Installing Drupal

I am running a personal website off of 1and1.com (free hosting with PHP and MySQL for 3 years by the way, offer ends Jan 21, hurry!). Anyway, I can't figure out how to clear all the errors on the install.

Is there a way that book/blog submissions could automatically have line breaks and paragraphs inserted? nl2br()?

What is in the .htaccess file anyway? And were do I find php.ini?
My Server has .htaccess enabled. But the Basic installation didn't create a .htaccess file in the drupal root directory.
(Now I get this: Note that the value of PHP's configuration option magic_quotes_gpc is incorrect. It should be set to '0' for Drupal to work properly. Either configure your webserver to support .htaccess files so Drupal's .htaccess file can set it to the proper value, or edit your php.ini file directly. This message will automatically dissapear when the problem has been fixed.)

enough has been said about the usability disadvanages of the integrated menus in 4.2.x. the way i navigate around is by going towards the generic help and search for the element i want to configure. works most of the time

however for configuring the "who's online" block, this way doest work.

the help text says

Who's online block

This module creates a block that can display how many user's and guests are currently online. You are able to configure the name of the block, the name of a sub-block for displaying names of user's currently online, how recently a user must have been active to be considered online, the maximum characters to display from a user's name and the maximum number of user names to display.

can someone post a clean url example or lead me through the menu by breadcrumbs so i can (re)configure this item?

tia.

Drupal adds a slash before quotes and other special characters. Magic quotes are off.

I use drupal 4.3.1 and PHP version 4.2.2

Magic quotes are turned of in conf.php with these lines

ini_set("magic_quotes_gpc", "0");
ini_set("magic_quotes_runtime", "0");

Any suggestions on how I may solve this?

//qiziz

hi,

i'm look for a way to insert html-source code into a new story. couldn't find this in any docs.
this means, the tags should be displayed, eg. the bold tag and not the bold text included in it.

thanks for the help.

cheers....