Installing Drupal

Hi, I am very new to drupal and I'm having some issues setting it up.

I started to run the installation script and got the following requirement errors:

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.

Unicode library Error
Multibyte string input conversion in PHP is active and must be disabled. Check the php.ini mbstring.http_input setting.

Hello,
I have been developing a site at 'salsaycontrol.com/cms2/'
I moved it to the main directory 'salsaycontrol.com'

Hi

I've installed Drupal quite a few times on localhost and server, but this time I'm not succeeding.

Environment:
Drupal 7
Site5 host
Fresh install into /public_html/myFolder/

I have an /public_html/.htaccess which reads like this:

I installed "Drupal 7.0" on my website host, "iPage", by using the "SimpleScripts" function provided by "iPage". I used this installation successfully (except for Problem 1 below) to create a test website at the learning stage.

I am now ready to install Drupal for creation of my live website, but two Drupal books that I bought suggest that I should MANUALLY install Drupal for a live website, and I should NOT use something like "SimpleScripts" except only for practice websites. In Ref. 1 (see below), it says on page 24, "The Drupal community doesn't recommend installing Drupal with Fantastico. It can make upgrading difficult and can potentially cause problems with your databases that store all your site data." In Ref. 2, it recommends to use SSTP or SSH manual methods for installation. It doesn't even mention the possibility of using "SimpleScripts or "Fantastico" provided by the web host or ISP.

QUESTION 1: Is it true that I should NOT use "SimpleScripts" to install Drupal 7.0 for my live websites?

When importing blog feeds I find they loose their formatting. Is there a current tutorial on doing this in 6. If 7 will do it better I'd like to know where it is explained thanks.

Hello, i have the following project:

-Project to solve:
Need to create multiple websites (3 in total).
1. Each website will have its own url address.
2. Site 1 will be used only to login an user. Once the user login in the site 1, he will be automatically logged in site 2 and site 3.
3. Site 2 will use ubercart module, in here you can only buy gift certificates.
4. Site 3 will use ubercart module, in here you can only buy products using the gift certificates you used in site 2. Products will be displayed by state (i.e. if the user is from texas, only products prom texas will be displayed).

-Approach:
1. I am planning to use the multisite installation of this guide: http://drupal.org/node/960934
2. I will install the module multisite login for the mutiple logins on all the sites.
3. All the sites will be in fact subdomains of one main domain. I will ask that each url points to the respective folder in the ftp. That way I can use the domain and multisite login modules.
4. Install cck module to add the field "state" to each product.

-Limitations:
1. I only have access to the ftp and the plesk console. No ssh, no apache configurations.

-Questions: