Installing Drupal

Hoping I can find some help on the forum.
Although I have done a lot of web design in the past and continue to design sites, I have never worked with Drupal before (apart from logging in a few years back to make changes to a client site online).

Hi,

I have to move a Drupal 5 site to my hard disk in order to grab all of the nodes which I'll then need to import in a Drupal 6 site. However, after following the steps suggested in numerous tutorials, I can only get the homepage to more or less work on localhost and if I click on any of the links on the homepage, it loads up a virtually empty HTML page (except for one string of text at the top)... I have no idea where to look in order to fix this problem and any help would be appreciated as this is a rather urgent matter.

Here is what I've done so far:

Hi all, I thought I would try out Drupal (I'm coming from Joomla) so downloaded v7.2, extracted and FTP'd it to my website. when I run domain/install.php, Drupal shows a blank page. I have looked at the page source and it shows nothing.

I know I'm being thick, I've looked on the internet for help but am a it stumped. My system:

Ubuntu headless 10.04.1
Apache 2.2.14
MySQL 5.1.41
PHP 5.3.2
All files on 755 and ownered correctly

Keep getting this error when I try and install Drupal 7. I wanted to do it with Postgres (v8.4.8), but kept getting this error

PDOException: SQLSTATE[42601]: Syntax error: 7 ERROR: syntax error at or near ")" LINE 1: SELECT * FROM menu_router WHERE path IN () ORDER BY fit DESC... ^: SELECT * FROM {menu_router} WHERE path IN () ORDER BY fit DESC LIMIT 1 OFFSET 0; Array ( ) in menu_get_item() (line 445 of /home/pdragon/www/drupal-7.2/includes/menu.inc).

Tried doing it with MySQL (v5.1.41) instead but still getting a similar error

I am trying to setup a domain and a sub-domain using two separate hosts for a Math tutoring website. I have chosen to use Drupal 6 for this task--for now at least.

The first site, www.example.com , is hosted on an entry-level, shared Godaddy server that barely has enough resources to calculate the area of a triangle so I want to limit its load as much as I can. This site will be devoted to handling all public traffic and user logins that will transfer the user to the second sub-domain site using SSO. (Is key redirect with SSL certificate aka "poor-man's SSO" even worth looking at?)

The second site, www.math.example.com , will be hosted on a dedicated Dell Poweredge 1750 with 8GB RAM running Ubuntu 11 in my basement. This site will contain the UI for any user that logs in through the main site plus all of the math related content.

I want to be able to share user tables but I also want separate databases for content. Since my Godaddy hosting has marginal resources, I would like to host the shared user db and the drupal content db for the public pages there. The server in my basement will use the shared Godaddy db for users but have its own db running locally for content. Is this even possible to have a Drupal site use two databases in different physical locations?

when the drupal's install go to step four,the error show:

An AJAX HTTP error occurred. HTTP Result Code: 500 Debugging information follows. Path: http://mydomain/drupal/install.php?profile=standard&locale=zh-hans&id=2&... StatusText: Internal Server Error ResponseText:

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i can't search the solution, who can help me ?