things beside Drupal in the same tree (e.g. /ViewCVS) without messing with rewrite rules and makes is trivial to flip-flop between versions if necessary.  But it requires a redirect in the web root to make the portal transparent. [1]
• You must restart Apache between changes to PHP.  This is only intuitive in hind-sight but is critical!
• I had a terrible problem with PHP segfaults "[notice] child pid nnn exit signal Segmentation fault (11)".  It turned out to be a mis-match between Apache and PHP.  Both were RHEL versions, but due to many and various up2date problems, I had a newer PHP than Apache.  Forcing an update of Apache fixed that problem.

1. Downloaded Drupal tarball and extracted it into /var/www/html/drupal-4.6.3 then followed setup instructions in http://drupal.org/node/260 more or less.
2. Using mysql command line as root:

Hi :
i'm totally new to this subject, but i have been asked to put my drupal on my IIS server so i need your expert help guys.i have been told that Drupal is great but i didn't get a chance to take a look at it yet.
i installed mysql server with the right version, created drupal data base; username and password; and linked them togather. i copied the tables from database.mysql to the new database.
i aslo installed php, which worked fine on my root directory, browsing the test.php page succesfully.i created web extension for ISS 6.0 and i linked that with php5isapi.dl. then i added the extension in the home directory configuration for ISAPI extetion and i linked that with same DLL file.i added index.php and test.php for the documents page list and i moved them up on the list.
the test worked fine, as i said , on the root directory.
now i copied drupal files to a folder and i created a site linked to that folder. i assiegned new port for the site for testing purposes. i did the same exact steps on this site but whenever i try to browes drupal http://localhost/index.php, the browser showes NO INPUT FILE SPECIFIED.
i did the required modification posted on drupal manual for windows, but nothing woked. i modified php.ini for php installation and drupal installation requirments and i played with conf.php but it didn't work.

PLEASE somebody help me with this cus i'm going mad about since i've been working on it for a week with no results.

i guess i'm too stupid to find the right option, can anyone give me a hint please:
where can i spcify the link a new page is accessible throug? the built in help metions somezhing about a link text field in the page form, but i cant see it anywhere! e.g., i want a page that displays news entries, so what do i have to do, to get a link in the navigation that leads to this page?
btw.: if i created the newspage, how do i specify a category thats content is diplayed on that page?
thanks and regards,

joerx

Hi,
using drupal drupal-4.6.2,
I have a weird problem with mysql connection throught apache.

I can connect through php index.php, but when I try to access it through browser I got the fellowing error
"Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (13)"
I had the file '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' and can access through mysql command line and php command line fine, but apache failed to get mysql connection via php.

I have 2 questions:
1. Should I put drupal php files in cgi-bin dir or not?
Now I put into publich_html dir, not cgi-bin, is it correct?

2. I did a simply php file to check mysql connection.

<?
$user="nobody";
$password="mypass";
$database="drupal";
$mylocalhost="localhost:3306";
mysql_connect($mylocalhost,$user,$password);
@mysql_select_db($database) or die( "Unable to select database");
mysql_close();
?>

It works ok when I use
$> php chechDB.php
But when I try to connect it through browser(i.e. apache), I can not get connection.
died on "Unable to select database",
phpinfo() showed mysql info ok(see bellow)

I'm really puzzled about what to do, anyone have tips?

thanks,
Fan

mysql
MySQL Support enabled
Active Persistent Links 0
Active Links 0
Client API version 3.23.58
MYSQL_MODULE_TYPE external
MYSQL_SOCKET /var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock
MYSQL_INCLUDE -I/usr/include/mysql
MYSQL_LIBS -L/usr/lib/mysql -lmysqlclient

Does anyone know what i did wrong?
http://www.peaseblog.com/L29/?q=guestbook/1

Here is my problem:

http://www.onlyonenigel.com/drupal

I've installed the forum module properly, I've created the containers and the forums. When I posted a "test" message, it shows up in the "New Forum Topics" block, but it doesn't show up under its assigned forum. I have uninstalled it and re-installed it... with no luck.

Does anyone have any idea why this is happening and what I can do to fix it?

Rachel