Installing Drupal

Hi Guys, I am new to Drupal. I just installed it today and I am thinking of creating a basic site using it. i found the lightbox dashboard a bit annoying. Its actually ok for me but I want to create a site where other users can register. It can be very nagging to users in general. Is there a way to disable it?

I've read through all the possible solutions I can find on Google and this forum and I'm sure I'm missing the solution I need somehow.

I'm trying to install Drupal 6 on a Windows 2003 IIS 6 server. I was able to get PHP working, mySQL installed, and my website setup to the point where it started going through the install steps. Currently I'm stuck on Step 3 "Set up database".

Background:

The database I'm trying to use was imported through a drupal website db dump. It is accessible through the mySQL command prompt and through PHPmyAdmin. I can view tables, run sql commands, etc. Basically it's functioning from the import as it should.

The Problem:

On the 3rd step I enter in the correct database name, username, and password. I leave the default advanced options alone and I choose save and continue. It thinks for a minute then refreshes the database configuration page as if I entered nothing. After trying everything I could find online as a possible solution, I did end up with several didn't helpful warning messages, but still have not be able to get past this step.

I have tried the following:

1. Made sure that the database, username, and password are all correct
2. Made sure that the database user I'm trying to use has full GRANT Privileges to the database

Hi, there,

I am trying to install D7 on my VPS and I got the typical "settings.php file is missing" because, doh, I forgot to copy the default.settings.php and upload it.

So I did that, changed the permissions to 777 in FIlezilla (FTP) and it's still saying it's missing.

I'm sure this is obvious, but I'm just missing it.

Thanks so much for any help, everyone, and have a good day,

- (A/L)

When installing Acquia Drupal I get the message:

Problem running post-install step. Installation may not complete correctly.
Error encountered. For assistance, please finish the installation and post a new forum message to http://acquia-network-subscriber-forums/acquia-drupal-stack-installers with these files:
/Applications/acquia-drupal/installer.log
/Applications/acquia-drupal/piscript.log
==stdout==

please help me..frustrated that i don't know what i am missing , but my CKEditor won't load under Administer/module/. Also, I try to install FCKeditor, it appears under Administer/module, however, I kept getting this message :

I originally installed drupal 6.14 & it was easy to make it spanish language folowing the instructions here.
http://drupal.org/node/21145

This worked perfectly, but now links to the old-style tarballs DO NOT EXIST but there are no new instructions.