[support] Getting Drupal6 running on Debian LAMP system

[Gary Roach]

I took Neal Adairs advice and used the tar.gz file. I also ripped out 
the old installation and re-installed using XAMPP. Everything went 
smoothly with all of the installation going into a new /opt directory. I 
used phpmyadmin to create a "me" user and a "drupal" database. I then 
ran http://localhost/drupal. Everything progressed in an orderly manner 
until I got to the "Setup Database" item. I filled in the required data 
and punched "Save and Continue."  The browser flashed done, the blank 
form returned with no error messages but drupal didn't go to "Install 
Site". I repeated this a couple of times with the same results. Any 
suggestions.

Thanks everyone for your support.

Gary R.

> On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 11:59 PM, Gary Roach 
> <gary719_list1 at verizon.net <mailto: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.
>
>     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.
>
>     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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