Installing Drupal

Hi.
Can be installed Drupal on mac os. If so, how?
Thanks

When a new Drupal install is made, in user settings 'Visitors can create accounts and no administrator approval is required' is checked. This allows anyone to set up a user account, and do whatever they please until the problem is spotted - especially on a new site that's under development. This is true for Drupal 6, and the problem happened to me on a website I was developing. The default should be 'Only site administrators can create new user accounts' I raised this as a security concern, but this is 'as designed' so is not strictly a security issue.

Hi all

I installed Drupal 7.14 using Fantastico (I had/have the option to use Softaculous).

First I got a 500 Internal Server Error. My host fixed that as follows:

"The error you were receiving is because the 'Options +FollowSymLinks' was enabled. I have commented out this line, and it seems to have corrected the issue.
We disabled the option 'FollowSymLinks' quite some time ago because of a known exploit that uses it. We enabled the option 'SymLinksIfOwnerMatch' by default server wide because of this. 'SymLinksIfOwnerMatch' provides the same functionality as "FollowSymLinks' with additional security measures. If your script requires 'FollowSymLinks', there should be no issues with using the 'SymLinksIfOwnerMatch' alternative. You do not have to specify the option 'SymLinksIfOwnerMatch' in an .htaccess file because it is enabled by default server wide."

After that all did look fine, actually great!! Then I added some content. All seemed ok, except that on "puiblishing" and then leaving the "page" I was told there was an installation error:

"PHP register globals Enabled ('1')
register_globals is enabled. Drupal requires this configuration directive to be disabled. Your site may not be secure when register_globals is enabled. The PHP manual has instructions for how to change configuration settings."

I installed Drupal version 7.14 at drupal.dergroup.net and it ran ok. Then I copied the Commerce modules to the Drupal/sites/all/modules dir and enable the modules in the Commerce package. Now I have received the following error when drupal.dergroup.net is enable in IE9. . I read your two memory fixes but it appears my limit is above 16M, allocated 29M. I directly editing the {system} table in the database and setting the status column to 0 of all commerce areas. Seem to have no effect. I can send you the DB system info if you want.

To install drupal, I am currently using a bash script that runs drush site-install after wget-ting the latest drupal tar. I have an inhouse module which gets enabled via module_enable in the profile that overrides user creation and suffixes the name with an email extension. The problem this is causing is that UID1 is becoming admin@example.com instead of being admin as it should be. Is there a way to enable modules after the placeholder for UID has been replaced with admin, while still keeping everything inside the install profile?

how the hell do I install it? I have unpacked but nothing seems to work... I just wanted to consult a website, and I really need to read their content - which I cannot do without dupral. I really would appreciate some help since I am completely illiterate with this software talk :(

when I open the webpage in question it shows the following message:
Warning: include_once(./sites/default/settings.php) [function.include-once]: failed to open stream: Permission denied in /home/stsc_ls/stsc.berkeley.edu/includes/bootstrap.inc on line 322

Warning: include_once() [function.include]: Failed opening './sites/default/settings.php' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/local/lib/php:/usr/local/php5/lib/pear') in /home/stsc_ls/stsc.berkeley.edu/includes/bootstrap.inc on line 322

then I choose: "install in english" but the following shows up:

Requirements problem
The following errors must be resolved before you can continue the installation process:

The Drupal installer requires write permissions to ./sites/default/settings.php during the installation process. If you are unsure how to grant file permissions, please consult the on-line handbook.