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@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.
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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