[support] [Done] Getting Drupal6 running on Debian LAMP system

[Gary Roach]

I finally decided that my hangup problem was due to the old installation 
of mysql that I couldn't seem to completely strip from the system. I 
re-installed the operating system and did  a desktop only installation. 
I then used XAMPP to create the web site. I loaded up Drupal and 
everything works fine.  Tip:  don't leave an old copy of MySQL on your 
system. It can screw everything up.

Thanks everyone.

Gary  R.

On 09/20/2010 12:45 PM, Maurice Mengel wrote:
> 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 
> <mailto: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 <mailto: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
>>>         <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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