[support] Installing php/mysql issues

[Tom Holmes Jr.]

I am only trying to provide as much information in the hopes that 
someone can tell me "do xyz and all set"
Of course that is rarely the case ....

So, I just downloaded the latest 5.4 version of Drupal and SCP'ed the 
whole gz file to the server.
I gunzipped and untarred the file to the right location of my Apache 2.0 
server. 
I initialized the database and set that back up ....
For some reason .... the user that owned the new directory was 1080 root 
even though I untarred the file as root .. bizarre.
I had to change the all the files and directories to be owned by root 
... and then chmod of settings.php file to 777 to start.

When I went to the install page ... that went very well, and I got to 
the first page to create the first account.
I created the first account ... but rather than giving me the password 
... it went to the login page saying I did not have access to that page.

At least I am getting closer .... and now I am getting errors in the 
apache error_log ... I get lots of them ....
undefined variables and undefined indexes ....
But I will keep trying to get Drupal to where it is running fine 
.............  what a challenge!

Earnie Boyd wrote:
> Quoting "Tom Holmes Jr." <tom at tomholmes.net>:
>
>   
>> Checked all the permissions and they are fine .... they are owned by
>> user/group root.
>> All the files are 644, and all the directories are 775 .... same issue
>> as before:
>>
>> PHP Fatal Error: Call to undefined function: user_access() in
>> /var/www/html/drupal/modules/block/block.module on line 68
>>
>> line 68 is:         'access' => user_access('administer_blocks'),
>>
>>     
>
> user_access is defined in user.module of the required core user module. 
>   How would you be able to not have a required function defined?
>
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