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By pat999 on
I've been trying to install Drupal 6.4 on my site hosted by Tiger Technologies. After a number of false starts, I got past all my SQL errors by following the advice on this forum about cleaning up cookies, etc.
Now, I get further, but I get to a point where the whole process seems to end. My screen says "Installing Drupal" under that, there is a horizontal bar with diagonal stripes that appear to be moving. Below that, it says "Initializing." The pointer on the left is at Install Site. I've tried this with both Firefox 3 and IE 6.
I'm not a php expert, and was really hoping to get the quick, easy installation the videos I found showed.
My install screen from the latest attempt hasn't changed in 20 minutes.
If it is of any help, this is what Tiger Tech showed me after I set up the database:
The connection settings for this MySQL database are:
Database name: xxxxxxxxxxx
MySQL username: xxxxxxxxxxx
Hostname or server: localhost
MySQL version: 5.0.32
Can anyone help?
Comments
Try editing $db_url
Are you getting this at the point that you configure the database? If so, try editing the $db_url = string in the settings.ini file, which is located in the sites/default folder for your Drupal installation.
This has plague many Windows installations.
Cheers,
Mitch
It happens after I have
It happens after I have entered the database information. I don't see any settings.ini in that folder, just a settings.php. I downloaded it from my site, and looked at $db_url = . There is information in there, but I don't know what it is supposed to look like.
Problem bypassed
Well, I still don't know what was wrong, but it's something on my computer.
I deleted and reuploaded everything, and booted up my laptop to try installing Drupal. It worked like a charm!