Installing Drupal

Hi all,

I am new to drupal,actually I have a shared hosting but find it rather slow... read about cloud computer and decided to give it a try unfortunately it seems complicated.

My operating system is Ubuntu and I am familiar - noob with the terminal and SSH though I am not a programmer.

(can I add another topic too)

actually I am thinking of joining treehouse,codeschool or learnable to learn web development.

no IT background at all,will appreciate if someone can point me to any cheap/free resources to learn PHP,js,html,css effectively

My apologies for newbie questions but I am unable to start the installation process of Drupal. I have managed to create the database and upload the package onto the web but am given the following error:

Not Found

The requested URL /cgi-bin/dispatch.cgi/index.php was not found on this server.

Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

Any guidance is much appreciated.

So, I'm a huge newbie to this stuff. Have been a BI developer for a while and getting into some web design and development. I am hitting my head against a wall in disbelief why I can't get Drupal to install. HELP!!

So, I have a PC that I wiped out and loaded Ubuntu 12.0.4 LTS on and I installed the latest version of PostgreSQL as a database back end. So, I decide to install Drupal 7.22 and am reading through the requirements and go ahead and install PHP 5.3.24 and Apache.

I got this error message when use migrate module
"DatabaseConnectionNotDefinedException: The specified database connection is not defined: legacy in Database::openConnection() ( (line 1675 of /public_html/includes/database/database.inc)."
What should I do?

I have a Drupal installation set up on a server. I want to set up a clone of it under a sub domain and use a different database for it.
When I upload a copy of an original site to the subdomain's directory it won't launch Drupal installation but automatically set up the site and link it to the database already used by the original site.
How can I configure Drupal to use a different database (already created on a server) for the second installation?

Does Drupal run on Oracle enterprise Linux?

Thanks so much!