Installing Drupal

The emails that presumably get sent upon user registration and when requesting a new password are not working. I've checked the php settings, I've written a simple email script and called it directly (works fine), but my Drupal installation cannot send mail. I installed the smtp.module which I read about here http://drupal.org/node/view/7232#10957, and nothing changed. I don't know how to go about testing and debugging from here. Any suggestions?

Thanks,

-Robert Douglass

I installed drupal on my laptop, follwing the instructions precisly. The forumn up, but when i goto create a new user account, I get kicked back to the main page. All the links on the page behave in the same fashion.

eg: "create the first account" <-- this link points to http://localhost/drupal/?q=user/register.

I dont understand why the "index.php" is missing before the ?q=user/register

I read many of the posts, but I was still unable to resolve thi issue. Does anyone know how I can correct this or point in the right direction?

Thanks

Latest cvs from 2004-07-03
setting: private download method with a "files"-directory not visible from the web
I used the flexinode.module to upload files. Files werde uploaded successfully (They are in that folder after uploading) but trying to download them ends in a blank screen. The link http:///system/files?file= does not work.
The same problem with pictures in /files/pictures.

All hints in discussions concerning that problem i found do not resolve that problem.

Any suggestions??

Latest cvs from 2004-07-03
setting: private download method with a "files"-directory not visible from the web
I used the flexinode.module to upload files. Files werde uploaded successfully (They are in that folder after uploading) but trying to download them ends in a blank screen. The link http:///system/files?file= does not work.
The same problem with pictures in /files/pictures.

All hints in discussions concerning that problem i found do not resolve that problem.

Any suggestions??

After installing the latest version of drupal all access to any of the sites content was forbidden even after checking all the mysql configuration and such. After I finally contacted tech support, they told me that it was a problem with my .htaccess file.

After commenting out the lines:

Options -Indexes
Options FollowSymLinks

I could finally log in.. but how will this affect the site? Will it cause security problems or future problems down the road, or is this a genuine fix? Frankly... I'm just not sure what these lines do.

What means this error?
Where I have mistaken?
Sorry my English.
Thanks to all

Warning: mysql_connect(): Access denied for user: 'filemakertrizero@localhost' (Using password: YES) in /var/www/html/drupal/includes/database.mysql.inc on line 12
Access denied for user: 'filemakertrizero@localhost' (Using password: YES)