Hi.
Maybe this helps someone. At liunchtime I tried to install Drupal, but kept getting as far as Access Denied for the first page, and couldn't create the new (first) user. So, determined, I wrote it up, capturing every keystroke.
If no-one wants it (and it's by necessity long!) feel free to delete it.
-Best regards
-Andy
Precise keystrokes to install DRUPAL, and results. Linux Red Hat 9, MySql 3.23.56, PHP 4.2.2. Postfix for mail, but I'm having trouble with it. Still...here goes:
1) Check php.ini for magic_quotes_gpc:
$ cat php.ini | grep magic_quotes
magic_quotes_gpc = 0
(OK).
2) Check php.ini for session.save_handler:
$ cat php.ini | grep session.save_handler
session.save_handler = user
(OK).
3) Check php.ini for sesion.cache_limiter:
$ cat php.ini | grep session.cache_limiter
session.cache_limiter = none
(OK)
So, php.ini is OK.
Now, downoad DRUPAL into the server root directory. In my case, it's /home/thelinuxpc/html (i.e., where the initial "index.html" file lives. As the owner:group for this directory tree is “thelinuxpc:thelinuxpc”, "su -" to that user. (else, I get 'permission denied when logged in as 'andy').
[andy@madetoja html]$ su -l thelinuxpc
Password:
-bash-2.05b$ ll
total 8
drwxr-xr-x 2 thelinuxpc thelinuxpc 4096 Aug 31 11:46 ddclient-3.6.3
drwxr-xr-x 11 thelinuxpc thelinuxpc 4096 Sep 5 12:20 html