Installing Drupal

Hello All,

For the life of me, I cannot connect to my database. I am manually installing Drupal 6.18 onto dreamhost. I have all of the files installed, created a new database for the site as well as a new user, changed the database host, but I cannot connect to the database. I am certain that the passwords are correct as well. Whenever I attempt to connect, it just brings me back to the database input page. I've even attempted to connect using a different browser; same results.

Say that you install Drupal 6 and you want to disable or preferably remove pushbutton or minnelli or the blog module? Would that be possible through overrides in drush_make? Or should I use Features? Alternatively, is there an example for doing this through an installation profile?

Also, when using someone else's installation profile, would you be able to do the same for modules installed by that profile, again preferably through overrides? Or with Features?

Specificly a contributed module, for example admin_menu.

Hi!
I am new to this forum, and will appreciate any help or suggestions to my problem.
I am new to Drupal and I installed it only once few months ago. Now I have to move the website to another server and for this reason I need to install it again (Drupal 6.17). I faced the following problem when it comes to the point where I am supposed to Set up the database, I insert all the necessary data, then I click "Save and continue" and nothing happens... Not even an error message... Only white screen as if the page is loading, but its not

Hi Everyone,

I realize others have had this issue of being stuck at the database configuration screen during the Drupal install however after reading many posts I still find myself perplexed. I think the issue revolves around changing the permissions on the /sites/default/settings.php file. As detailed in the setup instructions I give the user IIS_IUSRS the "write" permission yet after I enter my database name, user, and password I am presented with the same database configuration screen with all the fileds blank. If I edit the settings.php file directly and enter in my database details the setup proceeds without issue. Why is Drupal unable to write to the settings.php file even though I gave the account IIS_USRS the write permission?

What is even more perplexing is that after Drupal is setup I run the "Status" check under reports and the following error message ...

The directory sites/default is not protected from modifications and poses a security risk. You must change the directory's permissions to be non-writable. The file sites/default/settings.php is not protected from modifications and poses a security risk. You must change the file's permissions to be non-writable.

When I started using the Drupal these instructions http://drupal.org/node/21145 were correct & you could get a tarball of all the translation files from here http://drupal.org/project/Translations