Installing Drupal

I'm about to install Drupal 7. The default PHP for Ubuntu server 10.04LTS is 5.3.2

Should I downgrade to 5.2? I believe the core is compatible with 5.3, right? How about modules?

Thanks!
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Hi,

I am following the tutorials on lynda.com for Drupal 6 Essential Training, I have also found the tutorial for installing Drupal on this site. I am clearly missing something and was wondering if someone wouldn't mind helping. I've over and over this without success.

So;

I'm trying to install Drupal on my computer so I can learn the basics before bringing down the web because of a stupid mistake of mine!

Hello everyone,

I think I messed up my database setup trying to change the default 'no password' for the 'root' user. How do you change that?

After installing wamp2.0h and drupal6.19 the database user was 'root' with no password and all seemed ok except for a message at the bottom of phpadmin advising me to use a password. I tried to add password to the database in phpadmin under privileges and now when I try to use phpadmin I get a message that says the database cannot be opened. Can someone help me undo what I did without having to reinstall?

Hi,
I have downloaded both drupal 6.19 and drupal 7. Neither are in folders. Anyone know where to find information to get the files into the correct folder or are there downloads with this already done?

Hi, I just installed Drupal. I've been coding webpages and software from scratch for 5 years now. I've just recently stumbled upon CMS's - which apparently allow developers to create web pages extremely fast without needing to code anything. I've installed Joomla and Wordpress in addition to Drupal, and I must say - THIS IS SOME COMPLEX STUFF! I am still shocked because I thought it would be easier. Perhaps it is and I just haven't grasped it yet, coming from a background where web design was manual...

I've ran into a plethora of kinks, some of which were so simple once resolved, but took soooooo many days to find the answers to. So far, Drupal seems to be the most interesting, I've seen some AMAZING sites built using it. However, it also appears to be the most complex/difficult to achieve building just a simple 3-page test site so that I can test/see how Drupal works.

My main problem is that whenever I make a change, such as disabling a link here:
http://localhost/drupal/?q=admin/build/menu-customize/navigation

It actually deletes the link from the administration page that Drupal uses. I'm assuming Drupal thinks it's own administration page is the default website project... That is alarming. To think, if I deleted all the links I'd probably destroy my installation of Drupal entirely... It seems like a really fragile system.