By flashy on

Hi All,

I've made Drupal sites live before (even though I still consider myself a begginer), however I'm struggling with Drupal 7. The issue lies with editing the settings.php file to configure my server from local to live settings. The setup of the document seems different and I'm struggling to understand where and how I can add the information correctly.

Having looked online, I can't find anything which helps me.

Can you somebody please outline how I should be editing the settings.php file?

I presume this is what I need to edit:

$databases = array (
'default' =>
array (
'default' =>
array (
'database' => 'flashy',
'username' => 'username',
'password' => 'password',
'host' => 'localhost',
'port' => '',
'driver' => 'mysql',
'prefix' => '',
),
),
);

All other sentences on the document start with '*', which I presume makes them obsolete.

Any help will be much appreciated... I've been struggling to get this website live for days now.

⋅ Categories: Drupal 7.x

Comments

suryanto’s picture

suryanto
Primary language Indonesian
Location Bali, Indonesia
commented

it seems you have correct configuration file, perhaps your web host do not meet Drupal 7 requirements.

Drupal 7 will only support MySQL 5.0.15 or higher, and requires the PDO database extension for PHP

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Suryanto Rachmat

flashy’s picture

flashy commented

Thanks Suryanto - My MySQL is still 5.0 (with Fasthost) so I presume this is the reason behind my problems.

But I've been getting the WSOD (white screen) once everything has been uploaded, could this indicate another problem??

This is proving very frustrating... especially considering I've just signed to a hosting package which seems to be incompatible!

Is it inappropriate to ask for somebody to look at this for me if I give them the details? I've seen this happen in previous forums.

seanray’s picture

seanray commented

You could follow the guide here drupal.org/node/158043 to see what error drupal really report.