Installing Drupal

OK, maybe I just don't understand this correctly, but lets say I am trying to find a post which I replied to on this forum. This post will NOT be listed under my recent posts (http://drupal.org/tracker/3986) probably because what I wrote is considered a "comment". Searching for my own username in the search box at top right finds only "Matching Users: EllenM1" with a link to my recent posts again (which do not contain the one I am looking for.)

Hi,

I have a working installation of Drupal 4.2.0 with several Contributed modules to 4.2.0.
I have done some minor adjustment of some files as well

Howto do an uppgrade with all modules and all data in the database.

I would like a step by step tutorial to do the upgrade in the right way.
If I copy the new Drupal files into my old library I will end upp with a mix of the new drupal and old modules!! I don't think this is a good way to do the upgrade.

I want the book pages to be moderated through moderation queue but I dont want that them reach the front page. Through user's moderation there will be decided when a new page or new page revision should stay in a book or should be dropped instead, but they never should go to the front page.

Can I do this without modifying code? How?

TIA

If you're admin, in my drupal install, you have the following links (under administer):
content / comments / account / configuration / etc. etc.

I would like to add a link to my phpMyAdmin installation in the confguration section, so that when you click on configuration, what opens up is:
themes / blocks / modules / filters / help / AND MY NEW LINK

In other words, I would like to add a link to the administer/configuration section. I would like that to be a link to the index.php my phpMyAdmin installation on the server. How do I do this?

how would i share a common database between these 2?

i dont particularly want to use the druapl forums, i would rather use my already existing phpbb forums

but i want both the drupal database (users) to be able to use their same accounts on phpbb without having to signup for an acct

how would i accomplish this, any help would be appreciated.

Hi everyone. This is my first post. I've lurked for a few days trying to pickup some tips on handling the problem mentioned above, but I'm still stuck. It seems this topic has been beaten to death but if you could indulge me, I'd appreciate it.

I installed Drupal 4.3.0 to a subdirectory off my root, so I could play with Drupal until I'm ready.
I setup the database and loaded the tables in PHPMyAdmin without problems. I named the database dru so the system assigns the name grammaat46_dru . I created a user with all priveleges named gm and was assigned grammaat46_gm.
I edited includes/conf.php from the file manager in cPanel. I edited the two lines requied....
$db_url = "mysql://grammaat46_gm:xxxxxxx@localhost/grammaat46_dru";
and
$base_url = "http://website.org/drupal";
Saved the file and opened a new browser window and went to website.org/drupal .
Netscape gives me a "403 Forbidden" "You don't have permission to access /drupal/index.php on this server."

One tip said that I was to click "create account" anyway because drupal always says this until the first account is setup. But I get no buttons from drupal, only the Netscape and Apache messages.

Another tip suggested checking the host minimum requirements but these all checked out.

Yet another tip suggested using website.org/drupal/index.php or website.org/drupal/?q=user/register etc. but these still give me the same error.