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By sam castello on
Hey all,
i am still a little new at this and i am having some trouble installing Drupal. I searched the forums and web and found similar problems to mine, but nothing that seems to help me. So here it is:
Install of Drupal 6.2 is getting hung up on Database Configuration page.
If i post the wrong info (password, username, host, etc) it will deliver the error message i might expect.
HOWEVER, if i post the right information, it just comes up again to the same page asking for all the info i posted.
I am trying to install v6.2
Using MySql v 5.022
host server is webhost4life.com on IIs
i have a little experience installing and modding a phpbb site, so i am up for the challenge, but this just has be baffled and really feeling like a newbie.
please let me know what i am doing wrong - thanks.
Comments
This sounds like a
This sounds like a permission problem - Drupal not being able to write the database info to the sites/default/settings.php file. Have a look at this post: http://drupal.org/getting-started/5/install/run-script#comment-764647.
got it!
thanks for the link marcvangend!
i was getting the Database User permissions and Site User permissions mixed up. I had to add the user permissions to the folder, /sites/default but once i did, it worked.
again, many thanks, now i can get to the fun part!
-sam
Great. Enjoy your Drupal
Great. Enjoy your Drupal ride!
also wanted to mention i had
also wanted to mention i had this problem in drupal 6.4 and 6.5 in IIS/windows where dont really need to set permissions on default install (just in case gave access to IUSR_machinename).
what worked was manually putting in the database connection string in drupal's settings.php file
thanks, it really was the
thanks, it really was the solution for my problem :) first time I thought it was used to parse params, but tried to put and !!!
Yeh I think the reason this
Yeh I think the reason this happens sometimes maybe cause the default.settings.php should be copied and not renamed to settings.php (maybe drupal makes sure the default file is there for some reason and it bugs out when its not?).
For some reason that happened in a few of my installs as well. i just had both files in that directory and db install then went through.
This was exactly right
Drupal 6.15 on Apache2_2
@armyofda12mnkeys was exactly right, I made a copy of the default.settings.php but renamed default.settings.php to settings.php and had the problem reported. When I renamed copy.default.settings.php to default.settings.php the install continued. Whew- Thanks!
that's so right the problem
that's so right
the problem happened when i : Renamed the file directly
The problem didn't happen : when i used CP to make a new copy of the file while leaving the original one intact
thanks Guys :)