Installing Drupal

Having trouble installing Drupal. I copied all of the files onto my server. I then CHMOD'd the "sites/default/" directory to 777. I even copied default.settings.php and renamed it to settings.php in that directory...

When I go to the page...
www.domain.com/sites/default/

I get a 403 error...

Hi all,

I'm new here, and hoping for some guidance. Please and thank you in advance.

I'm helping a client transfer his Drupal site from a different developer/host who had it as part of a multisite setup. The developer/host gave me a .sql.gz of the database and a .tar.gz of the site files.

Does Drupal have a set convention reading the database passwords from a separate file?

I need a way from excluding them from commits.

I installed the packages, copied the right folders, checked every permission, checked the .htaccess files, checked apache's settings, and imported my database into MySQL. I'm by far no stranger to moving Drupal installations, but I've never gotten an error like this.

Hi everyone,

I have been on the forum for hours, searched google and also watched the gotdrupal video entitled "multi site vs multi installation". I thought the latter might solve my problem.

In a nutshell, I host sites already using umbraco (each a separate install). I have switched to drupal now. I will be setting up 5 or so completely unrelated websites from scratch using drupal on a package which allows for 10 domains.

Now, would people suggest going down the multi site route or the multiple installation route? I can see the (potential) security issues with multi site plus the fact if something goes wrong, all sites are affected. I like the fact with a multi install that each site can be handled separately.

I have read about drush, and still have no idea how to use it (actually...or what it does?!), although I read another post that it can make upgrading easy. If this was the case I would 100% go the multiple install route. But would I even get shell access on my hosting plan? It will have cpanel but I can't see it allowing me much more than that without me having to upgrade my account.

Hi there,

I'm trying to install drupal 7.4 but I'm kind of lost. On the server two MySQL versions are running. I got the following information from my hosting provider:

Hostname :localhost:/tmp/mysql5.sock
Socket :/tmp/mysql5.sock

Unfortunately, the install.php script fails when using this hostname in advanced options:

Failed to connect to your database server. The server reports the following message: SQLSTATE[HY000] [2005] Unknown MySQL server host 'localhost:/tmp/mysql5.sock' (1).