Installing Drupal

I am trying to install Drupal 8.1 dev downloaded from download page. When I enter the database configuration page, I find there is no other database selection except SQLite. Does this installation script not provide the other database selection? Or, I made some mistake somewhere?

Thanks in advance.

Hi,

I've been trying to get Drupal 8 to run locally on my Windows 7 machine, but during the 3d step of the install process, I am blocked by an error message:

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Requirements problem

STATUS COMPONENT DETAILS
OK Web server Apache/2.4.9 (Win32) OpenSSL/1.0.1g PHP/5.5.11
OK PHP 5.5.11
Error PHP extensions Disabled
Drupal requires you to enable the PHP extensions in the following list (see the system requirements page for more information):

I have installed Drupal 7 often. On a new installation (server has many other D7 installations), I uploaded and unzipped the files, created the database and created the settings.php with the right permissions. The result is a blank screen.

Globals is off, and I switched on errors but there is nothing on the page.

The HTML of the page is strange, but having never looked at a site at this point perhaps Google Ads are built into the D7 installation files?:

I can not for the life of me install a new theme to my website after installing Drupal 7.3

I have looked around for tutorials and they all say you have to add the new theme under appearance. I don't have that choice under appearance.

Hi all,

I am new to website development and I thought I would try the combination of Nginx + PHP-FPM + Drupal on Ubuntu Server 14.04. I am using the desktop version of Ubuntu and installed VirtualBox as a test environment. I am using perusio's configuration at https://github.com/perusio/drupal-with-nginx. Here are the exact steps I followed, which I documented as I was attempting the setup:

Hi,

I would like to prevent access the file links to normal users. The files are located in 'myFiles' within public file directory.

Please help.

Thanks
Jo