If you have a Drupal 5 or 6 site, then admin/reports/status has a PHP section, you can click on PHP and get the output of phpinfo() without having to create that page yourself (although you're already past that).<br><br>
Really the best thing you can do is try to run the install and see what breaks - if our instructions say 'install PDO first', they shouldn't - they should say 'try installing - here's what to do if it goes wrong'.<br>
<br>Nat<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 6:21 PM, adept digital evolution <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:techlists@ade.pt">techlists@ade.pt</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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If you're not up to the task of managing your own server, you shouldn't be using an unmanaged VPS. You should be using a managed VPS or a traditional shared host. There's nothing wrong with that; most people are not up to the task of running their own server. That's why managed hosts exist, shared or otherwise.<br>
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all your points well taken Larry.<br>
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If PDO is going to be on 95% of all web servers by default, then the About PDO page should come back out of the installation docs. And should be replaced by offering some command that can be run or some page that one can look at for determining whether it does already exist on one's server.<br>
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still in hopes of someone posting instructions for that so i can not only complete this test install but finish the editing job i promised to do to make the docs intelligible to the average "Drupal consumer".<div>
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kazar<br>
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