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By Bassel on
Hi,
I know I am missing something here, but I would really appreciate your help.
I am new to Drupal and I am trying to install it on my machine (Windows).
I have IIS5.0, PHP, MySQL installed and working well on my machine. And I created Drupal database on MySQL.
What I can't understand in the installation steps illustrated in "INSTALL.txt" provided with Drupal installtion, is where they mention that you should:
"To run the install script point your browser to the base url of your website (i.e. http://www.example.com). You will be presented with the "Database Configuration" page."
What exactly is meant here? I really don't get it. I am trying to build a new site locally on my machine hosted by the local IIS.
Many thanks in advance,
Bassel
Comments
Well, it assumes you're
Well, it assumes you're installing on a live webserver, so you'd point your browser to your base directory of your install site. Instead, you should point it to the base directory of your local install.
Re:Well, it assumes you're
Thanks for your help.
You mean by "local install" that I should point to "http://localhost/drupal-5.1/"
or to the site that I plan to create like "http://localhost/myproject/"
But in either cases I can't see how the install script should be activated?
Bassel
By local install I mean the
By local install I mean the base directory where drupal's files reside.
The install script is install.php I believe - maybe index.php ? Sorry, I can't recall off the top of my head. When the browser points to that file in the base directory of the drupal installation, the installation procedure begins by asking for your MySQL database info, and then procedes with the install.
RE: By local install I mean the
Well I already tried that.
I have uncompressed the Drupal "drupal-5.1.tar.gz" file under the "C:\Inetpub\wwwroot". And I pointed my browser to:
http://localhost/drupal-5.1/index.php
and
http://localhost/drupal-5.1/install.php
And in both cases I got the "The page cannot be found" message in my browser.
I gave the "drupal-5.1" folder all the permissions on IIS.
PHP and MySQL are properly working on my machine as I tried my own written PHP site with no problems.
Bassel
RE: By local install I mean the
Well I already tried that.
I have uncompressed the Drupal "drupal-5.1.tar.gz" file under the "C:\Inetpub\wwwroot". And I pointed my browser to:
http://localhost/drupal-5.1/index.php
and
http://localhost/drupal-5.1/install.php
And in both cases I got the "The page cannot be found" message in my browser.
I gave the "drupal-5.1" folder all the permissions on IIS.
PHP and MySQL are properly working on my machine as I tried my own written PHP site with no problems.
Bassel
Me too
I am also facing the sme problem. I am using combination of Apache, PHP and Mysql. I am able to run php program, create n edit databases in mysql and Apache is also running properly.
But when I type http://localhost/drupal-5.2/index.php in my browser it gives error as:
Your web server does not appear to support any common database types. Check with your hosting provider to see if they offer any databases that Drupal supports
What cud be the reason behind it?
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