Installing Drupal

Hello!

I've already searched the forums and google to find the answers I need and I'm almost satisfied. The post's I've found is somewhat old, the oldest was posted in 2006.

This is what I want to do;

Install Drupal7 in the public folder of a site already containing Drupal6.

Develop a new site there, e.g. in 'www/drupal7'.

Uninstall/delete drupal6 and move drupal7 to 'www'.

The reason for doing it like this instead try to do an upgrade is that the company I'm doing this for want's to redesing there site in the process.

My questions are:

Will a new instllation in 'www/drupal7' in any way change anything on the server outside the 'drupal7' folder? (found one post saying that you can have multipel sites on one server, just need to get i verified)

Will any settings depend on drupal7 being installed in the 'drupal7' folder? (found a post saying that I needed to change path in 2 files, I looked in them and the pathes there wasn't used, I tried to move a local installation from 'www/drupal' to 'www' and it seemed to work whitout any changes, the problem with it is that site only contained a 'hello world' frontpage and not a real site)

One post said that I should use a subdomain instead of a subolder for security reasons and to make moving the site easier. Another post suggested changing 'htacces' to restrict access.

Any thoughts on that?

Hi

I've checked the forums and I can't quite find what I'm after.

Hi

I'm desperate for some help, please bear with me I've no experience whatsoever with Apache or PHP, but i learn fast i hope.

I've installed drupal into a subdirectory ofmy existing site. If i have the htaaccess in the root then i get a server error, if i remove it i can access the site. Problem is i can't install clean urls on my fasthost account. I found a workround that allows me to add the htaaccess file and still view my site but when i run clean urls nothing happens, it stays on the same screen. Also when i add modules, i get a white page, its fine when i go back the module is added but i wasn;t sure if this was related. The work round i have found was on this sit, i have pasted it below but I am unsure exactly which bits i have to modify and how. I'm desperate not to give up, this has taken a while to install. Can someone please give me idiot proof instrictions on how to get round this issue, for example do i have to put my site name and the drupal sub directory line everytime it has example.com? Thanks in advance

RewriteEngine on

# If your site can be accessed both with and without the prefix www.
# you can use one of the following settings to force user to use only one option:
#
# If you want the site to be accessed WITH the www. only, adapt and uncomment the following:

Apparently Drupal is incompatible with xDebug. If you have it loaded in Drupal fails to install. Also if you install xDebug after installing Drupal the Appearance, Modules, Reports and Help menu items will start failing.

Hi there,

I have a blank new Drupal 7 installation and am having trouble updating via Modules/Update. It is displaying the following error:

I've got drupal 6 on my mac leopard, but can't get past the Database configuration. The error is that access is denied for this user.
I tried to install drupal once before (years ago), but stopped half way through, so this time I removed all traces of mysql/mamp/drupal and started again.
Mamp is running fine, and I've set up two databases (in the new mysql I just re-installed) through the Terminal, so that's working, and the password I have is working.

Can't figure out why that same user/password won't work?

Thanks