Installing Drupal

First I have to say I don't have a lot of a Linux / PHP skills. Just enough to get things done with some help. I manage a lot of .NET-based websites on Windows servers. I am fairly resourceful but sometimes don't have a good understanding of the fundamentals to solve a problem. I think that is the case with my current issue.

I have a client that had another consultant create a Drupal site that he had on a shared Linux / Apache hosting account. I manage a large .NET web application for this company on a dedicated Windows server. The server is setup as a hosting server with all the right tools on it for both .NET and PHP as well as MSSQL and MySQL. They were having some issues with the other consultant and so they wanted me to migrate it over to the Windows server. Because of relational issues I don't have access to the other consultant. At present I don't even have the Drupal admin login info. I am just trying to get the site visible and running. I am not even sure of the version. I looked in the Upgrade.txt file and it talks about Drupal 7 so that is why I think this is a Drupal 7 site.

Here is what I did.

1. Migrated the code files into the hosting folder for this site.
2. Created a new db and used HeidiSQL to load in the existing db.
3. Resolved an issue with not having PDO for MySQL enabled.
4. Resolved an issue with too small memory_limit setting.

When i install a new drupal 6 (latest version drupal 6.25) for me, when I set my administrator username and passwords, IF I USE A PASSWORDS WITH Specific Symbol, eg: *, $ or % some else like these Specific Symbol, when the installation scripts done, the drupal system will give you a wrong warning info some like: page no found and you do not logged in.
When you try use your user and passwords to login, drupal system will tell you:**** (*is you user name or email of administrator)is not recognized as a user name or an e-mail address.

Hello

after i installed Relationships modul today i get this error you can see at Mevedia.de

I disabled it and deinstalled it. But it has appeared in the modules list again.. so i deleted the folder via FTP.. now its not listed anymore, but the error still comes! Please help!

Sorry my bad english.

Hi,
I just installed my Drupal 7.12 on Debian Lenny.
Everything works fine except for the following errors:

Warning: in drupal_clean_css_identifier() (line 3708 of /var/www/main/includes/common.inc).
Warning: in drupal_clean_css_identifier() (line 3708 of /var/www/main/includes/common.inc).
Warning: in drupal_clean_css_identifier() (line 3708 of /var/www/main/includes/common.inc).
Warning: in drupal_clean_css_identifier() (line 3708 of /var/www/main/includes/common.inc).
Warning: in drupal_clean_css_identifier() (line 3708 of /var/www/main/includes/common.inc).
Warning: in drupal_clean_css_identifier() (line 3708 of /var/www/main/includes/common.inc).
Warning: in drupal_clean_css_identifier() (line 3708 of /var/www/main/includes/common.inc).
Warning: in drupal_clean_css_identifier() (line 3708 of /var/www/main/includes/common.inc).
Warning: in drupal_clean_css_identifier() (line 3708 of /var/www/main/includes/common.inc).
Warning: in drupal_clean_css_identifier() (line 3708 of /var/www/main/includes/common.inc).
Warning: in drupal_clean_css_identifier() (line 3708 of /var/www/main/includes/common.inc).
Warning: in drupal_clean_css_identifier() (line 3708 of /var/www/main/includes/common.inc).
Warning: in DatabaseCondition->__clone() (line 1901 of /var/www/main/includes/database/query.inc).

Help

i've just finished lynda.com Drupal Commerce, the teacher recommends to install kickstart for the lesson, did and i completed the lesson just fine. now i'm ready to do a live site on a host. i don't know if i should install Drupal Commerce or Commerce Kickstart. the kickstart has files in profiles/commerce_kickstart/modules. the documentation just says some developers like them in sites/all/modules... but nowhere can i find an explanation, why are the kickstart files in profiles in the first place? what changes if you move them?