By Avitohol on

I did a successful installation of Drupal 6.3 (I got the Drupal installation complete screen).
Then I tried to load the newly created site, but it comes again with the begin of installation screen.
I find it weird and am short of ideas right now, so could you please give me some hints?

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Avitohol commented

I forgot to mention, that after the completion of the installation I got the default front page of Drupal, but when I press any of the links it brings me to the new installation window. Trying to reload the site does the same.

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robertdouglass commented

Please tell us:

1. Your hosting situation. Localhost? Shared hosting?
2. The URL with which you access your sits (can replace host name with example.com)
3. The URL in the browser when you finish installation
4. The URL in the browser after you refresh
5. Does the file sites/default/settings.php exist?

- Robert Douglass

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Avitohol commented

1. Localhost
2. www.example.com
3. I have to delete everything and install it again to reproduce the path. I'll do it tomorrow.
4. www.example.com/install.php?profile=default
5. Yes, I downloaded the default.settings.php, renamed it and uploaded it as settings.php

All the required permissions were given as described.
This is a kind of test site, so before there was Drupal 5.2, which I deleted completely, also deleted the DB and created a brand new one. Then installed the latest and greatest Drupal.

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bdawg8569 commented

I had a similar problem when i first did a 6.3 install. Right after my installation i made it to the page saying it had installed successfully but that i should change the permissions on the settings.php file back to an un-writable state. After I did so, i went to the administer link and it redirected me back to the install page and acted like i had not installed drupal. So i again changed the settings.php file back to allow drupal write access to it, and it then realized again that drupal was already installed, and gave me a warning. I left the settings file writable till i made it into the administrative menu's, then changed it back again and it was fine. Not sure if that will help you or not, but that's how i got past it.

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Avitohol commented

First at all what is meant by write access - 777, or less?
Also what means not writable - 644, or something else?
I thing it would be easier for everybody if this is written in the documentation, or better in the installation wizard.

Anyway, I changed the default directory permissions to 777 and it recognized it as installed. The problem now is, that when I make it again not writable (644) it tries to install it again.
I read somewhere that 6.x has simplified a lot the installation process. I can't see it so far. The manual creation of settings.php also has nothing to do with smooth and simple installation nowadays.

So what I found experimenting is:
files folder - 777, otherwise the default settings for theme cannot access it.

Unfortunately I can't make default folder not writable - I tried 766, but it's not working (tries to install it again).
Please help with some hints!

Some data for the environment:
MySQL database 5.0.51
PHP 5.2.5
PHP memory limit 16M
PHP register globals Disabled
Unicode library PHP Mbstring Extension
Update notifications Enabled
Web server Apashi Serv

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Avitohol commented

Any hints guys? I'm stuck with this and can't continue.

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aviceda commented

Me too!
Follow instructions, complete installation, change permissions to 644 and back to installation again.....why do these problems seem to be happening throughout this forum?

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Avitohol commented

And why there's no big interest to help us?

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aviceda commented

I'm going to try Joomla

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Avitohol commented

What has to happen in order to get some help?

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ipswitch commented

create an emtpy file called setting.php and ftp it to your sites/default/ directory. That should do it. Fixed it for me anyway.

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dungkal commented

After the successful install, I inadvertently removed the executable permission of 'default' directory, which created the similar problem. I brought back the default (executable) permission and everything went fine again.

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Wolfflow commented

Hi All, first sorry if you did not get an immediately support for your problems with installing.

We are just few people that try to support the 1000 of forums postings and 1000 of issues we receive on Drupal.Org
Please consider that sometime 1 out of 10.000 get lost out of our eyes. :-)

Well just to give you some tipps:

First many unsuccessfull installations depends of simple things that have to be taken a look at.

1. What Browser you use? There are so many updates an plugins that can distort the output.
2. Be always aware of your Browser Cache , before installing something over the Net clear your Browser cache.
3. Be aware that a firewall settings might block data flow from your PC to your Host or backward.
4. As default one's you have uploaded Drupal in a folder of your Host then you need only to have
access data to your Database and that there is one installed from you or from your Host provider automatically.

Please feel free to feedback.

Cheers

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Avitohol commented

Just to inform you, that my problem was gone after the host provider restarted the WEB server.
Doesn't explaine a lot, but at least I proceed.