Help with installation!

By organicplaid on 19 Nov 2007 at 20:37 UTC

I'm trying to install Drupal 5.3. I'm using Dreamhost. I have a mysql database set up through them. I downloaded drupal and ftp it to my dreamhost server.
If i go to my site through a browser it says the page doesn't redirect correctly. Am i missing a step?

I then tried going into the setting.php file and inputting my mysql info into the '$db_url = ' syntax...but I get a mysql error:

Unable to connect to database server

If you still have to install Drupal, proceed to the installation page.

If you have already finished installed Drupal, this either means that the username and password information in your settings.php file is incorrect or that we can't connect to the MySQL database server. This could mean your hosting provider's database server is down.

what am i doing wrong?

Comments

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vm commented 19 November 2007 at 20:41

Drupal has an auto installer there is no need to manually add anything to settins.php.

insure all files from drupal are uploaded and not corrupted in anyway

you can also try running install.php directly by going to yoursite.com/install.php

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mdixoncm commented 19 November 2007 at 21:40

I seem to remember dreamhost use seperate DB machines - so your database probably won't be on the localhost, which is the default setting in the Drupal installer ... if you check your hosting details you should find the name of your DB server (with the uname and password) - stick this into the installer (in the advanced section) and you should be rockin ...

Apologies if you have already done this of course :)

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