[support] newbie

[Alfredo De Luca]

Hi Alison....I don't think it matter where your Doc Root is....

Anyway I am running Ubuntu Maverick, Apache2 web server, PHP 5, latest MySQL
and the latest Drupal.



On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 22:36, Alison <penguin at alisoncc.com> wrote:

>  Are you running Linux or Windows?
>
> My understanding is that most Linux distributions access drupal via
> "/var/www/"  unless you have some links activated. On both my Centos and
> OpenSUSE boxes the main html file index file is at
> "/var/www/html/index.html"  Wouldn't make sense to have it under
> Apache2/htdocs on a Linux box..
>
> Alison
>
>
>
> At 10:24 PM 4/01/2011, you wrote:
>
> Follow up!
>
> I tried to give all the permissions to all directories and files in order
> to avoid any problems related to that but nothing.
>
> I've already noticed that I think even if the page says it's all ok when I
> looked in the directory tree nothing changed and any directories or files
> created....
> How is it should be?
> My Doc Root is /usr/local/apache2/htdocs and under this directory there are
> all the files (and dir) downloaded from Drupal but I should find under sites
> directory my website like www.alfredo.com....am I right? But it's not
> there.
>
> Regards
> Al
>
> On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 18:55, Alfredo De Luca <alfredo.deluca at gmail.com >
> wrote: Hi Maurice.
> What I did is 1)download the tar ball 2) unzippped and put under my
> Apache2 web server doc root 3) Install PHP  and MySql and create DB and
> user then all the settings.php permission 4) Start the web server and
> point the web browser to localhost/install.php and it asked questions about
> DB name, user and web admin uder and then straight away it says succesful
> and start your web site. 5) Then I have the page like to start (live
> Admin, contents and so on) but anythink I press in that page keeps bringing
> me to a default index page you usually have when you install apache.
> I tried a couple of time with Google Chrome then with Firefox but the same
> thing happend.
> Now as far as you know what should I expected under the doc root after the
> Drupal installation? Anything under sites/default/files?
> Thanks
>
> Alfredo On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 03:11, Maurice Mengel <
> mauricemengel at gmail.com > wrote: Hi Alfredo,
> Your problem seems vaguely familiar, but I don't remember anymore when I
> had it or what I did then.
> I would guess that you didn't install drupal in the server root directory,
> but instead in a subdirectory (which should be perfectly possible). There
> must be something else which mixes up the links. Maybe you set an url in
> settings.php which is only necessary in very weird cases. If you did
> revert it.
> Anyways, we need more info from you.
> 1) Can you log in at all? 2) exampledomain.com/admin or
> exampledomain.com/subdir/admin should get you to admin page (after logging
> in) 3) can you tell where your (wrong) links are pointing? 4) which server
> are you using?
> best maurice
>
> On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 12:47 AM, Alfredo De Luca <alfredo.deluca at gmail.com>
> wrote: > Hi there. > As I said I am newbie with Drupal but today I figured
> out how to install it > and ready to go except now I have the welcome page
> " > > Welcome to your new Drupal website!" to start with and I guess I
> have to > configure my website and so on. > > When I press any of those
> link it keeps showing me my apache welcome page. > > What am I missing?
> Mysql is up and running and php seems working. > Any clue? > Cheers >
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