Installing Drupal

Hi I move drupal from stie to my PC. I move database by phpmyadmin and import to my xampp MySql next i copy files to xampp/htdocs/nameofsite and start http://localhost/nameofsite and start drupal install.php is start and i move on to set up database and i chose database wich i downloaded from site and upgrade modules and start. And I have problem. I see front page but all links are dead they move me to http://localhost/xampp so what is wrong?

Hello,
I'm having trouble installing drupal 6.20 and I'm not able to connect to the database.
Failed to connect to your MySQL database server. MySQL reports the following message: Access denied for user 'xxx'@'localhost' (using password: YES).
The database password contains a special character (being + )
Testing the connection gives no errors.
I have found that the error is due to the special character.

How can i solve this problem. changing passwords is not an option.

Thank you in advance!

Sometimes I can't access some of my websites from home, I checked http://port80.icannotconnect.com and confirmed that outbound port 80 is allowed by my ISP, I'm pretty sure that the problem is not network related, but I'm not sure what it is, could this have anything to do with installing Drupal?

Hello,

I've searched the forums and read through many pieces of documentation; but I am still a little confused about installing Drupal 7 to a server already hosting a live site.

We think Drupal 7 will be a good fit for something new. I have read documentation and how-tos for several days. I just need to know of any tips or best practices for installing Drupal on a server with a live site already up.

Is this unadvised? Will it hinder the live site in any way?

Thank you!

Hi,
I have Fedora14 installed in my system and recently installed Drupal 6.20 version.
I created two sub folders "modules" and "themes" in "sites/all" folder and given 777 permission and put contributed modules like "Views", "Panels", "Tokens" in it.
I found missing these modules while tried to enable these modules from module list page (admin/build/modules) and same thing happened for themes folder.

Please help me.

I got, after installation in configuration this message:

* warning: mail() [function.mail]: Failed to connect to mailserver at "localhost" port 25, verify your "SMTP" and "smtp_port" setting in php.ini or use ini_set() in C:\xampp\htdocs\drupal\includes\mail.inc on line 193.
* Unable to send e-mail. Please contact the site administrator if the problem persists.