Installing Drupal

Hi,

I dont get the image module working. I keep getting this message: "Failed to upload the picture image; the pictures directory doesn't exist." My settings are:

admin/settings/file system settings:
file system path: files
temporary directory: tmp

admin/settings/image
default image path: images/
default thumb path: images/thumbs/
temporary image path: ./tmp/

admin/image
says everything is ok.

my drupal installation is in /html/drupal-4.5.2/

I notice that with most queries the inquirer gives no information about their setup.

At the very least some information about their system's configuration such as the report returned by phpinfo() or a subset of it should be submitted with the question.

Issues such as

php config - open_basedir, safe mode, script timeout
Control Panel - Plesk, Cpanel, Helm, Direct Admin
OS - Linux, Windows
Drupal base url - http://baseurl/ , http://baseurl/subdir
MySQL Version - 3.23.58, 4.1.x
Level of privileges - Full Root Control, Shared Host etc
Method of installation - Fantastico, Plesk Application Vault, Stock drupal, XController.

All these issues play a factor in helping to solve the problem.

I have some ideas here might help when implemented.

1. A Drupal script that can interrogate the users server environment and include the result.

2. A Drupal script that can report on Drupal's own configuration

3. A database linked to users profiles in which information about their various installations can be installed (optional). The scripts can be used to populate the database.

4. Whenever a user makes an enquiry they can pick on that particular installation for the information to be included with their request.

5. Drupal modules should also be designed/required to output information about how they are configured and also give some information about any external dependencies. They should also include enough assertions and some runtime switches as well.

1.warning: mkdir(files): Permission denied in /home/stackmap/public_html/blog/includes/file.inc on line 77.

2.The directory files does not exist.

I am looking at a better forum than phpBB and found Drupal, which looks very cool. So I have gone ahead and installed Drupal in a subdirectory off of the top level directory of my site. The site is written using PHP.
The base url for the site is http://vcfbuilder.sourceforge.net
I have installed drupal at http://vcfbuilder.sourceforge.net/forums-exp.
The drupal software seems to be working fine. But now if I try and access the top level url, i.e. http://vcfbuilder.sourceforge.net, or http://vcfbuilder.sourceforge.net/index.php, I get an error (not a 505 or 404 or 403)

Fatal Errors Halted Output
Our database has reported errors when requested of information. This is a fatal error and has halted any website output.

Solution:
Occasionally the database server may become unavailable for a second or two and thisproblem can then be fixed by refreshing your internet browser. If that does not work, please allow extra time for an administrator to address and solve the issue.

If I try and access our old phpBB forums at http://vcfbuilder.sourceforge.net/forums, then all is OK for those pages. However all of our code that works from the base http://vcfbuilder.sourceforge.net appears lost. This is the core of the site and I am unwilling to just dump it.

The website is hosted by SourceForge and we have no access to the Apache web servers.

I have tried searching here, and found various pointers about changing the .htaccess file in the drupal install directory. I tried most (all?) of the suggestions, but so far no luck. My current conf.php and .httaccess look like so:

After installing version 4.5.2 I see this error message in the administration page

warning: mkdir(files): Permission denied in /home/httpd/vhosts/mydomain/subdomains/dp1/httpdocs/dp452/includes/file.inc on line 77.

Does anyone know what directory drupal is trying to create?

I have a feeling it could be an open_basedir issue?

Hi - I am new to drupal. And i am trying to test drupal into my website. I am trying to install drupal into the subdirectory of my site. So I configured the database as mentioned and then I created a subdirectory 'drupal' and changed the conf.php file as this

$db_url="mysql://user:password@hostname/databasename"

I then changed my base_url to look like
$base_url="www.mysite.com/drupal"