Installing Drupal

I've search the forums for a solution to the problem I'm seeing but so far I haven't been able to find a solution. I'm getting the old familiar "SQLSTATE[HY000] [2002] Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' (2)." error I've seen other folks experience. I also had this issue before when installing 7.18 for the 1st time and I was able to resolve it by changing the hostname of the Db but this time it's different.

Hi All,

I've uploaded sites - via FTP - before and it's worked well. Normally, I add all the files under HTDOCS (from local to live)

However, I was looking through somebody else's Drupal site on their server and they had a different file structure. Firstly, they didn't have the HTDOCS file but instead put everything under a 'WWW file. They also had these folders which I didn't understand. Not sure of their need.

- usr
- tmp
- log

Hi All

As you can see I am trying to install Drupal 7.22 on OpenSuse 12.3

I have been following these instructions
For LAMP

According to the guide I installed it succesfully
Then for Drupal 7.22 I used the same blog

I made sure that I replaced all the references to 7.0 to 7.22

I reach the following instruction

13. Go to your browser and access Drupal 7 by typing localhost/drupal/ . This screen should appear. For this guide, I'm selecting the Standard installation choice. Click on save and continue (until you reach the set up database portion).

But then when I enter localhost/drupal I get the following message

Access forbidden!

You don't have permission to access the requested directory. There is either no index document or the directory is read-protected.

If you think this is a server error, please contact the webmaster.
Error 403
localhost
Thu May 2 06:38:55 2013
Apache/2.2.22 (Linux/SUSE)

I have unzipped Nodestream and have walked through the set up configuration. But at the end it gives these kind of errors
Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 83886080 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 76 bytes) in /customers/d/0/a/infofreedom.net/httpd.www/includes/registry.inc on line 37

I have a potential client who wants me to create a drupal site for him. He already has owns a domain which is being used. Can I make use of that too, or will drupal somehow interfere with his site? If there are issues with doing this, how could I make it not interfere?

I set up OpenPublish 7 with no problem from the distribution. However, I found the OpenPublish 7 did not include some features that I needed that were in OP6. Is there a distribution for OP6 ? I couldn't find one. I set up Drupal 6. Then I tried to set up OP6 as a module. I got multiple errors for call to undefined function add_role. I don't see suggestions on how to fix this. What should I do ?