By mstine1978 on

I have filled out the Database Configuration form after coming to a fresh install of Drupal 5. When I submit the form, it keeps coming back to the same page w/ the form cleared out. Any ideas?

Thanks.

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MadKiller’s picture

MadKiller commented

Give rw permissions to iusr_machinenameon C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\drupal\sites directory

spazz27’s picture

spazz27 commented

Hi,

I am having the exact same problem, but I don't know how to change the permissions or verify that they are correct?

We have IIS.

Can you send some step by step instructions on how to make sure the permissions are set correctly?

kiamori’s picture

kiamori commented

Server admin should take the following steps on an IIS Server for security permission setup of drupal.

IIS5
Right click "sites" under your drupal root folder.
Click properties.
Security.
Advanced.
uncheck to allow inheritable permissions, copy.
If it is not already there add and select "IUSR_computername" or custom account used for access of anonymous access via IIS.
uncheck all but read/write
done.

IIS6
Right click "sites" under your drupal root folder.
Click properties.
Security.
Advanced.
uncheck to allow inheritable permissions, copy.
If it is not already there add and select "authenticated users" or custom account used for access of anonymous access via IIS.
uncheck all but read/write
done.

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kentonjones commented

Just an additional note to the above. I went mental trying to find out how to do the above as the 'Security' tab was never displayed no matter what I did.

If you experience the same, in Windows Explorer, at the My Computer level go to Tools/Folder Options and then select the View tab. Scroll down to the bottom of the list and de-select the 'Use simple file sharing' option. You should then get the Security tab from which you can change the NTFS file permissions etc.

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alowe756 commented

I too, had a problem getting stuck on the database configuration step of the drupal-5.1 installation on win2k + apache 2.2.4 + php5.2.0

let us say its not the best first impression.
I mean exceptions occur ... and good software catches them, no? would a log entry be too much to ask?

but, after finding this page via the google search: drupal "database configuration" I got it fixed. thanks!
in my case, just unprotecting the sites dir wasn't enough... I shotgunned the whole drupal dir and all subdirs. whatever.

how would one go about suggesting a tweak to the installation instructions at http://drupal.org/node/260 covering this issue?

it relates to an interaction between permissions on the extracted files, privileges of the logged in user and the user under which the apache or iis service runs. so there's a variety of ways it could appear.

btw, another apparently unrelated problem installing 5.1 involved tweaking php.ini (see http://drupal.org/node/109529):

; error_reporting = E_ALL
error_reporting=E_ALL & ~E_NOTICE

if u r curious, check your apache log.

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yesct commented

I found this old post when searching for a solution to my problem, and ended up here:
#312144: Install fails when default.settings.php is not present

Thought others might want to know about that possibility too. (Seems to happen in D6 and D7)