Installing Drupal

2 Really basic question here which I can't find an answer for:

1. How do I adjust a PHP.INI file to turn magic_quotes_gpc setting to '0'. I've found the PHP.INI file in the CGI bin in my domain's directory but I can't figure out how to adjust it.

2. Also where can I find the .htaccess file to do the same thing. I searched through Drupal's root directory as instructed but came up with nothing.

Thanks for the help !
Mark

hi there,

am setting up 2 drupal sites:

idmedia.org.au/articles and
idmedia.org.au/resources

i was wondering how i can set them up so that once a person registers for one they don't have to register for the other, and just use the same login / password combo for both sites...

sorry, a bit of a newbie, and incredibly tired!

thanks for the help :).

Gen / idmedia

Hi, I have a problem with my install. I am at pair networks and they always host the database seperate from your domain. I got all of the .conf setup correctly and now I got an error on line 12 of database.mysql.

I opened up this file and saw some more config changes so I set it up with my db info.

now i get this error.
Warning: mysql_connect(): Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/tmp/mysql.sock' (2) in /usr/www/users/psilo22/change/includes/database.mysql.inc on line 12
Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/tmp/mysql.sock' (2)

I've been trying out the flexinode module with 4.4rc. On a clean installation it works very well, but on my upgraded site I get the following error message when I first preview a new story created using a flexinode content type:

user error: You have an error in your SQL syntax. Check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near '' at line 1 query: SELECT comment FROM node WHERE nid= in d:\www\cvs\includes\database.mysql.inc on line 97.

I have installed PHP with Badblue, mySQL and apache.
Now when I try to open the downloaded drupal file, it would say "No application is associated with the specified file for this operation "
Can anyone tell me what is the problem?
Thank you

"Warning: mysql_connect(): Host '66.235.193.183' is not allowed to connect to this MySQL server in /home/changefo/public_html/includes/database.mysql.inc on line 12
Host '66.235.193.183' is not allowed to connect to this MySQL server"

Not sure what I'm doing wrong here. I am usign a third party to host my website so I do not have access to the Apache conf files. It does seem I can create .htaccess files, so I'm okay there (if hopefully there is a fix for this I can put in the .htaccess)