Installing Drupal

I signed up for a Drupal account yesterday and recieved this email:

Thank you for registering [site]. Your application for an
account is currently pending approval. Once it has been approved, you will
receive another e-mail containing information about how to log in, set your
password, and other details.

So, it has now been over 24 hours without a follow up email. Does approval normally take this long? Is there something else I need to do?

I've done my googling, youtubing, forum searching, and I'm completely flustered and lost.

First off, I am very far behind with web site creation of today. So, please assume I know almost nothing.
Granted out of the three main content managers I chose the most complicated.

So, I've created my site local host through xxamp and I'm in the process of trying to migrate my site to web host.
I'm pretty sure I have to upload my /htdocs folder, export/import my database, and change my setting.php file.
I'm just having trouble with all the micro steps in between.

Hi there,

I have registered my new domain mattcreations.com and created my web page with Drupal CMS system.
Even though the system is installed successfully, there are lots of bugs and errors internally, which I don't know how to fix.
So I would say the system is not installed correctly and perfectly.

New to Drupal and I thought I'd leap right in and fire up a distribution, OpenFolio

First time round I got some nasty errors - no one had any input on the OpenFolio forum, and Google revealed nothing I could understand :-(

I've started the whole thing from scratch, with a new MySQL database using PHPMyAdmin (Site is hosted on 1and1)... and I get the same three errors, suggesting I hack the code of this module... Is this normal? Feels liek really deep water for my first go at this CMS!

I have no pending updates and yet here is the error:

•	Warning: array_filter() [function.array-filter]: The first argument should be an array in ccl_local_actions_menu_local_tasks_alter() (line 120 of .../profiles/openfolio/modules/contrib/ccl/ccl_local_actions/ccl_local_actions.module).
•	Warning: array_filter() [function.array-filter]: The first argument should be an array in ccl_local_actions_menu_local_tasks_alter() (line 126 of .../profiles/openfolio/modules/contrib/ccl/ccl_local_actions/ccl_local_actions.module).
•	Notice: Undefined index: attributes in ccl_local_actions_menu_local_tasks_alter() (line 179 of .../profiles/openfolio/modules/contrib/ccl/ccl_local_actions/ccl_local_actions.module).

[I've taken out the front of the directory path for 'profiles']

Welcome. I wanted to install a new installation of recruiter-7.x-1.x-dev. Choose language Angielski, provides data base, choose the type of your install install recruiter and after a while I receive:

An AJAX HTTP error occurred. HTTP Result Code: 404 Debugging information follows. Path: http:///install.php?profile=recruiter locale = en id = 1 op = to StatusText: Not Found responseText: Page not found | Drupal
import url ('http:// / modules / system / system.base.css? 0 ');
import url (' http:///modules/system/system.menus.css?0 ');
import url ('http:///modules/system/system.messages.css?0');
import url ('http:///modules/system/system.theme.css ? 0 ');
import url (' http:///modules/comment/comment.css?0 ');
import url (' http:///profiles/recruiter / modules / date / date_api / date.css? 0 ');
import url (' http:///modules/field/theme/field.css?0 ');
import url (' http :/ / e-.eu/modules/node/node.css? 0 ');
import url (' http://e-.eu/modules/user/user.css?0 ');
import url ('http://e-.eu/profiles/recruiter/modules/views/css/views.css?0');
import
Import url ('http://e-.eu/profiles/recruiter/modules/ctools/css/ctools.css?0');
import url ('http://e-.eu/themes/ Bartik / css / layout.css? 0 ');
import url (' http://e-.eu/themes/bartik/css/style.css?0 ');
import url (' http:// e-.eu/themes/bartik/css/colors.css? 0 ');

I developed and design my drupal site on my localhost on laptop, all fine, quick n easy.

I just got server space to move it to. I had browsed the web up and down to get the right steps to transfer it, yet I keep running into problems.

The steps to move I found and did indeed follow

1) copy all files from my drupal site folder to the live server (used SSH FTP and inluded the hidden .htaccess file
2) switched off clean URLS in the drupal configuration (no idea why that makes a difference, but hey.
3) cleared the cache via admin configuration in performance
4) exported all tables in a neat .sql file
5) FTP-ed the .sql file to the server
6) checked in .htaccess that RewriteBase was dissabled
7) changed the settings.php to my server login, etc.
7a) I did not amend the baseURL as my drupal site is on the root folder of the server, I tried with and without, seems to make no difference for the end result
8) command lined into my server
9) created an empty database
10) filled the database with my .sql file
11) gave GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON drupal_book.* TO myadmin@'%' IDENTIFIED BY 'thepassword';

> Ran the site and the following happened:
The site draws the top but then only displays the data object, not the rendered site