Installing Drupal

hello all,

i am new to drupal. i am trying to install drupal 4.6 in my local server. I follow the installation instruction step by step. This is how I did:
//as root
mysql> CREATE DATABASE drupal;
mysql> GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON drupal.* TO nobody@localhost IDENTIFIED BY 'password';
mysql> flush privileges;
mysql>\q;
#mysql -unobody -ppassword drupal;
mysql>login sucess;

I notice there is only a mysql database script for the flexinode module. I can translate this easily for postgresql, but ... does anyone know of any incompatible SQL in the flexinode module code? I'm going to give it a try. I'm using drupal 4.6.1.

Hi,

I have installed a wamp and localhost apache, mysql and phpadmin are working just fine, but drupal does not work.

Drupal v4.6 in the httpd root docs folder and I have run through the install steps exactly as laid out in INSTALL.txt a number of times ( my used install text are given below ).

The ( 45 table ? ) dB is shown as created sucessfully in phpmyadmin however when I go to http://localhost I get error messages rather an a config interface so I've seen nothing of drupal yet ! HElp !

Error messages I get:
(a) "unable to select database", or after some fiddling with the two lines in settings.php
(b) line 31, includes\database.mysql.inc, password or authentication problem etc.

BTW how does drupal know which MySQL database to choose - it dosent seem to be told that anywhere in the install.txt install process. phpmyadmin shows a number of databases in there that are precreated witht he wamp server i am using ?

I'm a mySQL command line newbie and this is something to do with passwords - i think. The SQL cmd line dosen't like passwords with he first couple of commands ( so I issue the commands without entering passwords ). Then it seems to take them.

I'm using database = base21, user name= db_45, password = tfgryhe.

Can someone correct the below code for me.

Thanks !

---- instructions given at the command line below ---

mysqladmin -u user_db -p create base21

* Create database, create user for database (A tool like phpmyadmin makes this easy)
* Create tables (using phpmyadmin, go to database -> SQL -> load database.mysql file which comes with drupal in /database/ directory)
* Configure: Edit /includes/conf.php
o enter database details (user, password, database name, host name)
o enter base url
* Start using by creating the first user account

I cant seem to find this conf.php or anything like it. Is there a place I can download it or something?

I use CPanelX for my hosting, and phpMyAdmin for database assistance... and i'm facing the following problem

This quote is taken from Drupal Installation Manual
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4. CONNECTING DRUPAL

I'd like to configure a single Drupal installation to support a few different sites on a laptop (for testing purposes), differentiated by port number.

I.e., the different sites would be accessed as 127.0.0.1:80, 127.0.0.1:8080, and 127.0.0.1:8081, and they would use separate databases.

Is this possible? Or is there a way of doing this with fake host names somehow?

I'm using Debian Linux.

Thanks,
Kevin