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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 <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://localhost/drupal">http://localhost/drupal</a>. 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.<br>
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Thanks everyone for your support.<br>
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Gary R.<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 11:59 PM, Gary Roach
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<div text="#000000" bgcolor="#ffffff">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.<br>
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<div><font color="#ff0000">In your <em>./sites/default/settings.php</em>
file you have configured Drupal to use a <em></em> server, however
your PHP installation currently does not support this database type.</font></div>
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<p>Please check the error messages and <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://cruncher/drupal6/install.php?profile=default"
target="_blank">try again</a>.<br>
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<p>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. <br>
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<p>Any suggestions.<br>
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<p>Gary R.<br>
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