[support] Getting Drupal6 running on Debian LAMP system

[Don]

  Looking at something a bit more mundane, is this any help?
https://drupal.org/node/177322

-Don-

On 9/19/2010 10:59 PM, Gary Roach 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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