Installing Drupal

Hello,

I made a Drupal site about a month ago, but then had to reinstall my whole system again. Luckily I had a copy of most of the files, so I thought it would be an easy task...

... but this is a nightmare:

i can make a new site and start it properly, but I can't manage to make my old site come "alive again". The funny thing is that it shows the front page with all the nodes I had before, but when I try to get in it says this:

"The requested URL /usr/share/drupal/index.php was not found on this server."

An installation has been failing. It cant connect to the mysql socket.

My installation of mysql has a socket file in an unusual place:

/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock

while drupal wants to connect to a socket to

/tmp/mysql.sock

I could "fix" my mysql settings, but I fear I could break other client connections.

I would rather redirect drupal to the active socket

How do I do this?

I now have images working fine except for two small glitch with thumbnails, and I have loaded the latest image module 1.15

The thing is if I publish an image it displays the thumbnail correctly but it is not clickable through to the larger image on the trimmed page. I can view it fine on the node, and if you click on galleries you get a nice clickable thumb - just the trimmed page is the problem.

Have just installed 4.4.0 and its working great .... (almost)

I have image magick working, I can upload images under create content, html area is working, but when I try to insert an image using htmlarea it doesn't work.

What happens is that the image gets loaded up OK to my defined path upload/images/filename but in the preview area of the insert image js it has a different path ?q=image/view/nodeid

If I can get the latter url changed to the former everything will be sweet!

I am using xtemplate

Any ideas anyone?

Thanks in advance

Hello and thanks in advance:

I have performed the installation and this is what I get:

warning: ini_get, ini_get_all, ini_alter, ini_set, get_current_user, get_defined_constants, get_include_path, php_ini_scanned_files, php_uname, phpcredits, restore_include_path, set_include_path, set_time_limit, version_compare, zend_version, getmyinode, getmypid, getmyuid, getmygid, getopt, getrusage, assert_options, assert, dl, mysql_pconnect, shell_exec() has been disabled for security reasons in /var/chroot/home/content/v/a/n/vanorg/html/includes/common.inc on line 85.

I assumed Drupal would be as simple to install as all the other cms. First problem I had was downloading it. It only comes in one flavor -- tar. Worse, still it didn't download correctly with Mozilla: it kept trying to unzip itself with winzip, no matter that I no longer have winzip.