Installing Drupal

I'm looking to install Drupal 7 for a client. I checked his default database size (host: hosting-advantage.com) and the database size is only 20 MB.

Does anyone know about this company and Drupal as well?

I've upgraded several sites from D6 to D7 without a hitch … then for a reason a can't fathom my latest site is not displaying correctly.

I've got D7.0, using the default Bartik 7.0 theme, and all my pages are visible. However. All the blocks, including main content, are located one after the other on the left hand side.

So the main menu is listed on the left, then the admin menu, and so on to the page and footer content. Nothing is in the middle or right hand side of the screen.

Bizarrely, when I update.php the initial warning page appears correctly on the screen, then when I click on 'Continue' the page telling me there are no pending updates displays correctly, but as soon as I click on the 'Front Page' or 'Administration Pages' link I'm back to pages that don't display correctly.

Also bizarrely, the log is not showing any errors, and neither is the status page. It's 'just' a matter of display not content and it appears to me like a theme issue, but changing themes doesn't fix it.

The fact that the update.php pages appear correctly makes me think it's nothing serious, but I've been trying to sort this out for some time now without getting anywhere.

Anyone else had a similar problem and know how to fix it?

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This is my first installation of D7 and I've received two errors regarding PDO support on my server. I double checked my php and apache config and everything seems to be correct. I am running PHP 5.2.8 with MySQL . The PDO shows as installed using phpinfo: http://canalanuncio.tv/info.php ... yet I even created a php.ini file for my public_html director that manually enabled the path and it still doesn't work. The errors are below. Any help would certainly be appreciated... I'm anxious to try out the new D7! Thanks...

I've just spent an hour and a half wrestling with the following error and a similar one regarding settings.php:
"The directory sites/default/files does not exist. An automated attempt to create this directory failed, possibly due to a permissions problem" despite having all the correct file system permissions set.

As my resolution does not seem to be documented here, I thought I'd share.

I have tried all day, looking through I would like to say, around 50 tutorials on how to install phpMyAdmin, MySQL, and Apache server and downloading them. I haven't been successful at finding a tutorial that can help me. I'm not a programmer, and I am only familiar with CSS and HTML. I'm going to create a video game community, and I was thinking, what better way to do it than with Drupal, after looking through several services. I have no cash, therefor I have no hosting service, besides the free ones that can be found on google.

my company has inherited some drupal sites on drupal version 6. We are trying to setup them on IIS7. We are using Helicon ISAPI_Rewrite 3.1 to rewrite urls. Frontend of the site works well wihout any problems with Re written urls. But when trying to browse /admin. I get 403:Access denied error and I cannot seem to get rid of this no matter what I do. Please advice..?

.htaccess file containes below.

# Helicon ISAPI_Rewrite configuration file
# Version 3.1.0.79

RewriteEngine on

# Modify the RewriteBase if you are using Drupal in a subdirectory or in a
# VirtualDocumentRoot and the rewrite rules are not working properly.
# For example if your site is at http://example.com/drupal uncomment and
# modify the following line:
# RewriteBase /drupal
#
# If your site is running in a VirtualDocumentRoot at http://example.com/,
# uncomment the following line:
RewriteBase /

# Rewrite URLs of the form 'x' to the form 'index.php?q=x'.
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !=/favicon.ico
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?q=$1 [L,QSA]

web.config containes below

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>