Installing Drupal

Fresh install of 4.3.1 on a linux system to which I have limited access. All seems correct as far as phpinfo() but none of the changes I make e.g. password are written to the db.

Any ideas where I should look???

I just upgraded from 4.2 release to 4.3.1. I ran into the table url_alias not being found issue that a few people have mentioned. The workaround is pretty easy:

Environment: i was upgrading from 4.2 to 4.3.1

Symptom: when you run update.php to upgrade it complains about the table url_alias not being found.

Fix:
Open database/database.mysql (in my case, not sure if this error shows up on non-mysql configs) and copy the command for the url_alias section, or just copy this:

CREATE TABLE url_alias (
  pid int(10) unsigned NOT NULL auto_increment,
  src varchar(128) NOT NULL default '',
  dst varchar(128) NOT NULL default '',
  PRIMARY KEY  (pid),
  UNIQUE KEY dst (dst),
  UNIQUE KEY src (src)
) TYPE=MyISAM;

open your mysql database with something like:

- mysql -u drupaladminname -p drupaldbname
- paste in the command above
- you should get a successful reply, if not, check your syntax
- \q quits the interactive session

now just run update.php again and it should work. i got a couple small errors in the update log, but nothing looked serious and the portal appears to be running fine.

Now I've got to re-port a custom authentication module that i wrote, but otherwise the upgrade went very well.

Good job, all.

Hello I have just installed Drupal , very slick but I have come accross two errors.
The first one is this. FYI it is a hosted install so i dont have access to any conf files. I have emailed the host and they are running Apache 2.0 with .htaccess on.

Hello everyone,

I have a funny problem with Drupal. Everything is working well so far, except for this problem. Very often, I get this error:

error: Lost connection to MySQL server during query
query: SELECT * FROM system where type = 'theme' AND status = '1' ORDER BY name in mysite/includes/database.mysql.inc on line 75.

It's almost always the same error. It happens when I try to change some admin options. Sometimes the error disappears when I hit "refresh", sometimes it doesn't. Another funny error (probably related to the same problem) is that I keep getting disconnected from my website. I have to re-login very often. I don't know what is going on, but these mystery errors are occurring often enough that I'm writing about them to Drupal.

Details:
Login error: I can best pin it down to this phenomenon: If I'm in the administration pages and save a new modification and return to the homepage, I have to re-login very often. The site forgets that I've already logged-in. Equally often, I get the "connection lost, line 75 error for trying the same thing. At this stage, I'm unable to click "back" and try to pursue other links as if I'm already logged in.

More specifically, if I'm in the taxonomy section and try to translate the page I get the same line 75 error. If I try to create a new user, I get the same line 75 error. For taxonomy, there's no chance of the error disappearing even with refresh. I remember getting the same error a few other times as well, but can't pin it down. The funny thing is that the translation has been successful anyways. (I clicked on "translate" anyways and got a whole list of lines that were translated, and the error at the bottom of the page)

I've checked 'Maintain uploaded files' for registered users, but they don't get a link to do so. Am I misunderstanding this permission or do I need to do something else as well? Manually entering ?q=node/edit/$nid works

When I first downloaded drupal 4.3.1 on Dec 4, I noticed there was a bug in the Who's Online block where it would display the logged in users names even if you had that turned off. Hoping to see this fixed (because it is so annoying), I just redownloaded the same version (4.3.1). The bug was not fixed but I noticed that the file size differs from the previous 4.3.1 that I downloaded! Is the same release updated multiple times? If so, how do we know when to re-download it?

Dec 1 file size: 420,086
Dec 18 file size: 420,063