Installing Drupal

Hello :

It seems that all of a sudden, drupal is giving notices about serialize() :

Notice: unserialize() [function.unserialize.html]: Error at offset 0 of 4 bytes in path\to\common.inc on line 175

The only thing I did before this notice started showing up was add the filestore.module to the modules directory, and inserted the sql file into the database. I haven't activated the module. The only other thing I can think of is that this error started when I connected my box to the internet (although I can't be positive about that). I am using localhost as my testing server.

System details are :

Drupal : 4.2
PHP    : 4.3.3
Apache : 2.0.47
MySQL  : 4.0.14-nt
OS     : Windows XP Professional

Any ideas on how to fix this? I know I can turn off notice reporting, but I'd rather find out why this is happening.

I know this problem has been around on the forums but none of the suggested solutions has worked for me. I have a drupal installation working perfectly on another remote host, but this time round (same provider but a different server) I just get the first page with an access denied message and none of the links working. Create new account merely returns the same no authorization to access page message. Can anyone help?

I'm currently running a website that revolves around pictures and reports of certain events. I didn't expect the kind of succes it has and it has therefor grown to large to be maintained by hand. However I don't know a thing about php and am kinda stuck there. Then a friend pointed me to Drupal. What I'm looking for is something where I can have users contribute reports that appear on the site after I ok'd them.

I am helping some folks out with their site and am hitting a deep set of errors. I am not the admin setting this up, so am just relaying the problem. While I have done several installs, am not a tech expert on the foundations.

Unfortunately they have a dedicated box, but PHP is run as CGI module. I just started doing some searches here for these errors. Looks like a pear issue. The admin there changed the php.ini file per another topic here on drupal.org.

Thanks in advance for any help you can offer with this issue.

I would like to replace the bullets in the news feed blocks in 4.2(using xtemplate theme) with images. Does anyone know where the insertion of these bullets occurs? import module? any idea on what line?

many thanks for any suggestions

r

I'm not a stupid person (no, really, I'm not). I've installed a few PHP and Perl programs successfully. But I'm missing something when it comes to that line in the conf.php file.

I am running MySQL.

My database's name is: rojonet_drupal
The user name is: rojonet_rojonet

(The server appends my logon to everything I create and it's been my experience thus far that it is required. Perhaps it is not in this instance, since I cannot figure out how to get it to read the database using what I have there now.)

Here's the relevant portion of the conf.php file as it exists now:

BEGIN CODE:
$db_url = "mysql://rojonet:[password]@localhost/rojonet_drupal";
# $db_url = "pgsql://user:password@hostname/database";
# $db_url = "mssql://user:password@hostname/database";

$db_url = "mysql://drupal:rojonet_drupal@localhost/rojonet_drupal";

#
# Base URL:
#
# The URL of your website's main page. It is not allowed to have
# a trailing slash; Drupal will add it for you.
#
$base_url = "http://www.ro-jo.net/drupal";

END CODE

When I attempt to launch my page at

http://www.ro-jo.net/drupal/

or

http://www.ro-jo.net/drupal/index.php

I get this pleasant reply:

BEGIN ERROR MESSAGE

Warning: mysql_connect(): Access denied for user: 'drupal@localhost' (Using password: YES) in /home/rojonet/public_html/drupal/includes/database.mysql.inc on line 12