[support] error installing drupal

[Michael Prasuhn]

On Sep 3, 2008, at 12:56 PM, Matthew Lechleider wrote:
> Delete all Drupal files.
>
> Upload all of the Drupal files.
>
> If you are still having issues, check file permissions.


Wrong. You will still have to manual copy the default.settings.php to  
settings.php before installing, even after copying a fresh copy of  
drupal.


On Sep 3, 2008, at 1:32 PM, peeyush gulati wrote:
>  May be this helps you.
>
> Just check if you have a file named default.settings.php at the path  
> <drupal installation->sites->default->default.settings.php
>
> Also ensure that the same file has read write permissions. Once the  
> installation if dome you can change it back to read only mode.


Wrong. default.settings.php doesn't even have to exist for install.  
The settings.php file does need to exist. Also, default.settings.php  
never needs to be writable, or readable for that matter.

On Sep 3, 2008, at 2:09 PM, Earnie Boyd wrote:
> The directory sites/default needs write access by the httpd server  
> as well.

Wrong. This is not required. Drupal will not be able to create the  
files directory for you, but you can do that manually.

This is with the latest Drupal 6.4. Drupal 6.2 and earlier have  
different requirements, but no one should be trying to install that  
anymore.

It would be nice if folks tried to at least verify the advice they  
give before sending it out to thousands of people.

-Mike

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