Installing Drupal

When I enable Clean URLs, Drupal can no longer find the pages;
I guess mod_rewrite lacking, but phpinfo() says it's installed.
Some refer to the Drupal .htaccess file but I couldn't find that.
I made my own with:
php_value session.save_handler user
php_value session.cache_limiter none
DirectoryIndex index.php
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?q=$1 L,QSA

I can do without Clean URLs for now, but if the site runs/builds
and then Clean enabled later, will that be a retrospective problem?

Has anyone had success in getting the ldap module to work with 4.3x? I'm not green to php but, I've been pulling my hair out on this one. I downloaded the Authentication archive which had various methods for authenticating (yahoo, delphi, etc). No luck!

I run drupal on a Linux server. Due to change of platform to W2K I copied the files and DB. installed it on Win 2K , IIS PHP4 and MySQL. Also I did install c:/php/pear with all /DB/ *.php files on the WK2 server.
When starting the browser I get an error: Now I get the following error on the browser:Database problem: DB Error: not found.
On the W2K I have installed: c:\php4\pear\DB and all the common.php -- xxx.php
Must I use pear anyway?
Dirk.

I ran drupal on a Linux server. Due to change of platform to W2K I copied the files and DB. installed it on Win2K + IIS and MySQL. in conf.php I put: ini_set("include_path", ".;c:\php4\pear"); Now I get the following error on the browser:Database problem: DB Error: not found.
On the W2K I have installed: c:\php4\pear\DB and all the common.php -- xxx.php
Must I use pear anyway?
Dirk.

I've almost got drupal up and running...
I actually got the index to load but i get an 'Access Denied' error in the body of the page.
I can see the login on the right side but it doesn't work.
Maybe I need to provide more details?
someone please help, i really need all of this to come together and i'm getting rather nervous due to time constraints..
Thanks in advance for anyone who gives me some of thier time.

Brandon
bpayne111@yahoo.com

I've almost got drupal up and running...
I actually got the index to load but i get an 'Access Denied' error in the body of the page.
I can see the login on the right side but it doesn't work.
Maybe I need to provide more details?
someone please help, i really need all of this to come together and i'm getting rather nervous due to time constraints..
Thanks in advance for anyone who gives me some of thier time.

Brandon
bpayne111@yahoo.com