Installing Drupal

Ok, Ive been trying for the last day to install drupal and its just not happening for me. The install.txt leaves much to be desired and I want to ask a couple of things and maybe you can tell me where Im going wrong.

First off, I'm installing to an ipowerweb server, where I admin the database through phpmyadmin. I'm able to successfully install the tables in the database but I get hung up on pointing the browser to drupal.

1. When I unzip the files the folder is drupal-4.6.0\drupal-4.6.0. Am I supposed to upload exactly as unzipped or should I be dragging the actually drupal directory to the top level and installing that one folder to the root of public_html, so it's /public_html/drupal-4.6.0/ and not /public_html/drupal-4.6.0/drupal-4.6.0/ ?

2.All the install instructions say point to drupal by saying www.yourpage.com/drupal. Does this mean I am supposed to be making a folder called drupal and uploading the zipped contents to that? Because as the directoy structure exists when it is unzipped and uploaded it would really be http://yourpage.com/drupal-4.6.0 but thats wrong, correct? Or is the /drupal supposed to be your database name, which will be different for me because my host adds a prefix to the database name?

I'm pretty sure my settings.php file is correct but I've also heard people talk about an includes/conf file. I don't have this do I need this?

I think the only thing hanging me up is I might be screwing up the directory of where drupal is looking for stuff. If I can iron this out I think I'll be alright, any help is greatly appreciated.

I posted this once, but I will try again.

I installed Drupal. I get to the admin page and add my name and pw. All is fine till I click on the modules link. Then all pages hence forth are errored. If i uninstall and re do the database, things are fine again. But if i click on the very first page where it welcomes you to drupal, and where it says to use the modules, it errors out.

Please assist.

Thanks in advance,

Jennifer

Hi all,

I already install Drupal 4.6 two days ago. The way I did as following:

Configure the information in setting.php
Upload all Drupal into server.

Finally, it work correctly.

However, today I download the same version of Drupal (v.4.6) and try to do it again on the other server with the same way. But it does not work. I don't know why.

Pls, help me.

I tried to install drupal, and followed the instructions from http://drupal.org/node/17430, except treating /sites/default/settings.php as /include/conf.php. I had to create my sql database with my host too.

At any rate, when I go to my web address, I get the default index page my host gave me (although I've deleted it from my file manager?), so I tried /index.php, and it tells me:
"A file permissions error has occurred. Please check the permissions on the script and the directory it is in and try again."

I have installed tinyMCE and it seems to be working fine. Except - I do not have all the icons even with advanced option selected and this is really a problem as the icons missing are quite critical to me - eg. text color, text bg color and text size

I have searcehed the forums and couldn't find anything. Am i doing something wrong?

In "input formats" i configured the "filtered html" in the way i could use it for Wysiwyg Editor called TinyMce. I enabled allowed tags like br,a, etc. but when i write html code in nodes i get html as output and it hasn't been interpreted. I update Drupal 4.5.2 to 4.6. Could it be a database problem? Sorry for the bad english.