Installing Drupal

Hi everyone,

Could someone point me in the right direction here. I am aiming to set up, up to 10 sites which will all use drupal. I am using shared hosting (currently on windows server but will be moving to linux soon).

Would a multi site or multi installation (on each new account) be the best option. I don't fully understand how the multi site works. I will presumably have a cpanel login, which I can then add up to 10 domains. I am confused as to what to do after this. Park the new domains?

I've got drupal 6.19 installeded locally in an xampp SUBDIRECTORY. Everything works great with the exception of the images are broken. They path being created is missing my subdirectory where drupal is installed.

The path should start with :

http://localhost/drupal6.19/sites/default/files/

but is instead
http://localhost/sites/default/files.

I've tried:

Hi All,

I'm knew to Drupal so I would greatly appreciate it if someone could point me in the right direction regarding SMTP details for sendiing emails from my localhost/Drupal account. My overall goal is to set up a Drupal website with e-commerce functionality (Ubercart or maybe Magento back-end). Any advice regarding this would also be very appreciated maybe in terms of avoiding pitfalls.

Thanks in advance

I have a good implementation of my Drupal site cooking at my ISP, I don't want to mess it up. So I decided to install WAMP on my Windows 7 machine and make a few Drupal sites to monkey around with ideas, take drupal7 for a spin, try new modules, and the most important...upgrading drupal practice... or is that recovering the whole site from a total meltdown?

I've installed Drupal a few times on my ISP virtualmachine and all were pretty easy as per the install.txt file. In WAMP 2.1, I've run into a problem. WAMP 2.1 is installed. WAMP seems to be working. So I created a database called drupal6, created a password drupal6, created a user drupal6 and it all lives on localhost.

I copied my drupal6.22 contents into wamp/www/test and copied default.settings.php to settings.php. I opened the settings.php file up and changed the all important line to

$db_url = 'mysql://drupal6:drupal6@http://localhost/drupal6';

Then, using the browser I go to localhost. It works. I go to localhost/test and get this Drupal error message:

Site offline / The mysql error was: php_network_getaddresses: getaddrinfo failed: No such host is known.

Did I forget to turn something on? It could be a mysql, apache, or php user error because I'm a nube with that stuff. My attempts at setting the db and other stuff up may be wrong but it seemed to work like other times I created a db on mysql.

PDOException: SQLSTATE[42000]: Syntax error or access violation: 1064 You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near ') ORDER BY fit DESC LIMIT 0, 1' at line 1: SELECT * FROM {menu_router} WHERE path IN () ORDER BY fit DESC LIMIT 0, 1; Array ( ) in menu_get_item() (line 445 of /home/starpc/web/piratkopi.no/drupal/includes/menu.inc).

What to do to correct this error?
For me, drupal have just given me error after error.
I fix them but this one is a hard nut for me to crack.

Got a message

PHP register globals Enabled ('1')
register_globals is enabled. Drupal requires this configuration directive to be disabled. Your site may not be secure when register_globals is enabled. The PHP manual has instructions for how to change configuration settings.

So what? Have I to buy a server and make changes? I don't want that stupid security, just install and work.