By gmal on

I am a Drupal neophyte and appreciate your patience. I've been trying to install Drupal on a local host by following the directions provided by a video from the "Learn By the Drop" series and what I've gleaned from the forums here.

Unfortunately I can get no further than the Verify Requirements phase. I get the following message: "Copy the ./sites/default/default.settings.php file to ./sites/default/settings.php". After I do this and refresh the screen it sends me right back to this page. Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks for your help.

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einsteinsboi’s picture

einsteinsboi commented

1. Have you created a database?
2. Have you created a user with all privileges and added that user to your database?
3. In the sites/default folder, do you have two files - default.settings.php and settings.php?

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gmal commented

I have done all three things you have mentioned. I've also removed both Drupal and Wampserver and reinstalled. Thanks for your reply.

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d34dman commented

einsteinsboi ( http://drupal.org/user/435854) said:

3. In the sites/default folder, do you have two files - default.settings.php and settings.php?

and there should be TWO FILES..

I was able to recreate the problem by doing just the renaming of default.settings.php to settings.php.