Installing Drupal

I have the problem of no xml.so in /usr/lib/php/extensions and I have looked using urpmf and there is no xml.so in any library installed with Mandrake 10.0. there is libxml.so.1, etc but nothing under php. Looking at PHP is also not too helpful and I am worried about breaking the apache/php that I have working.
I do not know what to do next. I had a working installation under 9.2 but I am now stuck.
Can anyone help?

What I did:

I wanted to remove my old 4.3 Drupal localhost installation (that I was experimenting with) and make a clean install of 4.4.1. I moved the 4.3 drupal directory to a different directory off of the root in order to save it and get it out of the way. I deleted the old MySQL database with the "mysqladmin -u root -p drop drupal" command and MySQL said the database and tables were deleted .

Started the new install and followed all instructions. Created new drupal MySQL database as per instructions. I edited the .htaccess, conf.php and php.ini as specified in the instructions and made sure the proper URLs were referenced and and made sure that .htaccess was set up for Apache2.

Error that I got after doing all of the above and trying to log on to Drupal on my local machine:
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user error: Unknown column 'throttle' in 'field list'
query: SELECT name, filename, throttle, bootstrap FROM system WHERE type = 'module' AND status = 1 in /srv/www/htdocs/drupal-4.4.1/includes/database.mysql.inc on line 97.

warning: init_theme(): Failed opening '' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/share/php') in /srv/www/htdocs/drupal-4.4.1/includes/theme.inc on line 51.

warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /srv/www/htdocs/drupal-4.4.1/includes/common.inc:404) in /srv/www/htdocs/drupal-4.4.1/includes/common.inc on line 256.

i posted a reply / question on the thread at:
http://drupal.org/node/view/7963
(i didn't know how to message you)
i am now in middle of trying cms solutions as you once were...
if you please, i could use help from your experience...

edro

i posted a reply / question on the thread at:
http://drupal.org/node/view/7963
(i didn't know how to message you)
i am now in middle of trying cms solutions as you once were...
if you please, i could use help from your experience...

edro

Used Fantastico to install Drupal where my site is hosted.

Attempting to go to drupal/index.php yields the 403 forbidden error plus "Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument..."

Looking at directory, files, perms looks right but index.php is a 0 length file. Empty. Nada. Nothing.

Uninstalled. Removed frontpage extensions as per another thread just in case... Installed. Checked MySQL DB and it's all there okay as far as I can tell.

Version installed 4.4.0

Nothing in the site Error Log

Migration went well -- (4.3.x) however -- e-mail is not sent when creating new accounts.

Thus I cannot get users to self register (http://www.valuesplanet.com). I am not sure where to look into this. After this, I am going to try the upgrade! ;-)

----Martin----