[support] Getting Drupal6 running on Debian LAMP system

[Maurice Mengel]

A couple of questions come to mind

   - What do you get if go to http://localhost/index.php or
   http://localhost/drupal/index.php in our browser? (Assuming that you use
   standard port 80, local host and, possibly, as the url you provide suggests,
   drupal as a subdirectory in server root.)
   - If you look at database thru phpmyadmin you should be able to verify
   that database got populated with many tables. Right?
   - Did you set the necessary rights for database user and database? I
   think they are listed in INSTALL.TXT, or on d.o:
   http://drupal.org/getting-started/6/install/create-database

Maybe you just have a look at INSTALL.TXT.

best
maurice



On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 1:10 PM, Gary Roach <gary719_list1 at verizon.net>wrote:

>  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>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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