[support] Getting Drupal6 running on Debian LAMP system

[Neil Adair]

I've installed Drupal many times on Debian servers (I also built the
servers) and I've never even thought about trying to install from .deb using
apt. They were always very outdated versions of Drupal. Install Drupal from
the tar file according to the Drupal install instructions on a Debian server
and it will work like a charm.

Neil

On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 10:59 PM, Gary Roach <gary719_list1 at verizon.net>wrote:

>  I am trying to get a Debian Linux, Apache2, MySQL, PHP5 system going. All
> of the instructions that I find assume that I am installing from a tar file
> or some such. Debian installs everything, including the config files,
> automatically. The Dbian installation differs significantly from the
> documentation. I finally got Apache2, MySQL and  /drupal6/install.php
> running but immediately got the install.php error shown below.
> Choose language The following error must be resolved before you can
> continue the installation process:
> In your *./sites/default/settings.php* file you have configured Drupal to
> use a ** server, however your PHP installation currently does not support
> this database type.
>
>    - Install Drupal in English<http://cruncher/drupal6/install.php?profile=default&locale=en>
>    - Learn how to install Drupal in other languages<http://cruncher/drupal6/install.php?profile=default&localize=true>
>
> Please check the error messages and try again<http://cruncher/drupal6/install.php?profile=default>
> .
>
> When I finally found settings.php, the file had been automatically
> generated by the .deb installation script. There is nothing obviously wrong
> with it. Debian notes say to use install.php at this point to populate the
> data tables. Obviously this is not going to happen until the above error is
> fixed.
>
> Any suggestions.
>
> Gary R.
>
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