Installing Drupal

Well, I have a multisite (sub directory) development installation on Windows server using XAMPP. The multisite development consists of 2 sites and one shop. I developed everything and it went just fine. The sites are running smooth on my local development server.
Now it's time to move one of them. which is finished to a production site hosted on a dedicated server. Since the multisite is configured as sub-directories what are the steps to be made to migrate just one of them to another server?

I thought this would be a simple question, but after searching through the install tutorials I didn't see any mention of how to set up the permissions, only in regards to the settings.php file. I did a search on google and found a bunch of very comprehensive and completely useless instructions on the topic, but still don't seem to see anything anywhere on what permissions should be set for which folders, such as the default/files folder.

Any help or a link would be appreciated. Thanks.

Hey I'm trying to install Drupal 6 on my local machine. I'm running Apache 2.2 (w/PHP) and MySQL 5.1 server. I'm using SQLyog too.

The drupal installation is at the root directory, it opens fine and loads, but when the page asks for the database connection, after I enter the user name and password and database (host set to localhost) it just takes forever and won't load the next page, just gives me a blank page after about 1 minute.

I've altered the database to be utf8 to see if that would fix it, but no.

I've restarted my computer, but no.

Hello and thanks in advance.

I'm completely confused with multi site installation. I added a new directory (drupal-6.19/sites/newsite.com) and copied the install.php file into it. Bringing this up resulted in a bunch of errors for functions that could not be found. E.g.:

Warning: require_once(./modules/system/system.install) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/user123/cms/drupal-6.19/install.php on line 26

Fatal error: require_once() [function.require]: Failed opening required './modules/system/system.install' (include_path='.:/usr/local/lib/php:/usr/local/php5/lib/pear') in /home/user123/cms/drupal-6.19/install.php on line 26

I've tried making install.php a copy of the original file or a symbolic link and neither works.

So I added symbolic links to all the required directories, but I get an error:

Requirements problem
The following errors must be resolved before you can continue the installation process:

* The Drupal installer requires that you create a settings file as part of the installation process.
1. Copy the ./sites/default/default.settings.php file to ./sites/default.
2. Change file permissions so that it is writable by the web server. If you are unsure how to grant file permissions, please consult the on-line handbook.
More details about installing Drupal are available in INSTALL.txt.

Having downloaded Drupal I have used 7 zip to unzip yet only find the one file inside (tar-6.19) where I was expecting a whole directory. Am I missing something along the way?

I am fairly new to CMS although I have been putting basic HTML sites together for a while now.