Installing Drupal

still having problems with 403 permission denied to run install.php for drupal on vps so trying to change ownership
of sites folder for practice on change ownerships but am getting this:

-bash-4.1# cd /var/www/drupal-7.17/
-bash-4.1# sudo chown -R user1:www-data sites
chown: invalid user: `user1:www-data'

when in doubt reinstall ! and just keep doing it until it takes for however long to understand all important aspects of safely and securing vps - this is my newbie advice.

Located my drupal in /var/www and according to this tut https://drupal.org/node/327731

that is where it should be but in other tuts it says it should be in /home/yoursite.com/public_html

I've moved mine now into public_html but since reading above tut I'm unsure.

Folks,

I have several Drupal 7.x sites running on my hosting company (1and1.com). I am trying to create a new site by doing a clean install of Drupal 7.17

New install of Drupal 7:

It wanted me to make the files directory writable, so I chmod 777 -R files. But that worries me as being insecure.

ls -al gives me the following:

-rw-rw-r-- 1 username username 23197 Nov 24 14:16 default.settings.php
drwxrwxrwx 3 username username 4096 Nov 25 17:16 files
-rw-r--r-- 1 username username 23507 Nov 24 15:36 settings.php

...where username is my ssh username.

Is this the above secure? The "w" for files seems bad, but I don't understand enough about Linux groups, etc.

Thanks!

Hi!

Does anyone know a theme similar to business for drupal 7 where you are able to modify the image in the start page carousel and tie it to a page?

Or is there any support for it that i'm missing? I've been trying out many, but never find anywhere to change content easily from the cms..

Thanks!