[drupal-support] Installation problems

[puregin]

On 17 Jun 2005, at 7:34 PM, Tib wrote:

>
> Everything went smoothly at first until it came time to point a web
> browser at it and login.
>
> -------------------------------
> Warning: main(includes/database.inc) [function.main]: failed to open
> stream: No such file or directory in
> /home/tib/public_html/drupal/includes/bootstrap.inc on line 643
>
... scads of error messages omitted...


> Now what I'd like to know is if the first correction I made, by way of
> bootstrap.inc, will screw up other things in a kickdown fashion.
>
> Next how do I get around the database issue?
>
> Finally - why is this happening to start with?

     This would have been a good thing to think about before
changing anything :)

     What do your webserver logs tell you?  I'm inclined to
suspect that your webserver process does not have permission
to read the includes directory or its files.

     Djun