Installing Drupal

I read the whole printable version of drupal installation document. But i didn't get the solution of my problem. My Problem is :

This is the error i get when i open localhost/drupal after installing:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: mysql_pconnect() in /usr/share/drupal/includes/database.mysql.inc on line 12

I searched the forums for this error and didn't find anything, apologies if this is a common question...

pretty sure i have my db perms set correctly, etc.

any ideas?

I'm running into problems others have seen, but none of their solutions seems to work.

After installing and setting up the database, I get a screen that says:

Access denied
You are not authorized to access this page.

The apache error log does say much. It just says:

File does not exist: C:/htdocs/misc, referer: http://valor/drupal-4.3.2/
File does not exist: C:/htdocs/themes, referer: http://valor/drupal-4.3.2/

Having patched user.module with the 43.patch I receive one tiny error, related to help pages. This fails (only the actual line):

-       print theme("box", t("Distributed authentication"), user_help("user/help#user"));
+       print theme("box", t("Distributed authentication"), user_help_users_da());

This seems totally unrelated to my actual problem, so I assume that the system is patched correctly.

THUS, I have set up ldap_integration, and the actual authentication works fine, BUT when I click "My account", I receive an error:

warning: ldap_get_values_len(): Cannot get the value(s) of attribute Decoding error in /var/www/modules/ldap_integration.module on line 225.

warning: ldap_get_values_len(): Cannot get the value(s) of attribute Decoding error in /var/www/modules/ldap_integration.module on line 225.

I take it this is connected with setting up the $ldap_migrate array, but I have tried using only "mail" => "mail", and no matter what I seem to do with $ldap_migrate I receive error messages.

Anyone?

Hello everyone.
after updating apache to 1.3.29 , my site is giving a 404 error, and after i mistakenly deleted .htaccess file, am getting FORIDDEN 403 error , this is one site :) while the other one, the main page is loading fine but all links are not working.
i can anyone help please ?

thanks

First time I point to localhost/?q=node/add/story, page shows, but textarea still in text-mode.
Second time the same page doesn't shown at all. After I clean up htmlarea table, page shows up again.
I played with config, disable "Default for New Textareas", clean up table - ok, page shows. Enable "Default for New Textareas", page still shows up :)) I don't understand it.