Installing Drupal

Hi,
I am new to Drupal. A frind has asked me convert his site from a non-commercial to a commerce-enabled site. So in order to do this I would like to backup his database of products. He no longer has contact with his former b designer to do this. I have been given the ftp details of his site but wondered whether there as a file I could consult to retrieve the username and password for his database. I would then download those details and attmpt to build a commerce-enabled site on another domain before uploading to the live, working site.

I know this issue SHOULD go on the Acquia Drupal forum, but the first problem is that the forum is not working. I created a new account. I'm logged in. But I get "You are not allowed to post new content in this forum." at the top of any forum page. There are no directions for how to acquire posting privileges, if that's how you do it there. And, reading other issues posted for the same message (on forum installations), I'm lead to assume that Acquia is having troubles with their new forum and they don't know it.

Hi all,

I am still a noobie on Drupal so it might sound like a stupid question. I have installed the BlueMasters demo site on my local environment (MAMP Pro) following these steps (https://github.com/morethanthemes/bluemasters)

I'm trying to setup Drupal 7 on a server that is behind another server. For some background, I have an existing webserver, but its too old and messy to try to do anything with it for the time being, but to support newer sites, I've setup two servers behind it. One for databases, the other for newer sites. I've already have other sites, including php based sites working via Apache and ProxyPass/ProxyPassReverse. I'm trying to setup a test site like so

example.com/testsite1 > internal.com/drupal

Good morning. I've been trying to configure Drupal 7 on a Fedora VM I've created for several days now and can't seem to get past the verify requirements step. No matter what I do, I am continually told that sites/default/files does not exist or cannot be written to and that sites/default/settings.php does not exist or can't be created.

Just downloaded and installed Drupal 7. I set my default site up with a table prefix and set it up so that users, sessions, roles, and such can be shred across my multiple sites as suggested in the Wrox book Beginning Drupal. When I go to install the second site (the first named one) the installer errors saying the session table already exists (this is one of the shared ones). To make this second site, I made a new folder I sites, copied settings.php from the default site, changed the prefix for 'default', and then navigate to /install.php. Any suggestions?