Installing Drupal

Hi

i've just install and configure Drupal 7 on my server.

When i want to update drupal, there is an error ''Èchec de récupération des informations de mise à jour d'un projet.'' (Failed to get informations of drupal update)

How can i set up update of drupal on my server ?

This line was added the .htaccess file that installs with Drupal 7.
Options -Multiviews

Anyone can help me how to tun off error messages? I cant find the file where i must to edit...

This is for Drupal 7. I want users to be able to see their past posts on the forums. This site has a Your Post. I created a shortcut, what is the extension for it? /example/example?

I have a virtual host w/o a domain name. I'm testing a migration to the new host.

So the address I have to work with is http://ipaddress/~name

I can FTP and use the cpanel to access this site. I uploaded the drupal6.2tar file and upzipped.

When I went through the process after putting in the database information, I get a lot of errors similar to this:

/public_html/drupal/includes/install.inc on line 618
/public_html/drupal/includes/install.inc on line 619

A bit of background - I have a fedora box running a LAMP stack. My document root is owned by the user apache (which is the name of the user running the httpd service). My settings.php has been chmodded to 777, but Drupal can't seem to write to it. Nor can it create the files directory (or write to it - after manually creating it)

How would I go about solving this? Is it a permission issue or user issue? I assumed the chmod 777 would allow 'other' users to write to it? Any help appreciated.