Installing Drupal

Hello,
I have started with Drupal and am pretty enthousiasticabout it :) But after some installation related issues, I decided to do a clean install. Actually I tried to move all Drupal files from the server root (/var/www) to a subdirectory but got some nasty 404 errors after that...
So a clean install. The INSTALL.TXT which comes with the distro orders to copy the contents of the archive file into the server root, change some permissions and run the install script.
But I do not want to put the files in my server root again! Just because I have some other (static) sites running on my server and want to keep things organized. My Drupal tutorial is just one of my projects...
So my proposal is to make a subdir under var/www called drupal 7, so the files will be copied to /var/www/drupal7
(Btw I use Ubuntu Linux with Apache and PHP5 and my base URL is www.drsklaus.nl, this is the URL that points to my IP address.
Is is good practice to use this subdirectory construction?
The INSTALL.TXT further orders to run the isntall script by browsing to your base URL to run the install script, but I guess that I need to browse to www.drsklaus.nl/drupal7 now.
Some complication issue is that I have my Apache default configuration (/etc/apache2/sites-available/default) point to the directory /var/www/www.drsklaus.nl/public_html, where my home site resides.

Hi all,

We've been working on a website recently. We found its performance is quite bad. Because of an urgent schedule, could anyone please suggest for us a way to solve the problem. Thanks a lot.

The website uses an AWS EC2 small instance, S3, and RDS.
We used http_load to test the performance of it and the result was less than 1 fetch/sec. (In fact, just around 0.3 fetch/sec). We disabled all modules, and then it came to around 4 fetches/sec. This is still quite bad when the other sites can easily reach 70 fetches/sec or more.

We know there are some EC2+Drupal images to use, but we have been working on this website for weeks, and there is not time left for us to restart from a fresh image.

We also built a fresh instance to see if the problem is due to our system configuration.
1. EC2 image: ami-e742a98e rightscale
2. OS: CentOS release 5.4 (Final)
3. MySQL version: mysql-server-5.0.77-4.el5_4.2
4. Apache version: httpd-2.2.3-31.el5.centos.4 php-5.2.4-el5.centos
5. Drupal: 6.19 and create a simple node (http://174.129.141.96/?q=node/1) for test.
6. Without any other adjustment.

With the fresh instance/apache/mysql, it can only reach 4 requests/sec, too. This is quite weird.
Could anyone suggest how to cope with this issue? Thanks.

[root@test test]# http_load -r 10 -s 10 ./testurl
36 fetches, 64 max parallel, 152352 bytes, in 10.0013 seconds

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Deprecated: Function ereg() is deprecated in C:\Program Files\wamp\www\drupal\includes\file.inc on line 895

Deprecated: Function ereg() is deprecated in C:\Program Files\wamp\www\drupal\includes\file.inc on line 895

Deprecated: Function ereg() is deprecated in C:\Program Files\wamp\www\drupal\includes\file.inc on line 895

Hi Everyone,

Thanks for you assistance in advance! I'm installing Drupal onto my server. I get to the part of entering Database name, username & password. I get no errors but drupal install doesn't save that info and moving to the install process. With was for Drupal 6.20

For testing I deleted everything installed 5.x with no issue. I then delete all data base content, etc. and then attempted to install 6.20. Issue still happening.

Help :)

Thanks

after config database. the installation turn to install site.
But there only 'Home'
Can't see installation progress bar as document say.

I use apache and php default in mac.

What should I do ?

Many thanks~

AND
I turn to localhost/drupal/index.php

there has :
Fatal error: Call to undefined function user_access() in /Library/WebServer/Documents/drupal/includes/theme.inc on line 1779

Hello Forum,

As you may have guessed, I am a total beginner with regards to Drupal (and any form of web design for that matter). I am looking just to create a basic Drupal site to get started with.

Other than Drupal/web design, I'm highly computer literate. What I am really after is someone kind enough to walk me through all the ropes of getting a site up and running from the very start. I have tried doing tutorials etc but many people are using different configurations and there are often subtle questions to which a tutorial may not answer.