Installing Drupal

Hi!

I've just downloaded some themes, read readme file, unpacked theme to the theme directory and it does not appear in the theme list in: ->administer ->themes? (there are proper linux access rights to directory and files set)

what could be wrong?
(drupal 4.6.1, theme for example manji - can't set manji at all? why?)

Daniel

In my forums, where messages should be listed, there is only a 'XML' button. When clicked, it brings me to the message, with it's information in XML form and a message saying it has no styles.

A test page is here:
http://politicalmodel.org/?q=forum/2

I have set up some databases in Dutch, German, and Italian on my local workstation (W/XP) and want to transfer the content of the DB's to the Unix server. Very straightforward you'ld think. I dump everything out of the database using PHPmyadmin, download it into the server and upload again with mysql command line.

Everything works fine, except.... all the special characters (such as:
Double quotes : “open-close”
Single quote: ‘open-close’
line – dash
éèàçâä
etc.) come out completely garbled.

I have install Drupal 4.6.1 with default.
I need to be able to organize the database field with a prefix.
But when I set the $db_prefix, drupal didn't work.
Do I need do anymore, such as edit database?
Need Help!

OK, I'm not a computer wizard, but I tried to install drupal and I had some problems:

First I tried installing the usual way, but I got "500 internal server error". So I began editing the .htaccess file. Seems that when I delete

# Set some options.
Options -Indexes
Options +FollowSymLinks

I get a 403 message (forbidden - you have no access to ... on this server or something like that). When I also delete

# Various rewrite rules.

RewriteEngine on

# Modify the RewriteBase if you are using Drupal in a subdirectory and
# the rewrite rules are not working properly.
#RewriteBase /drupal

# Rewrite old-style URLs of the form 'node.php?id=x'.
#RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
#RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
#RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^id=([^&]+)$
#RewriteRule node.php index.php?q=node/view/%1 [L]

# Rewrite old-style URLs of the form 'module.php?mod=x'.
#RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
#RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
#RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^mod=([^&]+)$
#RewriteRule module.php index.php?q=%1 [L]

# Rewrite current-style URLs of the form 'index.php?q=x'.
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?q=$1 [L,QSA]


I can get to the start page. But I get the following error at the top of the page:

Hi everyone I'm having some issues with two of the includes files. I'm hardly a php wiz so I'm not quite sure what it's finding wrong with it. It looks fine to me but then again I've not programmed since the 80's :P

Anyways Drupal is running on a debian system with requirements met to run it. I admit I've thrown in a few old modules but my fiddling with those was limited and I did check to see beforehand if they were compatable. They were the creative commons, guestbook, and IM modules. For IM I did alter the one comment that had changed in the Drupal version change. As for creative commons I wish I could make it default for the same license on all pages and quit asking me to fill it out(it isn't displaying it's graphic so I've turned it to text, then shut it off til I'm done setting up the site). As for guestbook only thing I wish I could alter it to find someway to mass feed it a flat file from an old site and set a static page with 2 versions or catagories of it. Reason being I had a friends memorial page up on my old site and people still seem to look for that site as it was linked off of userfriendly.org and two other sites.(it simply contained links, a few pictures, prayer book - guestbook and comments to the family - guest book) He just died in March at age 22...

Well to my current problem. As I figure the modules will eventually get updated properly to drupal 4.6.1 later and I might stick in feature requests for those 2 modules. I'm getting the following 3 errors and I tried post the applicable bit from the include files that the code refers to however I got the "terminated for suspicious input data".(and yes I did alter the path when pasting.) In case it has any relevancy to these errors I'm using the Gespaa theme and in the other persons case they are using greybox. Anther person that is also using Gespaa seems to get same error as me. Also the IM module appears to work fine as does the guestbook.