By xseiglan on

One of your competitor (no name) is out of the box in 3 minutes.
I 've spent 3 hours trying to understand an error message : "register_globals is enabled" installing the 6 version. I ma loosing my nerves. No way. Your competitor (no name) cost the same price than you.
Forgive me if I am rude, but I quit!

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mkogel’s picture

mkogel commented

I am a newbie and going nuts ... I would like something really "out of box".

I am not a developer so I need idiots guide sometimes

zilla’s picture

zilla commented

not sure why you're pointing a finger at drupal...have you contacted your host? this is a core server file and configuration issue, drupal just *looks* for it...

no need to crap all over drupal since this has nothing to do with your install - call your hosting provider, tell them you want to change register globals...

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steve-psngs commented

I suppose they wished for a simple easy to install 1 click solution & found drupal to be a bit overwhelming.

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silverwing commented

what they would have said if they tried installing Drupal before it had the installer!

~silverwing - glad those days are done with...

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steve-psngs commented

I'm lucky, thank heavens for the installer & the logical walk through guide.
Even better, reading the step by step detailed installation guides.
Especially the Cookbook : http://drupal.org/handbook/customization/tutorials/beginners-cookbook
& of course BeforeYouStart : http://drupal.org/getting-started/before
I'm always suprised when someone fails to read these things.
If I'm going to put something on my server, I like to know what it's doing & how it functions.

I remember when I first started looking at CMS, & went looking to see what would be best for me.
OpenSourceCMS was a treat (still is) for exploring possibilities & it's through them I found drupal.
1st impression was that it was special, but then I tried it & found it too complex & went & looked at joomla & especially very simple CMS stuff
Tried them all (installing them & adding content) but whilst I thought I'd be happy with an easier less complex solution I was frustrated because they really felt too limited.
So I ended up returning to drupal & decided to try to learn a bit.

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silverwing commented

I'm at opensourcecms.com a lot - or was until the forums dried up after they put in Phorum. I'm actually a moderator there, too.

I like to play with CMS' as a hobby and I tend to have dozens installed on my local server set-up. But Drupal just lets you go that one extra step that others can't.

As long as you're willing to read the directions and ask questions.

~silverwing

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steve-psngs’s picture

steve-psngs commented

I still visit Opensourcecms.com at least once a week.
A really good place to keep abrest of CMS (opensource of course) development.
One thing that still makes me laugh is whenyou log in to a demo & see a script kiddy trying to hack the demo.
I remember one guy deleting everything & leaving hacker style messages all over the place.
Quite funny & rather absurd.

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silverwing commented

did you even search here for "register_global is enabled"?

A few minutes searching or asking questions can generally save a person a lot of time and aggravation.

~silverwing

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Phillip Mc commented

very classy, xseiglan.

I assume you're talking about wordpress. which is a great tool, but, after you get up and running and would like to do some more sophisticated things with your site, I wager you'll come back to Drupal. It is true that it's not quite a turnkey solution, but, with a little bit of patience and a little bit of diplomacy on the forum, you will be firing on all cylinders.

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jscoble commented

xseiglan,

If you find that that product fits your skill set/needs better then go for it. Some of us need more than that and have no problems getting Drupal running out of the box.

Many of us could probably get a blog running in Drupal in about that time too.

As for the "register_globals is enabled", as pointed out in a previous comment, that is either an issue with your hosting company or the way you configure PHP on your box. If it's your host, just shoot them an email and they should be able to address it for you. If they can't, find a better hosting company.

Drupal requires register_globals to be disabled for a reason, it presents a security issue. For PHP6, register_globals has been both deprecated and removed. PHP also highly discourages you from using the feature.

If you don't care about security...

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zilla commented

..or is the even hotter and super new and cool google pages (now with "pick some of your own colors" feature!)?

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techguy10 commented

haha, yeah that google pages app is really something, its going to turn the web upside down as we know it, lol, google is good at one thing: monetizing the internet and providing better search results that anyone else which is a pretty low bar, I don't understand why they're even bothering with the project when there is clearly no effort behind it.

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Biggynuff commented

I'm really surprised at the replies to the original post

Because I can't believe you bothered to take the time to answer this crap!

I had exactly the same problem (and others), and it took me . . . Ooh . . . about 60 seconds to find the answer and get the site running by looking thru the forums and my old friend Google

It was by doing this that i discovered that the problem was with my server, and nothing to do with Drupal at all

Hey ho, a couple of lines in php.ini and we were good to go!

Mind you . . . I suppose if the original poster does use another cms it could save a few pointless questions for the developers later

Biggy

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ganes commented

many open-source minded persons know, there are no such "simple start" or "one click problem solving". No matter what OS CMS you are working with.

I think it is better to delete this thread ..LOL