Installing Drupal

Hi all, trying to install drupal for the first time on my local machine.

Is XAMPP the best way to do this? I am using windows 7

I am trying but I get the following message when I run the exe file:

"Important MS Vista Note! Because an activated Windows Vista User account Control (UAC) on your system and some functions of xampp are possibly restricted. With UAC please avoid to install XAMPP to C://Program Files (x 86) (because of not enough write permissions). Or deactivate UAC (with msconfig)after Setup

hey there,

here's a question that has always bothered me: why doesn't Drupal create a database for me when installing?

I know this can be done using a PHP script.

don't get me wrong: I know how to create a database in my webhost. it's just that since Drupal handles its own configuration, I always thought it'd be able to create it on its own.

so why doesn't it?

cheers,
Luciano

Host machine is Opensuse 11.4
Virtualbox: latest
Guest Appliance: LAMP (TurnkeyLinux Debian squeeze) - latest versions
Other appliances are working fine.
Drupal: 7.14 (working fine on default site)
Purpose: local development server

I am quite familiar with multisite installations and have been running some since D5.

My LAMP is accessible on http://192.168.1.133. This brings up the default site which has zero problems. The next site I need to install on the dev server is in the form sub.example.com. I read the apache2 manual, created a NameVirtualHost, etc, in sites-available/default and created the symlink, I checked the includes and set up /sites/sub.example.com, a database, and settings.php to match, permissions are suitably relaxed for now. I tested the apache config and it reports my setup as "syntax OK". I have cleared browser cache and restarted apache repeatedly.

I have no local DNS and this might be the problem (but I am ignorant in this area).

To access the second site I enter http://192.168.1.133/sub.example.com. This fails (displays default site with "/sub.example.com not found") and I can see that Drupal's index.php may have trouble resolving the URL. I tried sites.php (set an array with several combinations). In fact I tried everything in the book with NO LUCK (and pretty soon, no hair).

SOLUTION (hope this helps someone)

Hello every body
I want to build special forum , any registered users can add new topic but this topic is hidden by default until admin see it and then admin if he want to show "publish" it he can else he stay it hidden.
I try it in forum module , any other ways or good solutions .
thanks a lot

Please, i can have help?
During the drupal installation, i have received this error message:

Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 30 seconds exceeded in C:\xampp\htdocs\drupal7\includes\database\database.inc on line 2137

My english is a bit uncorrect, but i' m italian....

Thank you co much!!!

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