By jefbak2 on

I am installing drupal on a college server (LAMP) and I am having problems getting 5.7 to install.

First of all I have never tried to install Drupal outside of the root and in this setup it is at www.example.edu/sandbox/dupalcms
Is that going to be cool for the install script or what do I need to change?

Second the sever has to have register globals set to on for some older php apps so I need to figure out how to get a custom php.ini file to load so that it is off for the durpal install. I placed a copy of the servers php.ini with globals changed to OFF in the drupal directory but it did not help.

I guess I need to tell the server Admin what I need him to do/provide so I can get this install underway.
What possible issues could I be facing?

I have not run into install problems before like this so any help would be great.

Thanks.

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David_S-1’s picture

David_S-1 commented

In order to start the installation script I had to modify "/sites/default/settings.php" . Around line 115 I uncommented the line, then changed the base URL to the complete path to my Drupal installation: "http://www.mysite.com/drupal-5".

That seemed to work, however now I'm getting the "register_globals is enabled" message.

I tried the custom php.ini file as well as adding the line "php_flag register_globals 0" into the .htaaccess file. Neither worked for me.

HTH

jefbak2’s picture

jefbak2 commented

I need the hierarchy of apache php interaction's.
What supersedes what?

What do I need to tell my system admin to change so that I can use a custom php.ini and get around the globals problem?

I want to make Drupal look good here so help me drupalords please!

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jefbak2 commented

* When php run as Apache Module (mod_php)
* When php run as CGI
* When cgi?d php is run with wrapper (for FastCGI)

Any hint in phpinfo?