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:

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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:

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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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It shows me the login page..then I put my user/pass then the main index.hmtl appears. I noticed that every link doesn't have index.php in it like below.... http://localhost/?q=user/1 Then I put index.php and the right page came up. That's the issue <http://localhost/?q=user/1> On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 23:15, Fred Jones <fredthejonester@gmail.com> wrote:

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Great!! Don't worry about that....I fixed for now in httpd.conf other then putting index.html i added index.php and now it seems to work. Thanks all Alfredo On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 23:26, Fred Jones <fredthejonester@gmail.com> wrote:

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It shows me the login page..then I put my user/pass then the main index.hmtl appears. I noticed that every link doesn't have index.php in it like below.... http://localhost/?q=user/1 Then I put index.php and the right page came up. That's the issue

I am a genius. :)

So it's an .htaccess issue or even an Apache issue, i.e. your default file needs to be set to index.php and not index.htm or whatever it's set to now. But my genius ends here--someone else will have to say precisely how to adjust this. -- [ Drupal support list | http://lists.drupal.org/ ]