Installing Drupal

Hello. I'm trying to install a second site (locally) to work on. I'm getting 404 not found.
I'm running the latest ubuntu with a lampp stack.

Here's what i did:

I keep trying to send verification emails but they always give an error.
email could not be sent if problem persists contact admin.
what is going wrong.

i"m working on the drp plan and i didn't find information about the best practice for it.
i will define what i want and if anyone can help i think alot of people will benefit from it.

hey all,

I find myself struggling with the database configuration for a site who's files sit on a Windows server and who's database needs to be hosted from a Linux server.

I've allowed access to the database/Linux server for the ip and url of the file/Windows server and tried pretty much any combination I could think off to get Drupal installed... only to encounter one of the following errors;

Hi - I'm completely new to drupal. I installed Drupal7 onto a windows 7 machine already set up as a web server and it semmed to go without any problems other than having to enable GD. However, when I go to either admin->configuration or admin->reports->status, eventually the screen goes to WSOD. I have not added content or done anything with drupal yet, other than install it.
I'm running PHP 5.2.17 MySQL 5.5 and Apache 2.2.19 and the setup runs my own PHP database driven websites ok.
The PHP memory limit is 128M, so that shouldn't be the problem.
After I found the problem I found 2 pieces of advice about displaying php errors so added the following snippets of code, first to settings.php then to index.php after the first one displayed nothing:
To settings.php I added

error_reporting(-1);
$conf['error_level']=2;
ini_set('display_errors',TRUE);
ini_set('display_startup_errors',TRUE);

and to index.php I added

error_reporting(E_ALL);
ini_set('display_errors', TRUE);
ini_set('display_startup_errors', TRUE);

So, I still get the WSOD with no php errors displayed.
Administration->Reports->Recent log messages is not showing any problems.
The Apache error log is not showing any problems either.

Hello,
Downloading, unzipping and uploading back via ftp thousands of files is a pain, let's introduce you the Auto Installer!

Just upload and execute this php file : installer.php

installer.php is nothing but pclzip.php library code plus below code added to the end: