Installing Drupal

So I was following this great video ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2teIqWfvGQ ), until I became stumped... When i go to drupaltutor.com it takes me to this page drupal tutor, login username and password, instead of showing me how to install by steps???

I recently installed Drupal on my server and have the database all setup and the settings.php pointing correctly, but I receive the following error: PDOException: SQLSTATE[42000] [1049] Unknown database. I know the database is setup and have verified the spelling, but it still cannot find it and I am not sure why it cannot see it.

Any thoughts?

I've been using Dev desktop for 18 months. After installing the latest 7.16.xx version on windows 8, I was unable to delete a website added through the standard import function. I then installed the 7.16.xx version on my existing win xp box and encountered the same problem. When I uninstalled the 7.16.xx version on both win8 and win xp and then installed version 7.14.xx on both boxes, the problem disappeared. Anyone else encountered this problem? I'm just curious as to what might have been introduced in the latest 7.16.xx version of Dev desktop to cause this behavior.

Sorry for the snideness but this has been an issue forever, the documentation is a mess and someone must know the answer...

I need to make extensive updates on my (drupal 6.x) website, say http://mysite.com, so I downloaded it to WAMP/www/mysite folder (win 7, wampserver 2.2).
After importing the db, I changed my settings.php settings:

145  $base_url = 'http://localhost/mysite';  // NO trailing slash!
189  $cookie_domain = 'http://localhost/mysite';

The site works, except my pictures don't appear. Yes, mod_rewrites is active and URL alias work. The issue boils down to this: drupal is looking in /sites/default/files/images/image.jpg
when it should look in /mysite/sites/default/files/images/image.jpg.

How do we solve this? Obviously I'm not changing every image link because I'm going to populate my website again. Yes, I've read the other posts. Yes, I've read:
* The configuration directory will be discovered by stripping the
* website's hostname from left to right and pathname from right to
* left. The first configuration file found will be used and any
* others will be ignored. If no other configuration file is found
* then the default configuration file at 'sites/default' will be used.
*
* For example, for a fictitious site installed at
* http://www.drupal.org/mysite/test/, the 'settings.php'

Hi! I have installed Drupal on my site www.thu.no but I want to uninstall it or delete all the content. How do I do that? If you look into my site you will see people have posted a lot of rubbish in to it, it looks like they have taken control over www.thu.no

I am a beginner and Drupal is far to complicated for me.

Please give me some advice.

Olav

Hello,

I've been receiving this error when trying to access my new dev site, but ONLY on devices running iOS 6.0.1 using Safari:

PDOException: SQLSTATE[HY000] [2002] Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (2) in lock_may_be_available() (line 167 of /var/www/html/dev/mysiteinfohere/includes/lock.inc)

The site loads fine from other devices, and even loads on iOS 6.0.1 using Chrome. Any ideas why the new iOS would be a problem in particular?

Thanks so much,
Max