Installing Drupal

I´m sorry, I´ve search the forums and the mailing lists for too long now, I need to ask. I hope someone can give me a piece of advice on the following:



I´ve managed to installed drupal on my server and I´ve logged in with my new password. I´ve got to the DRUPAL CONFIGURATION in the Administrator's guide, which says:

DRUPAL ADMINISTRATION
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Upon a new installation, your Drupal website defaults to a very basic configuration with only a few active modules, one theme, and no user access rights.

So far so good. This is exactly what I get in my site:

User account


view user information | edit user information | delete account

userxxx

Name:

userxxx (xxx@xxx.xxx)

E-mail address:

xxx@xxx.xxx

Please note that only you can see your own e-mail address - it is not publicly visible.

The DRUPAL ADMINISTRATION section keeps on:

Use your administration panel to enable and configure services. For example, set some general settings for your site with "Administration - site configuration".  Enable modules via "Administration - site configuration - modules". User permissions can be set with "Administration - user management - user permissions".

And here's where I get stuck, since I don't know what the guide's referring to by "administration panel". In my site there's not such administration panel or configuration options...

Hello! I would be great if somebody could help me with his.

I´ve managed to install drupal in my server and I´ve received the mail with my password but when I login, I get the following message.

warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/sites/dvtg/www/public_html/xinelo/includes/menu.inc on line 183.

I´d like to check whether I should do something about it. I know it´s not a error but just a warning, but all the same that might mean something is wrong. Is this normal?

I have a taxonomy with a single vocabulary that contains several deep hierarchies. Thinking about it a bit more, I'd rather have several separate vocabularies that are a little less deep. I don't see anything in the UI that lets me do that. Is there a trick I'm missing?

Here am I again...

In my drupal site I did not use clean URLs because its a virtual server and I was not sure about its apache support for they. Now, I find that this url (by example) doesn't work more:

http://www.librexpresion.org/node.php?id=1008&cid=4347#4347

In my production site with 4.1 works fine, but in my development site with 4.3 it simply carries me to the front page. I'm a bit worried with this mainly because I've put a lot of links to my own site from another ones along last months and this means that they will not work more. Now, show me the "magic.php" script that repairs this and I've not been able to find. ;-)

In the section Installing Drupal on Windows of the documentation, there's the following instruction:

Type the following dos-command: mysql -u username -ppassword drupal < c:...drupal\database\database.mysql (replace the appropriate parts, username, password, c:..., with the correct values. c:... must be the location of your Drupal folder).

Basically I find two problems with this. 1) Since I´m a newbie it´s not easy to spot possible mistakes in the instructions and, as a rule, I put into practice what I´m told LITERALLY. However I don´t manage to get this command work. I get the message "The system cannot find the specified file". I´ve tried different locations for the Drupal folder (as I haven´t clearly understand either "After downloading the Drupal package, start by extracting the archive to the PHP working folder (The folder that you specified for your documents in the php.ini file)") and I´m showing them in CAPITALS in the path. Well, so i´ve tried:

mysql -u username - password drupal < c:archivos de sistema\easyphp1-7\APACHE\drupal-4.3.0\database\database.mysql

mysql -u username - password drupal < c:archivos de sistema\easyphp1-7\WWW\drupal-4.3.0\database\database.mysql

mysql -u username - password drupal < c:archivos de sistema\easyphp1-7\PHP\drupal-4.3.0\database\database.mysql

mysql -u username - password drupal < c:archivos de sistema\easyphp1-7\drupal-4.3.0\database\database.mysql

Hi, a few posts below is another item posted by me, about the remember_me function.
I solved it, and maybe there are others with the same problem.

Because my website is hosted on a shared IIS server and have no control over the php.ini and the htaccess doesn't work on IIS. I have created this workaround.

[Note: edited for conf.php instead of common.inc]

Add the following to the top of includes/conf.php file

 ini_set("session.auto_start", "0");
 ini_set("session.cache_expire", "200000");
 ini_set("session.cache_limiter", "none");
 ini_set("session.cookie_lifetime", "2000000");
 ini_set("session.gc_maxlifetime", "200000");
 ini_set("session.save_handler", "user");
 ini_set("arg_separator.output", "&");
 ini_set("allow_call_time_pass_reference", "On");
 ini_set("magic_quotes_gpc", "0");
 ini_set("magic_quotes_runtime", "0");
 ini_set("magic_quotes_sybase", "0");
 ini_set("register_globals", "0"); 
 ini_set("short_open_tag", "1");
 ini_set("track_vars", "1");

Best regards Gert Jan :),