Installing Drupal

I am in the process of migrating a Drupal 6.19 site from the localhost to the server. I followed all of the procedures, created a DB, imported the DB from the localhost, placed all the Drupal files on the server and the site launched correctly. However, the when I went to the admin/settings/file-system page I received this error message: "The directory sites/default/files does not exist". I understand that Drupal will build this file dynamically if I change the permissions. So after reading some Drupal posts I changed the sites/default folder from 755 to 777. Then I received this message (after the sites/default/files folder was created), "The directory sites/default/files is not writable". I then changed the sites/default/files folder to 777 but Drupal didn't add the css files/files in this folder as it typically does. The only thing it added was a .htaccess file which is now causing issues with the site.

Can someone help me with the correct process with permissions when migrating a site to the server? I am confused because many of the instructions about installation refer to migrating a brand new site and I am migrating a built site w/database.

Is this the correct procedure (after you have moved the files to the server and imported the db)
1) chmod 666 to both the sites/default/settings.php and the default.settings.php

What SMTP server is the Contact Form trying to use?

I'm using Ubercart and I need to enable PayPal as method of payment.
When I try to enable this module, I get an error:

PayPal WPP requires the PHP cURL library. (Currently using cURL Not found)

When I was using Drupal 6, I installed the module "curl" and the problem was gone. But now with Drupal 7, I can't find "curl" for this version. Is there any way around to sort this out?

Hi all,

Completely new drupal user, just installed it today, so excuse my stupidness while asking these questions!

I picked drupal for my website because I want to use the forum feature for the forum page on my site. I have extracted all the files to the public html file in c panel. Now comes my problem. I just want to have drupal for my forum page, because I have all my other pages the way I like them. So how do I go about installing drupal just for my forum page only, or any other relevant advice really.

Thanks for any help.
luke

I cant install Drupal or rather dont understand how to..

hi

i'm working on drupal community site and i want to ask about this things :

1 - how to hide the drupal information from my site ?

2 - how to make the drupal site more secure ?

3 - how to make my site work as fast as possible when there is a lot of visitors and users on the site

and there is a lot of interaction with the database at the same time?

4 - how to configure drupal to work with high server load and how to configure my server's hardware to work with high load ?

thank you