Installing Drupal

I try to get a test Drupal website running locally under Windows98, Apache 1.3.29, PHP 4.3.4 and MySQL 4.0.17

I am sure that I am almost there, but I feel that I need some help now. I include the key details on my installation below.

Erik Wesselius
Utrecht, Nederland

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I followed step 1,2 and 3 from the install file. Everything works fine. I can access the drupal SQL database through PhpMyAdmin, but I get stuck at INSTALLATION STEP 4: CONNECTING DRUPAL.

Here are the details:

The MySQL database for the drupal test site resides at
C:\Program Files\MySQL\data\drupal

My Apache httpd.conf file defines the server DocumentRoot as
C:\phpWeb

I unzipped and untarred Drupal 4.3.2 into the directory
C:\phpWeb\drupal

In the Drupal conf.php file I edited the following lines:

$db_url = "mysql://erik:password@localhost/drupal";

(where 'password' stands for the password defined for the MySQL drupal database)

$base_url = "http://localhost/drupal";

But when I point my browser to http://localhost/drupal/index.php,
I get an empty Drupal page with the text

Access denied
You are not authorized to access this page.

If I try to login with my SQL password I get an error 403 page in return:

Not Found
The requested URL /drupal/ was not found on this server.

Apache/1.3.29 Server at localhost Port 80

The URL in the addressbox of the navigation toolbar of my browser says

I have two problems, the first is that emails are not being sent to new users so they dont get passwords. I have cron.php running. What else could be causing the problem?

Also... Is there any way of changing the "not authorised" page, so anonymous users could see a certain page of infomation?

thanks, liam

I've got the site up but have two problems. i can't get the who's online block to work, yet under configuration/blocks I do not see a block for it. i do see a 'configure who's online block' section and that is set for activity threshold of 10 minutes. statistics module is activated. also, when a user opens the chatbox the secondary window opens so large they can't grab the corner to resize. is that a configurable setting somewhere for this? thanks for any help

Hi.

I'm looking for examples of forms using the form_mail module.
http://drupal.org/project/form_mail
(unavailable in the download section - but is available by CVS)
http://cvs.drupal.org/viewcvs/contributions/modules/form_mail/form_mail....

Is there any site where I can see the form_mail module in action?

Also I'd like to have a sample form to use as a base.

Hi,

I have installed and populated the database and uploaded all the files. I have edited the conf.php file with the information for my site and files. I have double checked the permissions on the directory that contains drupal. I checked the php.ini file and it meets the requirements specified in the install document. But everytime I go the the directory to login for the first time I get a Forbidden Access error.

I have installed numerous other databases and cms' and never had a problem. I am sure it is something I am missing but I can't figure it out. I have read the faq's, and I think every post concerning this issue but still don't seem to be able to resolve it.

Here are the settings in conf.php I am using:

$db_url = "mysql://my_user_name:my_password@localhost/my_database";
$base_url = "http://www.christianfamilyhost.com/community";

Every other database I have installed has used localhost but I don't know if the database actually resides on the same server and I do not have root access to execute the commands I read about in the various posts.

I have renamed the htaccess file and get the following errors:

Warning: main(includes/common.inc): failed to open stream: Permission denied in /home/christia/public_html/community/index.php on line 4

Warning: main(): Failed opening 'includes/common.inc' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/christia/public_html/community/index.php on line 4

I was having problems with drupal 4.3.2: the welcome email would not be sent to new users, but the new password Email was working fine...

Well, after trying anything I could think of (I even installed a new version of Qmail), I edited the welcome Email message (added a new paragraph, didn't delete anything from the original message), and the Email is now being sent... strange or what?...

This could be useful to anyone who´s having similar problems...