Installing Drupal

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:

I'm new to drupal, and trying to install the Style Module on 4.3rc.

When I replace admin.module with the version included in the tar, I get

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: menu_path() in admin.module on line 82

I've searched the forums but can't find any info on this error. Any help appreciated. Thanks!

Dear developers and support team,

If have isntalled drupal 4.3.0 and after a not so smooth installation drupal is missing the .htaccess file.
I realy need this file to get drupal to work on my server.

with kind regards
Remmelt Koenes

I turned on "Clean URLs" in my System Config and all nodes and admin pages turn up '404- not found'!
Of course I can't turn it back off without getting into the admin, but I can't get into the admin without turning it off.
How can I fix this??
I think this might require me to change the mod_rewrite section of the Drupal .htaccess file.
Thanks,
=timmy=