By mbehrens on

I installed Drupal over six weeks ago. I finally have some time to delve into this and I cannot remember where to go to log-in.

I'm thinking I go to my browser and then: http://localhost/drupal. If this is true, I get the error message, 'could not connect to the server "localhost"'

I'm very new to this, but I know I had Drupal running at one time. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

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nancydru
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It depends on how you set it up; there could be several ways. If you look through my book, perhaps you can get an idea how to make it work.

Nancy W.
now running 5 sites on Drupal so far
Drupal Cookbook (for New Drupallers)
Adding Hidden Design or How To notes in Your Database

NancyDru

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Mel55113 commented

I usually run into this problem when I haven't first started Apache (and MySQL) using XAMPP.

Did you install Drupal into a "drupal" directory in your server's root directory? You need to specify the directory you used if it isn't the server root.

Hope this helps,
Mel

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ramesh@drupal.org commented

make sure you started your apache and mysql server and then access, if not able to access then also. let me know.
cheers
ramesh

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mbehrens commented

I am using MAMP and it is showing that my Apache server and MySQL server are running. (I am on a mac). I thought that if I changed the address to 'http://localhost/drupal-4.7.5' (the version I downloaded), I might have different luck. But, such is not the case. I'm still getting the message that the browswe could not connect to the server.

Thanks

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mbehrens commented

node/66187: HOWTO: Create a local server environment for drupal using MAMP

The correct address is:
http://localhost:8888/drupal-4.7.5

I think I'll toast to that!