By andrew_hoffi on

I'm in the process of doing my first Drupal install well ok officical install and I was going to use some space on my fasthosts reseller account. I've got Apache space setup with a MySQL db, however when i come to run the installation script i get a few problems. My first notion was I have an incorrect version of PHP installed?? Could anyone provide any suggestions?

Notice: Trying to get property of non-object in /home/fhlinux159/a/aberdareonline.org.uk/user/htdocs/includes/form.inc on line 325

Notice: Undefined variable: edit in /home/fhlinux159/a/aberdareonline.org.uk/user/htdocs/includes/form.inc on line 763

Notice: Undefined variable: redirect in /home/fhlinux159/a/aberdareonline.org.uk/user/htdocs/includes/form.inc on line 268

Notice: Undefined variable: base in /home/fhlinux159/a/aberdareonline.org.uk/user/htdocs/includes/form.inc on line 465

Notice: Undefined index: #value in /home/fhlinux159/a/aberdareonline.org.uk/user/htdocs/includes/form.inc on line 1045

Notice: Undefined index: #value in /home/fhlinux159/a/aberdareonline.org.uk/user/htdocs/includes/form.inc on line 1045

Notice: Undefined variable: no_module_preprocess in /home/fhlinux159/a/aberdareonline.org.uk/user/htdocs/includes/common.inc on line 1472

Notice: Undefined variable: no_theme_preprocess in /home/fhlinux159/a/aberdareonline.org.uk/user/htdocs/includes/common.inc on line 1493

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vm commented

it may help to know:

version of Apache
version of MySQL
version of PHP

do they fall within the Drupal requirements ? = drupal.org/requirements

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andrew_hoffi commented

I did check, but I'm still confused as to why it doesnt function or why these variables are missing. I've managed to get version 4.7.10 to work, but I'd like to use some of the extended features of 5.X

If anyone knows the answer to my problems, Drupal problems that is... Please let me know.

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vm commented

it may help to know:

version of Apache
version of MySQL
version of PHP

with that someone can try and replicate your environment if necessary and work to understand what may be happening. If you could please include this information in your next post it mat produce a more specific answer.

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andrew_hoffi commented

Of course I'm sorry... The specification is

Apache: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
PHP: 5.0
MySQL: 4.1.11

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andrew_hoffi commented

I managed to find a solution to this problem. It was a little around the houses though.

I removed the 5.5 install and then installed 4.7.10, applied the 5.5 update and its working fine. Seemed to be a problem connecting to the database directly using 5.5 on my setup.

Cheers for your help guys.

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Andrew
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Bluesmoke commented

I've had the same problem and error message installing Drupal 5.7 on Fasthosts Linux. Install (5.2)seemed to work OK on my Fasthosts Windows account but having problems with this install on Linux. Could I ask how you got Drupal working using 4.7? were there any other issues? (changing file permissions etc?)
Thanks in advance for any help

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webnation commented

I've just had the same problem and contacted Fasthosts support who gave me the following instructions which worked. (Although I unpacked the tarball and then ftp'd the files rather than use an SSH client):

Dear Sir/Madam,

Please be aware that if you would like to install Drupal you must have:

- Linux Hosting
- A MySQL database

1 - Upload the drupal.tar.gz file using FTP to our servers under the htdocs directory

2 - Use an SSH client (Putty or equivalent) and change to the directory where the tar.gz file has been uploaded

3 - You should then be able to use the tar xzvf (filename goes here) command and the server will unzip the files

* You will have to modify the .htaccess file in Notepad or Wordpad, from what I found, these functions should be commented out with a #:

Order allow,deny : : Options -Indexes : Options +FollowSymLinks : DirectoryIndex index.php : Enable expirations.
ExpiresActive On : ExpiresDefault A1209600 : ExpiresByType text/html A1

4 - Check on your FTP webspace and then goto the URL to install Drupal e.g. http://www.yourdomainname.co.uk/drupal-6.2/install.php

5 - Select Install English

6 - It will then ask you for your database details, these are available from your control panel

7 - Click on the advanced options and enter the database server IP (located on your CP), this should not be set to localhost as our database servers are separate from our hosting servers.

8 - The port number to connect over is 3306

9 - Any other options leave blank

10 - Drupal will give a strange error about PHP but I wouldnt worry and just got through the rest of the settings and finish installation.

Please bare in mind this is a 3rd party piece of software we dont support the use of it on our servers.

Kind Regards

Does anybody know if the commenting out on the htaccess files will cause problems?

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webnation commented

Sorry, forgot to mention I was installing 5.7 and the instructions worked for that