after it installs the 31 tables I suddenly get this message
The requested page "/" could not be found.

I tried changing the $base_url and the $cookie_domain in the settings.php but then it gets worse and I get a message "website cannot display this page"

So i dropped the database, recreated it, put back the settings.php which is a copy of the default.settings.php and am up to this point again where after the install of 31 tables it says "the requested page '/' could not be found"

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salah1’s picture

salah1
Location VA, U.S
commented

I understand, you trying to install drupal 7 and somewhere in the instalation, its stopping to work and you notice this happens around 31 tables being installed?

This could be caused by many things.
So, what you need is pointed error message that tells you what's the problem.

I suggest, you use drush. Once you have drush working, go to the site folder

cd yourDrupal install/sites
cd yoursiteName

#Then put your db credentials in settings.php and drush drush installer with -v option (verbose to spit out error messages)

drush -v site-install profileName

salah1’s picture

salah1
Location VA, U.S
commented

Also, are you using multi site install?
do you have clean url enabled?
when error is message displayed what url is in your browser? to continue past the error type the following
such that if your error message is at:

http://localhost/admin

replace it with and hit enter

http://localhost/?q=admin

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dianacastillo commented

Hi, the problem was solved by the people at the hosting place, they changed the ownership rights of all of the files in the directory from "root" to the apache user. then dropped the database and ran the install again.

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dianacastillo commented

this is the command he ran:
chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/the path to the files

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salah1
Location VA, U.S
commented
Status: Active » Closed (fixed)

Glad it worked out for you.
closing this