Ran settings.php but no default website

index.php is included with your Drupal download. Under normal circumstances you do not edit it either. You edit settings.php with notepad and then you browse to yoursite.com. If your webserver does not have index.php as an allowed doctype, then you need to set that through your webserver configuration.

You can also try yoursite.com/index.php

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Install.txt Step 5:
[snip]

You can now launch your browser and point it to your Drupal site.
Create an account and login. The first account will automatically become the main administrator account with total control.

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Let me preface this by saying that I'm really not trying to pick on you, as this issue comes up all the time, but it'd really help if you could identify where the text was unclear:

The instructions did not state this specifically.

From INSTALL.txt:

   Set $base_url to match the address to your Drupal site:

     $base_url = "http://www.example.com";

From settings.php:

/**
 * Base URL:
 *
 * The URL of your website's main page. 
 */

Also, the instructions did not state that an index.php would be created thus I was lost intitially after running the settings.php.

An index.php is *not* created. It's automatically included in the download. Therefore, it would be erroneous for this to be in the documentation. This sounds to me like you're perhaps used to another script which auto-generates files for you after filling out configuration information? Otherwise, where did you get the impression that settings.php should be executed and that it would create an index.php?

No indication of what/where to continue to access the admin or setting pages.

See step 5 in INSTALL.txt:

   You can now launch your browser and point it to your Drupal site.

   Create an account and login. The first account will automatically
   become the main administrator account with total control.

After loading your browser, there is also an initial blurb on the front page that gives further information on "what to do next."

This is a bit of a "hot button" issue right now, so any input would be appreciated so we can get this cleared up for 4.7. What wording was confusing, and how could it be better phrased so you would understand what it was referring to?

Seems to me bootstrap.inc can't open (or find) settings.php and a lot of other files as well.

Warning: main(sites/default/settings.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in C:\hshome\banffbea\technobrains.com\includes\bootstrap.inc on line 642

In what directory (entire path) is settings.php located? And where does module.inc reside?

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