Installing Drupal

Hi, I am new to Drupal although I've worked with other CMSs.

I'm going to work with Drupal 7.

My understanding is that Drupal will notify you about module updates that are available.

Does that mean that it will notify you only about official update (i.e., alphas, betas, final releases)? What happens if I installed a dev version of a particular module? Will it allow me to upgrade from a dev to alpha 2 for example?

I assume that this update mechanism will be aware of versions compatible with drupal 7?

I am setting up Drupal with Yahoo! web hosting, and they use a different database hostname than 'localhost'. They use 'mysql'.

The problem is that when I try to set this in the installation using Advanced Options, it doesn't do anything. It just reloads the database installation page, with no errors, and all the fields have been wiped clean just like it was the first time I had visited that step.

I'm at the end of rope here, and am hoping on some insight on how to change this setting, or figure out why it's not working.

Any suggestions?

i tried to install drupal 7 rc1 on localhost (windows,apache,php,mysql) but failed. i get this message "The database version 3.3.7undefined is less than the minimum required version 3.3.7."

i installed drupal 6 before without any problem.

I’ve been using Drupal for close 3 years now and my relationship with this amazing Content Management System is one of love and hate. I’ve spent countless hours trying to fix bugs and countless hours embellishing my site so that it looks like it does today. My problem is that I’m not a programmer so a lot of the fixes and bugs encountered in Drupal can sometimes be confusing and extremely frustrating to update and understand, but like I said earlier there is definitely a strong affection for this system, it requires work, but when it is setup right it is amazing.

If yes, can someone please guide me on how to go about doing it? Thanks

Lets get this out of the way: I'm new to Drupal... ok, there I said it.

For 6 days I've been trying to copy my client's production Drupal install to a dev location to do some work. I've read countless forum postings and misc websites stating how EASY it is to move Drupal to another server or subdomain or subfolder. One even stated after his instructions that I should feel lucky I'm not using an inferior product like Joomla. Hmmph! I completed my very first Joomla server move in 25 minutes so go figure.

Here is what I have done:

1. Backup production db in full (phpMyAdmin)
2. Backup files to local drive (no root access on shared server)
3. Created a "dev" subdomain on cpanel which turns out is really just a subfolder instead of a subdomain.domain.com type thing like I'm used to
4. Copied all files from my local drive to new /dev subfolder
5. Restore entire db (except contents of watchdog and cache* tables) to new db titled "drupaldev"
6. update $db_url in /public_html/dev/sites/default/settings.php with new db name
7. Set $base_url in /public_html/dev/sites/default/settings.php to: 'http://domain.com/dev';
8. Set RewriteBase to "/dev/" in /public_html/dev/.htaccess
9. Hit domain.com/dev - I get the header and footer from my proper template BUT:
- The body of the page says "Page not found The requested page could not be found."