Installing Drupal

I am a Windows IIS admin and we need to deploy Drupal internally. Can someone help on how to go about it?

I wonder if I can modify a file or any way to reset my site to "Open to the public"...
yvesbire.com/ybm/

Thank you all.
Yves G. Bire Márqeuz.

multi-site installation when Drupal codebase is in sub-folder.

I have domain "example1.com/emploi"
Drupal codebase is in "example1.com/emploi" folder
I have example2.com domain and folder with the same name in /all/sites directory, it's running ok from the common codebase.

I want to have separate Views 2 and Views 3 modules for example1 and example2 sites.
And I need now to create a folder in "/all/sites" for for my first domain "example1.com/emploi",
I can't create folder with "/" sign and I suppose that just "example1.com" folder name is not full.

My server was hacked [yet again!] and all the files deleted including the backups of the core installation files... all i have now is the SQL database. Is there a way to restore my drupal installation from this alone? [I think the possibilities of that are very low! :(] if not what are the things i can restore from the database?

Hi guys,

I just recently installed Drupal in a sandbox environment. It looks like this....

lb1a (haproxy / heartbeat)
lb1b (haproxy / heartbeat )

app1 (apache / php / mysql master)
app2 (apache / php / mysql slave )

Please note I am replicating apache db's not clustering yet.

The haproxy configuration is most likely irrelevant, but I figured better to disclose this up front just in case....

When I went through the install for drupal I did this while connected to app2. Now after rsync'ing the /var/www/tuxlabs/html tree to app1 and trying to browse to the page I get the "Site Offline" message indicating a database connectivity / authentication issue.

I have verified I can access mysql using the "websql" user on both app1 and app2 manually. Once connected I select the "tuxwiki" database and select * from watchdog;

All of this works great.

Inside my settings.php the url is set to connect to "localhost".

When I connect to app2, this works great, but when I connect to app1, I get the message.

The crappy thing here is, my replication is 1 way master -> slave and it appears I have something only working on the slave that I isn't configured on the mysql master, but I don't know what that something can be.

I have been spinning in circles for over a week trying to install Drupal on Suse linux 11.3
I am sure it doesn't help that I am new to linux, but am I deluded to think that an install can be done by someone that is not a linux guru?

In guide after guide I run into things like "Step 4: Browse to your new Drupal site" with no explaination of how to do the action.
How do I "Browse to (my) new Drupal site"?

http://localhost brings up an apache page.
typing 'public_html' into the address bar is useless.