Installing Drupal

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

How do I make my forums look like these forums, here? I'm using the Xtemplate theme.

Win2k + mysql + php + apache

I cant' finish installation, i have problems with granting rights to user on db drupal.
Please can anyone give me a hint to resolve this situation?

thank you in advance
Alberto

mysql> grant all on drupal.* to drupal@localhost identified by 'password' ;
ERROR 1044: Access denied for user: '@localhost' to database 'drupal'
mysql>

so i unsucessfully tried many differents

not sure what i did here... but now one of my nodes has become inaccessable...

keep getting an error message in the browser saying 'cannot find data for that location' after a few seconds of trying to load... (it was a long page of text)

that's all well and good, i'd just like to go in and delete that particular item and recreate the page now, except i can't , it just sits there in content management, but clicking delete keeps saying it can't find data!!

any suggestions what i can do to remove the offending item?

I've just installed Drupal 4.1, from the Debian Linux package. Something in the interplay between Drupal, Apache 1.3, and the PHP4 module seems to be buggy: if a user changes a theme, the theme change takes effect immediately on the user settings page, but does not show up on the Home page or other pages. And it doesn't show up if the user logs out & logs back in again.

I'm not an Apache or PHP guru by any means, so I don't know what settings I might need to tinker with to change this behavior. Any suggestions appreciated.

I have drupal installed on my domain, PHP 4.2.3 and for the most part things seem to be running smoothly, but when I try to create a new user the signup page simply reloads, the database doesn't change and no e-mail is sent out. Does anyone have any idea why this might be happening?