[support] Getting Drupal6 running on Debian LAMP system

[Maurice Mengel]

I don't know about Drupal package which comes with Debian, but it seems from
what you say that instructions are the same as in standard drupal and not
really ideal for your installation.

Anyways, googling your error message brings me to this:
http://www.mkyong.com/web-development/drupal-error-php-installation-currently-does-not-support-mysql/

It's not quite the same, but maybe close enough.

Do you know where your settings.php file is in the first place. If not,
maybe use
$ locate sites/default/settings.php

If you read settings.php carefully, the comments there should tell you what
to do.
I guess you need to set the database settings $db_url

Other things that come to mind are checking if mysqls really runs and if it
is accessible from php (via  phpinfo()).

hope that helps

<http://www.mkyong.com/web-development/drupal-error-php-installation-currently-does-not-support-mysql/>

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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