Installing Drupal

I installed ImageMagick (http://www.imagemagick.org) first, since the image module's install file said that it had to be installed for image to work correctly. I am using SuSE 9.0 and choose to use the rpm package to install ImageMagick. Then I started the installation of the image module.

In Following the install instructions the first problem was that my copy and paste of the mysql update command didn't work because the Install file gave wrong extension in the command. They used ".sql" instead of ".mysql" which is what the actual file used. Minor but confusing for a newbie.

After you finish the install, the first thing you MUST do is go to Home >> administer >> Images and check to see if there are any errors. It will save you a whole lot of time…. ;-)

When I checked for errors, the first error was: At the location, Home >> administer >> configuration >> modules >> Image -- 'convert.exe' was automatically put in the "Imagemagick Convert path:" box instead of 'convert' which was the files actual name.

The second error was: At the location, Home >> administer >> configuration >> modules >> Image -- it did not like any path that had a leading "/" but it insisted the path have a trailing "/"

The third error was: At the location, Home >> administer >> configuration >> modules >> Image -- it didn't like me creating the default and temporary paths as directories off of the root instead of relative to the Drupal installation directory -- You MUST create them relative to your Drupal installation directory -- i.e. in or in a directory attached to it. (The instructions explicitly told me where they had to be created. Duh…. Sometimes you have to wonder about yourself.)

I'm having trouble with the contextlinks.module. I installed it per the INSTALL file and everything seemingly went well, but the context link syntax doesn't seem to work within any content.

I'm going to guess that the database install feature didn't work correctly, because my MySQL server is behind a proxy and I'm only able to import tables using phpmyadmin. However, the quotes.module works fine and I think it used the same method.

Perhaps it's just me doing something wrong, but I thought I'd send this along for the record.

Hi,
I installed drupal on my web space but i got some error (Internal server error) that I solved changing the file .htaccess in this way:

# Set some options
#Options -Indexes
#Options FollowSymLinks

# Set the default handler to index.php:
#DirectoryIndex index.php

Now it seems to work bu can I get problems in the future commenting these three lines?

Cheers Aress

P.S sorry for my bad english.

I tried installing Drupal per the instructions and get this message...

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Internal Server Error
The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.

Please contact the server administrator and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.

More information about this error may be available in the server error log.

Apache/1.3.31 Server at network23.com Port 80
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Unless there are some initial things to try, let's start at the beginning with possible issues.

The installation manual states this first...

Your PHP must have the following settings:

  session.save_handler     user

In addition, we recommend the following settings:

  session.cache_limiter    none

These values are set in php.ini and can be overwritten in a .htaccess
file; you can print out your local PHP settings with PHP's phpinfo()
function.

First off, the installation came with an .htaccess file. Do I add these settings to that file, or throw the included one away and create my own? Also, when I try to run a phpinfo.php page in the drupal directory, it won't load. It keeps giving me the server error so I can't tell if these settings have been made.

I have added the image module to drupal with everything working:

Default image path OK
Default thumb path OK
Temporary image path OK
ImageMagick convert disabled
GD Library available (version 2) - supported formats: JPEG, PNG, WBMP
Jhead disabled
Image vocabulary assigned

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Other information:

default image path: "images/"
default thumbs path: "images/thumbs"
temporary image path: "images/temp"
image library: "gd2"
imagemagick convert path: ""
jhead path: ""

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I have added the image module to drupal with everything working:

Default image path OK
Default thumb path OK
Temporary image path OK
ImageMagick convert disabled
GD Library available (version 2) - supported formats: JPEG, PNG, WBMP
Jhead disabled
Image vocabulary assigned

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Other information:

default image path: "images/"
default thumbs path: "images/thumbs"
temporary image path: "images/temp"
image library: "gd2"
imagemagick convert path: ""
jhead path: ""

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