Installing Drupal

I think there is a problem with the filestore module and large (maybe greater than 500KB) uploads. With smaller files, all works fine. But if i try to upload a greater one, i got this message:

Location: /drupal-4.3.1/?q=node/add/filestore

Message:
user error: MySQL server has gone away query: INSERT INTO filestore (fileauthor, version, homepage, filename, filetype, filesize, filedata, nid) VALUES ('', '3', '', 'tec.pdf', 'application/pdf', '1791207', '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 in /home/www/web18/html/drupal-4.3.1/includes/database.mysql.inc on line 90.

Is there any size limit? How can i configure this?

it got cut off again - it said:

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 ?php
// $Id: conf.php,v 1.27 2003/07/10 17:46:41 dries Exp $

please let me know what other information might be useful in answering my question: what needs to be fixed with the syntax?

thank you very much,
eva

In Taxonomy administration there's a link to 'preview form'. When I click on it I get page with a dropdown list allowing me to choose a term in the vocabulary. Nothing happens when I change the term. I feel I must be missing something. What's the purpose of this page?

- Mac

somehow the end got cut off and didn't make it in the first message - the error i got was:

Error

SQL-query :

* ? php * / $Id : conf.php, v1.272003 / 07 / 1017 : 46 : 41dries Exp $$ db_url = "mysql://oshusername_username:password@localhost/oshusername_drupal"

MySQL said:

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 '<?php
// $Id: conf.php,v 1.27 2003/07/10 17:46:41 dries Exp $

i am a newbie to all this and learning...

that said, i am following directions on getting started from drupal.opensourcehost.com

i made changes to the conf.php file (under "includes" folder) by putting my info into the following:

$ db_url = "mysql://oshusername_username:password@localhost/oshusername_drupal"; #

in the notepad file and saved the changes under the file menu command.

i uploaded conf.php and i got the following error message from the database admin:

Error

SQL-query :

Is there a way to configure different markup permissions for different users? For example, I'd like to be fairly restrictive about html tags allowed for content submitted by users, but when I publish new content I'd like the maximum level of flexibility for publishing content, laying out pages, etc. Is there a standard approach that will allow me to do that?

Thanks,

Mac