Installing Drupal

I've successfully installed drupal - twice in fact, on two different machines running FC2. And spent quite some time successfully adding content in the site. Both had the same problem: The following night the site went blank.

Apparently some nightly job managed to remove PHP's support for mysql. But it was there yesterday! What would do that? How can I fix it?

I realize it's probably more a user or LAMP issue than drupal, but any help is much appreciated...
-dave

i'm new to drupal and trying to get the upload module working.

when i'm uploading a file, it seems to work, but then i see only this:

Delete List Url Size
http://mysite/files/_0 bytes

and after the next action, it disappears.
further, there is no file created and there is no error, or even an warning.

i've played with the path settings for the files and the temporary directory, but no changes..
uploading images with the "image" module is working.

Very enthusiastic about Drupal.

I tried to install Drupal 4.5.2 for the 1st time in a hosted environment (opensourcehost.com).

The install seemed to go great, until I enabled all of the blocks on the admin page (new users, topics, navigation, etc.). Immediately thereafter I get this error

warning: Delimiter must not be alphanumeric or backslash in /home/ddonohue/public_html/modules/block.module on line 354

My site is running PHP version 4.3.10, MySQL version 4.0.22-standard-log

Thanks for any help!!!

I am just a newbie, even in PHP.
Well, I have installed PHP 4.3.10, Apache 2.0, MySQL 4.1.9
But when I tried to install Drupal (after following all instruction in Drupal Handbook, I got the following message: "Client does not support authentication protocol requested by server; consider upgrading MySQL client"

I have used root as the Drupal user name but it doesn't change the situation.

Any clue on what's happening?

Any comment and enlightenment is appreciated.

Allright, I am so confused. INSTALL.txt says:

"If you want support for clean URLs, you'll need mod_rewrite and the ability to use local .htaccess files. (More information can be found in the Drupal handbook on drupal.org.)"

So, I go looking at the handbook in the only spot that I can find any information about Clean URLs, Handbook->Administrator's Guide->Configuration->Initial Configuration->Clean URLs, and this is what it says:

I am installing for the first time but can't seem to get past this issue. When I go to the site root (also drupal's root) I get a "Page not found" message with a link to "home" (which is the same page).

I just upgraded to version 4.5.2, and I think I have the base_url correct as well. Has anyone resolved this issue yet???? I know this issue has been discussed, but I havn't found a solution.

Help is very much appreciated.