By annicole72 on

Hi. I'm new here. I downloaded and uploaded drupal 6 to in my server. I created a database. I typed in my database name, password, or host in the settings.php file I believe. I also changed the permissions to 777. Now, what?

How does the installation work? I am still pretty new with MySQL and learning along the way. Can you please help me what to do next? I'm a little confused still.

In case you want to know also, I created a separate folder for drupal in my root directory, as I have wordpress installed through fantastico in the root directory.

When I clicked the settings or install.php files, it does not show up on the browser. It's just a blank page.

Thanks.

Anne

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flabat commented

http://drupal.org/getting-started/6/install

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dhaven commented

Hi, you need to direct your browser to the drupal folder e.g yourdomainname.com/drupal

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annicole72 commented

I went to the link that you gave me. When I typed http://theleomanual.com/drupal/install.php, it took me to my word press account.

What to do?

Anna

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yelvington commented

Check the FAQ, which should note that blank pages often result from PHP errors (which you may have made when you edited the settings.php file) or out-of-memory conditions. Either way, your Web server's error log should be informative.

I don't know why you edited the settings file, as the installation instructions for Drupal 6 do not tell you to do that, and you don't need to do it. Drupal will ask for your information and modify the file, if the webserver has permission to do so, when you first access the site's URL with your web browser.

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annicole72 commented

Hi,

Can you tell me if any of the files requires me to enter my database info? Like in the install.php, my db password is in there.

For the settings.php, should I just delete it and create a new one?

When I point my browser to http://theleomanual.com/drupal, I got a 404 error.

Also, the files that I uploaded did not have a .htaccess file included. I just found it through one of the threads here and used that to create one.

Should I keep the settings.php file in the same folder inside the default folder?

Oh, sorry I entered my database info inside the INSTALL.mysql.txt

Anna

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dhaven commented

Sounds like you should delete everything and start again. There should be a video tutorial on here or try http://www.lullabot.com/ for basic/simple instructions on installing.

The htaccess file is usually hidden if you use something like cpanel you can choose to show hidden files.

is the link http://theleomanual.com/drupal a drupal site?

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annicole72 commented

Hi, that is my drupal folder. I have word press installed in my public_html.
Fantastico installed word press for me. I don't have that option with drupal on my server. I use lunar pages.

So, just delete everything and re-upload the files all over?

I do have a .htaccess file in my cpanel public_html. There are some settings for word press on there too. Should I use the same .htaccess file for drupal?

Thanks. I'm really very new at this and need guidance. I already saw the video. I do not have/use a dos prompt to change write permission.

This is how my cpanel looks like:

http://www.theleomanual.com/cpanel.jpg

My Drupal Folder:

http://www.theleomanual.com/drupalfolder.jpg

This one is my htaccess in my cpanel:

http://www.theleomanual.com/htaccess.jpg

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annicole72 commented

I changed the permissions to 755 according to my hosting server and the installation worked. I'm with Lunar Pages.

Thanks for your replies.