[support] Getting Drupal6 running on Debian LAMP system

[Victor Kane]

See my recent article VPS! Getting Drupal up and running on a linode
(revisited)
  http://awebfactory.com.ar/node/444
It assumes Ubuntu 9.04, but should work for Debian,

Victor Kane
http://awebfactory.com.ar
http://projectflowandtracker.com

On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 11:59 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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