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Hello all, I am new to Drupal and am inquiring to see if it will meet the needs of a site I have to build. The site will be an online community that will allow for users to setup a basic web page/online profile for their business. I'd like users to be able to create a profile and enter the details of their business, descriptions, pictures along with a map feature that will show where they are located on a map (google maps?). When they sign-up thier business type would be categorised with other similar businesses i.e. hoteliers group, restaurateurs etc.

come to find out since my site is hosted on powweb.com server I have to install Drupal thru control panel and thats ver 4.7. Isee that we have 5.0 now. My computer @ home is just the developing computer where I upload the files to the server thru ftp. Since I use Drupal this way can I still update and add modules and can I upgrade Drupal when its available? I want to be able to create my site in anyway I can with no restrictions from powwebs server. How would I do this. I sure dont want to go thru changing my home computer into a server. Show me the way all you techy gurus out there.

Heres what I did so far

1 - I downloaded Drupal 5.0 from drupal.org to my computer

2 - I unzipped it w/ 7-zip and placed all files in the correct folder in my site folder on my computer. I uploaded all files in that folder to powweb (my hosting company I have) in the correct folder like on my computer.

3 - I went to the site thru my browser and so far the first step is setting up my database for mysql. Now I take it that this this is the same database I setup thru powwebs (my hosting company) control panel. They allow you to setup up your mysql database on the server thru control panel.

4 - I put this same info in the boxes on the drupal database setup page you see when you first setup your site. This is what I run into.

Database name (The name of the mysql database your Drupal data will be stored in. It must exist on your server before Drupal can be installed.)
I input jaymediaspot because that is what I named it in powweb.com

Database username - I inputted jaydigga cause thats what I named it
database pass - inputted what I entered when I had set it up on powweb

When I hit save configurations this is what I get...

Failure to connect to your MySQL database server. MySQL reports the following message: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' (2).
Are you sure you have the correct username and password?

There's been some issues with my drupal site, and its been suggested that perhaps there's an issue with the sequences table. However, there is not sequences table in my drupal database? Is this is a major error? What fields and entries would a normal sequences table look like?

Is the site to download from getting hammered right now? Are there any download mirrors? I am trying to download 5.1, but it is not working right now, just runs forever, and never gives me a download box in Firefox.

Brandon

I'm new within php - but have installed "oscommerce" for my online shop www.gltrading.dk
now I would like to test Drupal - downloaded the 5-version - and installed it.
PROBLEM:
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Warning: Table 'sessions' already exists query: CREATE TABLE sessions ( uid int unsigned NOT NULL, sid varchar(64) NOT NULL default '', hostname varchar(128) NOT NULL default '', timestamp int NOT NULL default '0', cache int NOT NULL default '0', session longtext, KEY uid (uid), PRIMARY KEY (sid), KEY timestamp (timestamp) ) /*!40100 DEFAULT CHARACTER SET UTF8 */ in /usr/local/www/gltradingdk/www/drupal51/includes/database.mysql.inc on line 172

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I found this from 2004 -
database prefix
Bart Jansens - July 23, 2004 - 08:21
It is available in 4.4.2 but there is no install script yet (there might be one in the next release but i'm not sure, haven't heard about it in a while).

To use a database prefix you basically have to do two things,
1) set the $db_prefix variable in conf.php
2) edit database.mysql and add the database prefix to every table name. This can be done with find & replace (my $db_prefix is set to "drup_"):
find: "CREATE TABLE" replace by: "CREATE TABLE drup_"
find: "INSERT INTO" replace by: "INSERT INTO drup_"
find: "REPLACE " replace by: "REPLACE drup_"