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By Ray Seaman on
First, let me say that I'm VERY new, yet am nonetheless very excited about all the potential Drupal has to offer. However, I'm having some trouble installing Drupal. I've installed the apache2triad package onto my PC and downloaded Drupal (v. 4.7.4) into the 'htdocs' folder inside C:\apache2triad. I have also created a database and populated it with all the necessary tables and structures needed for Drupal to function.
The problem I am having is in the configuration process. I'm told to go into C:\apache2triad\htdocs\drupal-4.7.4\sites\default and open up the settings.php file and modify some code. The problem is I can't open it up. I receive the following message:
"Runtime Error!
Program: C:\apache2triad\PHP\bin\PHP.exe
R6034
An application has made an attempt to load the C runtime library incorrectly. Please contact the application's support team for more information."
What's the matter?
Once again, let me say I'm no computer science person and am not very technical. So I apologize if this issue has already been dealt with in some other past forum. I'm told one of the great aspects of Drupal is being able to talk to an entire community of experienced (an amateur) developers. I have the desire to learn, so I would appreciate your help. Thanks.
Comments
It sounds like when you are
It sounds like when you are trying to open the settings.php file it is being opened using the PHP file rather than a text editor (like notepad).
The best thing to do is probably open notepad (or the editor of you choice, PSpad (google it) is very good) and then use file->open to open the settings.php file ...
hope this helps ...
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That Did the Trick!
Yipeee! PSPad helped out a bunch. Thanks, you really saved the day.