By denl on

I am hoping someone will help me please. I am totally new at this, but do want to learn. I have installed apache2triad ok. I downloaded drupal 6.3 to htdocs and extracted it there. I renamed drupal 6.3 to drupal. I went to sites, default, default settings (this did not have .php after it). I copied this file and pasted it in the same place. I renamed the copied file to settings.php I went to http://localhost/drupal to install drupal and I keep getting the message that I need to copy default.settings.php and to rename the copied file to settings.php which I have already done.

I have searched the forums and there is talk about setting permissions. If this is the problem that I am experiencing could someone please give me a step by step procedure to do this on Windows Vista. I have been trying to follow what has been written about permissions, but everything I have tied does not make any difference. If this is not the problem, what else can I do?
Thank you
Denis

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sizzlingshrimp’s picture

sizzlingshrimp commented

Whoa, looks like you are making this more complicated than necessary. Can you give more information, like what is "apache2triad"? An AMP? What are you trying to achieve, just learning to install Drupal?

As for the permission problems, if you're using Windows, it's no wonder you don't understand what you're doing. Permissions are big part of authentication in OS administration, usually seen in Unix-like systems. You should read this Linux Files and File Permission. How did you make changes to those permissions?

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Byrner commented

Hi @,
I have downloaded and installed apache2triad, I also have downloaded drupal 6.4 and have extracted to my htdocs folder. I am currently trying to create the database using the command c:\ mysqladmin -u root -p create drupal but I keep getting the error message: 'c:\' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.

I am a total n00bie and any help would be gratefully received.

Cheers
Byrner

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denl commented

I am not the best person to be giving advice as I know next to nothing about setting up a website. So for what it is worth, I have installed apache2triad.

I have downloaded drupal 6.4 and extracted it to htdocs folder. You then get a file called drupal 6.4. I renamed it to drupal. If you double click on drupal, sites, default. Copy the file default.settings.php and paste it in the same place and rename it settings.php
If you can't see .php after the file you can change the folder options to show extensions. But I found if you just copy the default.settings.php or default.settings which ever is showing and just paste it as is.

Once that is done I think you will be able to install drupal. Make sure that apache monitor is on, see my previous post... and open your browser and go to http://localhost/drupal and install drupal.

I think that is what I have done so far.

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denl commented

Thanks for your reply. Yes I am completely new to anything to do with building websites and yes I am trying to learn to install Drupal. I have managed to do that now. Now I need to learn how do develop a good website. Thanks for the file permission info, I will read this and see what I can learn. Thanks again

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decibel.places commented

I have installed xampp and wampserver (I uninstalled wamp and run xampplite) on Vista Home Premium and run Drupal sites locally

Check out the documentation: http://drupal.org/node/263

xampp comes with phpmyadmin for sql management...

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johnvsc commented

WAMP works great on Vista, I have been running it for close to a year with no problems at all. just use the default configurations and really you should be fine

when you install it you will see a www folder in the wamp folder... that is the one that the browser will use. also, if you install FireFox before hand, the wamp install with config that to use as the default browser (use that with the Firefox plugin "firebug" and you will have an easier time creating themes, too )

To access your local host, php admin etc, the WAMP installer has a little tray application, click on the icon and choose the top link that says "localhost or "phpAdmin", respectfully

then, to set up a drupal install,

  1. download the WAMP from http://www.wampserver.com/en/ and install it, just select default for everything
  2. navigate to the php admin, create a blank database (i use a name like 64001 pr 64001themes where the "64" is the drupal version, and "001" is the first in a series of installations (you will have more than one) and "themes" is the part of drupal you are working on or the name of a site that this install is for
  3. in php admin, set up a generic user in permissions. I use the username "drupal" with the password "drupal" on all my local sites so i don't have to remember pointless u/p combinations
  4. then take the latest drupal site/core install, put it in the www folder. i would change the name to something to the database name "d6400themes", just like the example above, to follow suit
  5. navigate to that folder using the browser
  6. and you should be on your way
  7. oh, and if you get an error because your site didn't send an email, everyone get it.. unless you have an email server on your local set up.
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jcowan commented

on vista simply leave off the .php windows will automatically add the file extension. I was cussing this for hours and it is just that simple