Installing Drupal

Hey,

Im using redhat, apache 1.3.29, drupal 4.3.1 on the following sites-
nettrip.org
nettrip.org/alienation
revolutionmedianetwork.org
which are all on the same server, set-up nearly identically..

however, on revolutionmedianetwork.org, theres an intermittent problem where the page loads with no visible html (though the source reveals it to be the fameset/redirector page).

PLEASE help out, any help on this subject would be deeply appreciated! it makes drupal unusuable and is making me crazy.. ;)

I've followed the installation steps (except I added the database through phpMyAdmin). My Drupal installation is in a subdirectory (as in www.mydomain.com/team).

When I go to that URL to start up Drupal, I'm shown the conf.php file as text, followed by:

Database problem: DB Error: not found

Here are my relevant conf.php lines:
$db_url = "mysql://joeadmin:pwd@localhost/team";
$base_url = "http://www.mydomain.com";
$db_prefix = "";

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?