By karnac2020 on

I am trying to follow the chapters in "Using Drupal" by installing the given installation profiles in each chapter.
So far I have not had a lot of luck.

Is this explained somewhere in the documentation?

Thanks
mark
karnac2020@gmail.com

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scoutbaker’s picture

scoutbaker commented

There's a documentation page on Installing an installation profile.

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profjk commented

A crucial point is left out in documentation of using installation profiles!

Start regular manual installation of drupal.
Go till you fill in the database info (database name, password, database user information into setting.php)

(As per the documentation, settings.php is a copy of default.settings.php which you have to make)

**** At this point, upload the modules, theme and profile into your partially installed Drupal site. ******

Next, continue with your drupal installation
select the profile name that you have just uploaded (not default).

Complete the installation.

Good luck.

JK

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karnac2020 commented

hi profjk,

Thanks for your email. I followed your instructions exactly (as far as I know) and still can't get the installation to run.
In particular, I get as far as the screen where it asks me which profile to install. When I click on the one I want,
I get a message that says something to the effect of "module install_profiles_api" cannot be loaded or found.

Does Drupal 6.12 not come with all the necessary pieces to run installation profiles? This suggests that I need to install an
additional module. Maybe I have permissions wrong or something, as I cannot imagine that different profiles cannot be installed
without extra module support.

Do I need to add an extra settings.php file with the new database information in it? Where would this go? I am at a loss.

Thanks in advance.

Mark

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profjk commented

Hello Mark,
Please try to install a different profile. Let's see if it works.
JK

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karnac2020 commented

Thanks again for your responses.

I tired using a different installation profile from the "Using Drupal" book, but I end up with the same problem.
I can get to the screen where it allows me to pick a profile to be installed, but when I click it I get the message:
Requirements problem
The following error must be resolved before you can continue the installation process:
The install_profile_api module is required but was not found. Please move it into the modules subdirectory.
Please check the error messages and try again.

If I download that module and copy it to the modules directory in my drupal installation, when I now enter the URL localhost/drupal/install.php, i get the choice of profiles to install again, and when I click continue or install, i get a whole page full of fatal warnings.

So it seems like this happens for more than one of the installation profiles.

There must be something I am missing.

Any ideas?

Thanks, Mark

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vince@lacknergroup.com commented

I'm also following the chapters in "Using Drupal".

I've run into a wall when trying the following procedure (after initial clean installation of Drupal 6.12 with database MySite_01):

1) Copied the various "Using Drupal" profile folders into my /htdocs/drupal/profiles/ folder.

2) In my browser, I entered http://localhost:8888/MAMP (Mac), select phpMyAdmin, and create MySite_03

3) Attempted to edit /htdocs/drupal/sites/default/settings.php, by changing the $db_url to point to "MySite_03". When I tried to save the changes, I get the message "You do not have appropriate access privileges". I spent several hours on this issue, and even called AppleCare to see if there was a system-wide permissions issue. We concluded that there was not. SOLUTION (five minutes ago): I copied the settings.php file to my Mac desktop, made the changes there, then copied the file back to the original /default/ folder (had to enter my Mac password to complete the overwrite). I don't know why this overwrite worked when the editing in place did not. Go figure.

4) In my browser, I entered http://localhost:8888/drupal/install.php. Was prompted to choose a Profile (which I was not during the original Drupal install, because I had no profiles other than the Default one). PROBLEM: When I click on Save and Continue, I get a completely white screen, with the following URL line at the top: "http://localhost:8888/drupal/install.php?profile=ch03_Jobs".

Anyone have any thoughts on how to resolve this issue?

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vince@lacknergroup.com commented

I bumped the memory allocation from 16M to 128M, and the problem disappeared (might have worked with a smaller increment to the memory).

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profjk commented

The book "using Drupal" has a website as well as a forum.

Would anybody like to take an intiative and post it on their forum, for the benefit of everybody using Drupal and also the book "Using Drupal".

I have just flipped through it in a bookshop; it looks pretty user friendly.

I am happy to learn that the issue is solved.