By thagig on

Soo I unpacked drupal and then moved it to /var/www/htdocs/

Then i made a mysql database for drupal and database user,

the install tutorial i was using said to parse for the file database.mysql

and it was there.The next step told me to edit the conf.php file located in the

includes directory but it wasn't in there ?

Does anyone have any idea where it might be or if i can generate my own?

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nevets commented

Look in sites/default for settings.php (new name and place for waht was conf.php)

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thagig commented

I figured that out already , but i'm still not seeing anything?

Any suggestions?

Like common problem areas to check.

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nevets commented

What actions are you doing that take you to "not seeing anything"?

The only two variable you need to change in settings.php
are $db_url and $base_url. $base_url should reflect the URL you are typing in the browser to get to the site so if you use www.example.com, $base_url should be http://www.example.com. If you use localhost/example, the $base_url should be http://localhost/example. The one example that is different is if you are typing example.com in the browser, then you will most likely want http://www.example.com for $base_url.

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thagig commented

uh my url is htttp:\\entrants.ath.cx:4

should i leave off the port number?

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thagig commented

Can someone really work with me through this drupal install,

Its on a computer running slackware 10

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nevets commented

Try this in place of the line with $base_url = ...
with

$base_url = $_SERVER['PROTOCOL'] . '://' .$_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'];
if ($_SERVER['SERVER_PORT'] != 80 and $_SERVER['SERVER_PORT'] != 443) {
  $base_url .= ":" .$_SERVER['SERVER_PORT'];
  }
if ($dir = trim(dirname($_SERVER['PHP_SELF']), '\,/')) {
  $base_url .= "/$dir";
  }

(from http://drupal.org/node/6554)

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thagig commented

is that what you have in your configuration file?

If so , why?

I'm gonna try though

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thagig commented

I tried the proposed solution above and it didnt work.