Installing Drupal

I'm "that close" to having drupal up and running on my website, but I can't post the index.php file until I've got everything configured without hijacking the site's home page.

I'd like to work with a home page called "drupal.php" while I configure Drupal -- and switch it too index.php only after I have everything configured.

I'm not a programmer, but as best as I can tell, I'd want to modify the common.inc file where it currently reads

function url($path = NULL, $query = NULL, $fragment = NULL, $absolute = FALSE) {
global $base_url;

static $script;

Sorry for the subject, I didn't know how to express it better.

On my Drupal site I activated "require admin authorization" for user profiles, then I receive an e-mail reqesting a new profile.

The problem is that the username on the form is that of administrator (mine) and not that of the user.
The same thing happens if I try to modify somebody else's profile.

Hi.. I have Drupal 4.5.1 installed on a Win2k IIS box. Drupal is actually installed in a subfolder of an existing site, and is just functioning as a test area for me at the moment. Everything appears to be working great, except this postcard module which has me staring at this screen too long.

okay.. here's the problem. ( and yes.. ImageMagick & gostscript are installed on my box & the Image module is too and appears to be working fine)

Im sure this is something that I must have done, but I can not get the URL to work correctly.

How does this work? I have added text for the page and enabled the module. Nothing shows up on the front page.

Any tips on getting clean URLs to work under Apache2? I can get the home page to come up just fine (e.g. http://myhost/drupal).

But when I try to follow a link that is a drupal path (say something like http://myhost/drupal/taxonomy/term/2), I get a "Bad Request. Your browser sent a request that this server could not understand." error.

If I manually rewrite the URL to "http://myhost/drupal/index.php?q=taxonomy/term/2" it works fine.

I've got mod_rewrite logging turned way up, and it looks to me like the right rewriting is happening... in the log it eventually gets to:

192.168.1.1 - - [13/Dec/2004:21:22:12 --0500] [myhost/sid#23c4b0][rid#2289f38/initial] (2) [per-dir D:/drupal/] rewrite taxonomy/term/2 -> index.php?q=taxonomy/term/2
192.168.1.1 - - [13/Dec/2004:21:22:12 --0500] [myhost/sid#23c4b0][rid#2289f38/initial] (3) split uri=index.php?q=taxonomy/term/2 -> uri=index.php, args=q=taxonomy/term/2

but then it does, which may or may not be a problem:

192.168.1.1 - - [13/Dec/2004:21:22:12 --0500] [myhost/sid#23c4b0][rid#2289f38/initial] (3) [per-dir D:/drupal/] add per-dir prefix: index.php -> D:/drupal/index.php
192.168.1.1 - - [13/Dec/2004:21:22:12 --0500] [myhost/sid#23c4b0][rid#2289f38/initial] (1) [per-dir D:/drupal/] internal redirect with D:/drupal/index.php [INTERNAL REDIRECT]

(all those paths are correct, btw).

I'm having a spot of bother with the themes in drupal 4.5.0. The problem is that both the custom theme I have developed and the pushbutton theme do not render properly, but bluemarine and marvin render perfectly. When I take a look at the HTML source for a page rendered with the pushbutton theme I can see the pushbutton style.css, but the xtemplate.xtmpl never gets loaded. any idea why?