Installing Drupal

From the install new module page, every time i try to upload a new module tar (or same behavior trying to FTP) and after the post back all i get is a blank screen. The module never gets installed.

I'm hosting my own site. I've used Drupal on other paid-for-hosting sites and I've installed modules that way so I know what the intended behavior should be, I'm just trying to learn how to do my own web hosting.

I have seen several comments that suggest that Drupal can deal with the MariaDB fork of MySQL. By most accounts it is an automatic thing. When I get to the Drupal installation page, all I see it SQLite as a choice. I have MariaDB installed and it is responsive... in fact I already created the drupal user and database.

With that, I came here for help. Following the tips.... I checked the installation requirements.....and acoording to what I find there..... it looks like Drupal 7 does NOT work with MariaDB and Drupal 8 does.

Is that the end????

I'm a linux guy but for a friend I've installed the development desktop onto his Windoze 8.1 laptop to allow him to work on his own drupal site. The install went fine and I was even able to untar the backup of his linux based drupal site and import it into the dev desktop as a local site. However, when I try to access the site I only receive the error message "Forbidden - you do not have permission to access /install.php ". I've done everything I could think of to resolve that issue including disabling UAC and assuring all the files in the drupal site tree are read/write.

Thanks very much for the great effort put into Drupal.

Installing Drupal 8 Beta, I have below message

Fatal error: Class 'Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\Response' not found in F:\xampp14\htdocs\drupal8\core\vendor\symfony\http-foundation\Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\RedirectResponse.php on line 22

plz help

Hello, I have actually been trying to solve this problem for over a month, to no avail.

I am trying to create a group of websites with Drupal 7, using multisite.