By airboy808 on

We are trying to install Drupal 6.1 on our Mac XServe. When hitting the install.php for the first time, the Step 1 page takes about 20 seconds to load. At Step 1 we get to choose the set-up we want for Drupal. When clicking the top link of the two choices the browser will hang for a while and then return the white screen of death. We are on apache 2.x and PHP5. Out php memory setting is at 32megs. So it should be enough. The apache error logs show something about includes/file.inc at line 889. So it looks like it hangs when trying to write or access some folder or file.

We have created a settings.php as well as a 'files' folder where settings.php is setting. And to no -avail we unable to get it to work.

Anyone got any ideas?

Thanks in advance

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3B’s picture

3B commented

the same for me under a Red Hat

pls help - thx

p.s all preceending 5.x 4.x and 2.x installed successfully

:-(((

robguy’s picture

robguy commented

Is this a fresh install, or are you upgrading from 5.7 or earlier? I also assume you created a MySQL database before you began install? What kind of file permissions have you given serttings.php? We need a little more information to help you properly.

Your memory settings are fine, and Drupal 5.1 works well with Apache2 and PHP5 (hopefully, you have a better PHP5 build than the standard bland one that ships with Leopard).

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Spaghetticode’s picture

Spaghetticode commented

I just had to do the same set up about two weeks ago but I avoided the Mac web server and its PHP build. Instead I chose the XAMPP for Mac package.

http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp-macosx.html

It's a very simple install and will prompt you to make all the required permission changes. Be sure to change your MySQL password after the install.

Mine is up and running fine now, although I am still having problems with the file upload module...

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Metusela commented

I run into the same problem with Drupal 6.2 even though i use XAMPP (for win XP). First I wanted to run it from my USB-stick. I get this error:
Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 60 seconds exceeded in L:\Server\xampp\htdocs\dlarsson\includes\file.inc on line 889

First I thought my USB-stick was too slow, so I tried to run the same thing from my harddrive. But I still got the same message.

Is there a fix for this? Anyone knows what to do?

Best Regards

David

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Madfatter commented

I am getting the same error when I try to install Drupal locally using xampp on windows xp. Any solution?