[support] Getting Drupal6 running on Debian LAMP system

[Maurice Mengel]

After successfully running thru the update.php, drupal should have created
many tables inside the database. If it didn't, something is wrong. Usually
drupal tells me if it has any kind of problem with the database setup during
this step, but from what you say, it didn't complain. Hence a strange error.

I still guess it's due to the database rights. INSTALL.mysql.txt says you
need GRANT SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE, CREATE, DROP, INDEX, ALTER for
your database drupal and your user. I avoid phpmysql admin, so I don't know
how exactly to do this best with this tool. I don't know what "All, Grant"
means exactly. Does it really mean grant all rights? Are you sure you are
looking in the right db? Maybe need to flush privileges? Are you sure you
are looking at the right db? From what you said earlier it seems you called
it "drupal".

I think you are almost there and the next time it will be easier!

best
Maurice



On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 2:48 PM, Gary Roach <gary719_list1 at verizon.net>wrote:

> Reply to Maurice:
>     localhost/index.php -> XAMPP Welcome Page
>     localhost/drupal/index.php -> Drupal Setup Page (same as with
> localhost/drupal)
>
>     phpmyadmin shows that the drupal database exists and has "All, Grant"
> privileges. MySQL is the same. The database engine should be wide open. *No
> tables were created by drupal setup.* This seems to conform to the
> requirements of the references.
>
> Gary R.
>
>
>
>
> On 09/20/2010 11:04 AM, Maurice Mengel wrote:
>
> 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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