Installing Drupal

hello folks - good day dear drupalers,

I think that i am a early adopter - i do not want to wait for the next year - i want to have all the great things now!

i want to make running version 8

i took it from here http://drupal.org/node/572834

Last packaged version: 8.x-dev
Last updated: May 6, 2012 - 00:17
View usage statistics for this release
Development snapshot from branch: 8.x

untarred it ( that is unizipped it) then it looked like the following

martin@linux-wyee:~/server/drupal/dev_8x_dev/dev_version_2012_05_7/version_8_x/drupal-8.x-dev> ls-l
insgesamt 52
drwxr-xr-x 10 martin users  4096  5. Mai 19:01 core
-rw-r--r--  1 martin users   999  5. Mai 19:01 example.gitignore
-rw-r--r--  1 martin users   564  5. Mai 19:01 index.php
-rw-rw-r--  1 martin users 18092 17. Sep 2011  LICENSE.txt
drwxr-xr-x  5 martin users  4096  5. Mai 19:01 profiles
-rw-r--r--  1 martin users  3464  5. Mai 19:01 README.txt
-rw-r--r--  1 martin users  1292  5. Mai 19:01 robots.txt
drwxr-xr-x  4 martin users  4096  5. Mai 19:01 sites
-rw-r--r--  1 martin users  3926  5. Mai 19:01 web.config
martin@linux-wyee:~/server/drupal/dev_8x_dev/dev_version_2012_05_7/version_8_x/drupal-8.x-dev> 

what make me wondering was that i have gotten a core with all imprtant things in it - but without the folder
sites

Attempting to install Openenterprise. Successfully reached stage where apps have to be installed.
Selected box to enable the default content with app to be installed.
Following fatal error message received:

An AJAX HTTP error occurred. HTTP Result Code: 200 Debugging information follows.
Fatal error: Class 'context_condition' not found in
C:\-----\openenterprise\modules\defaultcontent\plugins\defaultcontent_condition.inc on line 3

Had a look at the .inc file
Not sure how to go forward.
Can anyone help?

I've been using Drupal for a few months, with a live installation on one Rackspace Cloud server (running CentOS) and a separate Rackspace Cloud development server.

I've set up Apache to direct requests to either the live domain name or the development domain name to the same site folder.

Previously, when I copied a server image from the live server to the development server, it worked fine. (All I had to do after copying the image was password protect the site on the development server.)

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I created a test subdomain and a test drupal folder /public_html/test on bluehost (e.g. test.mydomain.com)

When it is time to put it into production, any suggestion on how to point the main domain (www.mydomain.com and mydomain.com) to this drupal folder? By default the main domain points to the folder /public_html/www and there is no obvious way to change this path, unlike subdomains which point to user-defined paths.

Hi there,

Moving a Drupal site from one host to another for a client. I exported the DB and all the files for the site than imported them and uploaded the db. Changed the settings and it seems to want to work, but I get this error.

user warning: Table 'database.menu' doesn't exist query: SELECT m.mid, m.* FROM menu m ORDER BY m.mid ASC in /mysite/includes/database.mysql.inc on line 174.