Installing Drupal

I had to change the file extension from .tar-1 to .tar. Don't know why it added it, but there it is.

I installed 6.14 some time ago, never paid it much attention, and when I ran it again today I was advised to update. I downloaded the Drupal 6.2 zipped archive, and when I attempted to extract it to my HD, I got an alert window that says, 'Archive does not exist - FileName is blank.'

I searched the Support Forum to no avail.

Hi Everybody,

I have this problem. I have a really big dataabase (3.3 GB) and I made a dump and everything is ok but when I try to import this database (in the same server or in another computer) I can't and the poblem is the accesslog table wich size more than 1 GB
I tried the next:
Dump of database (OK)
Import (The importation stops in some moment)

ALTER TABLE accesslog DISABLE KEYS (OK)
dump (OK)
import (OK)
ALTER TABLE accesslog ENABLE KEYS -> In this moment just stop

Hi, i have had a standard html website for some time but have recently been introduced to drupal, i am having a few problems with the installation, i have logged into mysql setup the database and put drupal onto my webspace but i keep getting this error message when i try access the page

(Based on my 1 week knowledge of Drupal)

Referring to: http://drupal.org/cron

Cron is the same as task scheduler for Windows. A task scheduler is pretty much that: A system that schedule tasks. What tasks? For example: A task that backups some file at some time of the day.

Cron does something similar for Drupal, but at a 'behind the scenes' level. Tasks that are not pertinent for a non-technical person to know about.

All that I know is that it's needed and it needs to be configured. Why doesn't Drupal installation already set this up for you? No clue. Maybe because it depends on your system hardware and software.

Depending on your hosting provider. Our best bet is to google "hosting provider cron". Such as "godaddy cron", or whatever your hosting is

After googling, I found that the Cron setup can be done in your Cpanel. And it is very easy.

It gives you a couple of fields to fill out. But basically what you need to do is schedule the task:
- Setup a time for the task
- Setup the task itself (In other words what task do you want to do?)

1. Time task (When the task happens)
- The configuration for time uses a template with 5 digit fields such as: * * * * *. Which means: minute hour dayofmonth month dayofweek
- So you have to specify a number for each of the five fields. An asterisk is used to mean "at any time"

This might be helpful to someone trying to get a system configured.

I had created custom content types for what will be a newspaper archive. Most of the fields are Text, but List (either both Text and Integer) made more sense for some.

Testing showed that some worked better as text, so I deleted the list fields and recreated them. But after that I got a 500 error when I attempted to edit any of the remaining list fields. No error showed up in either the Drupal or Apache logs.

I eventually disabled the Lists module, then re-enabled it. The problem went away.

Installing Drupal for the first time and using the guide from lynda.com.

Configuring database, I
Database name: drupal
Database username: root

I get the following error message.