Installing Drupal

Install goes okay until it says, you are the first user etc ... click below to log in. Then the page refreshes when you try to log in. The admin user is created in the database.

register_globals is on - other settings, like magic_quotes are all correct.

I notice that the querystring in the URL bar is empty after the question mark. Any offers for a solution?

Hi, Im Antihero, thinking of running drupal soon. Ive only got one question about the program that I cant find an awnser to on this site, and that is related to its customizablity. as a web designer I have been called "anal" and "perfectionest" a number of times. If I cant control the presentation of everything I wont use the CMS. Ive been looking for a good Portal for three weeks now, and have tried using PHPnuke, PostNuke, TikiWiki, and pMachine, as well as reading the documentation on hudreds of other Portal/CMS programs. so far, pMachine is the only program I have found that provides the developer with easy acsess to the HTML/CSS code of the pages the portal runs. Unfortuantely, pMachine only has a forum. all the Portals ive been looking at are aimed twoard the developer who knows nothing about any web lanugage; I know almost nothing of PHP, but am extremely familar with HTML and CSS, and wish to use those lanugages to present my content in the desired manner.
So my question is, how easy is it to modify presentation in Drupal? PHPnuke supports themes, but they all boil down to changing a few colors or images. Im looking for the 100% flexablity that one can only get by modifying source code (in phpNuke and most other CMS/portal systems modifying the soruce code is near impossible because of the complexity of the PHP, which I do not know), and have not as of yet been able to tell if Drupal offers that. please reply and let me know if this program can help me out!

I set up a news feed from http://www.veganporn.com/syndicate-j.pl The XML looks OK, but I always get no articles. I poked in import.module and found that standalone "textarea" and "image" tags were not dealt with properly. Here's my fix:

+     $data = ereg_replace("<textinput([^s].*)/>", "", $data);
      $data = ereg_replace("<textinput([^s].*)</textinput>", "", $data);

This worked for a machine running PHP 4.0.6, but when I applied the same fix to a machine running PHP 4.1.2, it doesn't work. A little more investigation found that this line:

eregi("<item([^s].*)</item>", $data, $data);

ends up with $data[0] containing "<", which I figured out was the first char in the incoming XML.

With that, my meager PHP skills have been exausted.

I upgraded from 4.0 to 4.1. Now, my one and only forum topic is not reachable through the 'forum' link -- it is only accessible from the 'forum topics' block. When I access it, the title reads "n/a : n/a / Rojo's Software Engineering 333". The 'n/a : n/a' is new, and indicative (I think) of some thing being broken/misconfigured.

If anyone's had this problem before, pleae let me know if there's a way to fix it.

danka

i wanna like drupal, i do, but these kinds of issues are driving me crazy.

i created the first admin account as myself. then i had someone else come and create their own user account. unfortunately, it created it with my same username, and now i can neither block nor delete it.

any idea why this happened, if it's preventable?

i followed the forums howto and the forum i created does get listed, but there is no option to post a topic to a forum.

i've got the permissions set as I think they need to be -- could this be something else?