Further:

You probably need to look at your Apache config file for the Directory directives. Mine at "/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf " includes the following towards the end:-

<Directory "/var/www/xxxxf">
        Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
        AllowOverride None
        Order allow,deny
        Allow from all
         RewriteEngine on
        RewriteBase /
        RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
        RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
        RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?q=$1 [L,QSA]
</Directory>

This tells Apache where find Drupal for that particular website.

Alison




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@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@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@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
> Alfredo
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