Installing Drupal

My readers need to have an easy browse feature on the home page, along with other text. I know taxonomy_html has an overview page, but it isn't working with the new cvs, so I created a sort of block that can be dropped in to the middle of a static php page and function as a browser on the home page. The site is now access restricted, but a screenshot is here:

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/var/www/drupal/includes/database.pear.inc on line 89
I've getting this when i try to open my fresh Drupal :|
I want to work with Drupal+postgresql, but it fails. I tried drupal 4.2 and cvs.
Drupal+mysql works fine... Any ideas? Help!!

Hi all,
I have a problem: i cant create the database! i'm working here on winxp home, but i have apache, mysql and php installed (and this works fine).

but then i do the command (like in the installation guide):
GRANT ALL ON drupal.* TO username@localhost IDENTIFIED BY 'password';

i get the error: Error 1044: Access denied for user: '@localhost to database 'drupal'

I also tried to change the synatax to
GRANT ALL ON drupal.* TO mypersonalpsw@localhost IDENTIFIED BY 'mypsw';
but i got the same error.

What i'm doing wrong?

I've installed Drupal 4.3rc on my RH9 box and I'm getting the well-known "... magic_quotes_gpc is incorrect ..." message. I can change the value in php.ini, restart Apache and this solves the problem. I would prefer to use the supplied .htaccess file however, as changes to the default PHP settings may not be suitable for other applications.

I can't seem to invoke the .htaccess file though. I've added a relevant entry in htppd.conf with 'AllowOverride All', but this makes no difference. The .htaccess permissions look OK, and the Apache logs don't give me any clues.

As of yesterday, I'm a Drupal user too - and a very excited one! I'm currently exploring PHP opensource CMS systems for a yet-to-develop website. After crying my eyes out over at all the Nukes, etc, Drupal is an absolute relief because of it's simplicity yet strength.

Since I will be using Drupal as a pure CMS system rather than a community website, weblog or whatever, I only need one account to be created into Drupal (at least - for now). In this perspective - could someone explain me how to disable the feature of creating a new account for visitors of my website?

I almost have my Drupal upgraded 4.3RC under Windows (2000). But I am now getting a message that magic_quotes_gpc needs to be set to 0. I cannot remember what I did for 4.2, Dries or someone helped me but I cannot find the notes (I am really thinking of moving this back to Linux or FreeBSD out of frustration).

Support and the Webhosting site tells me: