[support] immediate installation errors

[Tim McGeary]

Greetings,

I'm trying to install Drupal 5.1 and I am getting the following errors 
immediately upon attempting the installation through the browser:

Notice: Undefined variable: no_module_preprocess in 
/usr/local/drupal-5.1/includes/common.inc on line 1467

Notice: Undefined variable: no_theme_preprocess in 
/usr/local/drupal-5.1/includes/common.inc on line 1488

and

Drupal database setup
The following error must be resolved before you can continue the 
installation process:
The Drupal installer requires write permissions to 
./sites/default/settings.php during the installation process.

For the write permissions error, I set the permissions to 777 for 
everything inside the drupal-5.1 directory and all files are owned by 
apache.apache.

I have no clue how to move forward.  Please advise.

Thank you,
Tim

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Tim McGeary '99, '06G
Senior Systems Specialist
Lehigh University
610-758-4998
tim.mcgeary at lehigh.edu