Installing Drupal

I get this error when installing Drupal 4.5 and trying to access it for the first time to add the administrator account:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: mysql_connect() in /var/www/html/techblog/drupal-4.5.0/includes/database.mysql.inc on line 31

Any ideas? Thanks much!

Hello All:

Hopefully this is in the right forum.

I checked the handbook on setting up fora, and it pointed me to the Vocabularies page. It said to set up a vocabulary and make sure to check off the Forum Type. Sadly, I don't seem to have a Forum Type. Just Page and Story.

Did I miss a step?

Thanks for your help,
- AAA

Hi,

I've already edited the conf.php, here are my settings:

$db_url = "mysql://root:@localhost/drupal";

(I'm testing drupal at my local computer and have installed xampp)

and

$base_url = "http://localhost/drupal";

I've already created a database called drupal. When I now want to launch the drupal folder the following error comes up:

I have a new install of 4.5.0 (on RH9) which I am using to test it before upgrading. I have installed also a number of contributed modules, and I know that might be a cause of these problems. However, I would be grateful if someone could give me an idea of what might be causing the following. When I try to post a new story, I get this at the top of the page:

I have drupal 4.5 running, but can't get a blog client to connect and work. I'm using Firefox 1rc and the JustBlogIt entension. I point it at my site and get the following error back when I try to post.
The requested URL /drupal/node/add/story was not found on this server.

I'm using the Drupal as the weblog type and the default node type (story) and also type (blog) same results.
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