Installing Drupal

Hi all,
I am in the process of converting from MySQL to PostgreSQL. Everything went smoothly except for the Languages module. Imported .po files, which read normally in a text editor, turn up escaped characters in the interface, e.g. "\303\241" shows up instead of "á", making the interface pretty much unreadable.

I'm new to Drupal, trying see how it will work. I've installed on a local host (Ubuntu 10.04 server). And tried several different install instructions. I set up the database using myphpadmin, creating drupaluser and a database by the same name (drupaluser), and then ran the install script. It didn't work using drupaluser as the username, until I changed the user in settings.php to root:

Hi All,

I've made Drupal sites live before (even though I still consider myself a begginer), however I'm struggling with Drupal 7. The issue lies with editing the settings.php file to configure my server from local to live settings. The setup of the document seems different and I'm struggling to understand where and how I can add the information correctly.

Having looked online, I can't find anything which helps me.

Can you somebody please outline how I should be editing the settings.php file?

I presume this is what I need to edit:

Hi all,

I am getting HTTP Error 500 when I try to install Drupal. When I look at the log this is what I see...

[error] [client xxx.xx.xxx.xxx] PHP Warning: getcwd() has been disabled for security reasons in /var/www/vhosts/mysite.com/httpdocs/drupal/index.php on line 17

[error] [client xxx.xx.xxx.xxx] PHP Warning: require_once() [function.require-once]: Unable to access /includes/bootstrap.inc in /var/www/vhosts/mysite.com/httpdocs/drupal/index.php on line 19

I recently moved my site to a new host-- everything seemed to be working fine, but now I have a small number of authenticated users receiving 403 errors when trying to update their profile: "Forbidden You don't have permission to access /user/8409/edit/Profile on this server."

They are not receiving the themed 403 with our header, just a generic error message. The majority of users have experienced no error, but I cannot resolve the problem for those particular users. I fear this has something to do with the htaccess configuration, which was copied from the old host's setup. The drupal htaccess file is completely commented out, instead the rewrites were all in the public_html htaccess file. (drupal is installed in a subdirectory).

The htacces file is as follows:

Options -Indexes
RewriteEngine on
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^my-site.org$ [NC]
RewriteRule .* http://my-site.org/	[L,R=301]
RewriteRule ^$ prod/index.php	[L]
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/prod%{REQUEST_URI} -f
RewriteRule .* prod/$0 [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule .* prod/index.php?q=$0 [QSA]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^my-site.org$
RewriteRule ^prod\/?$ "http\:\/\/my\-site\.org\/" [R=302,L]

I have a question about copying a live website back to my localhost. I've tried many options, and It only results in it displaying the main page with the content that is of the same as live. The problems happen when I try log in to the admin, or click on a content type webpage -> this directs me back to the localhost page.

I've copied all the folders back into a fresh localhost folder, exported the live DB and imported it back with phpmyadmin, but I only ever get the problem listed above. I've changed all the necessary settings in the settings.php page, but no luck