By kyme on

Hello,

I'm a newbie. I attempt installing Drupal6x with my wamp server localhost.
When the process of installation and after creating a database in Mysql.
An error occur during the process of installation, above from the installation procedure there
is an error
Deprecated: Function ereg() is deprecated in C:\wamp\www\drupal-6.13\includes\file.inc on line 895

What does that mean? This is my first time attempt installing Drupal.
Please teach me and help me discover..Thanks advance!

-Samae

⋅ Categories: Drupal 6.x

Comments

lodhi’s picture

lodhi commented

go to wamp click on php->version->get more

version 5.3 is not supported

download 5.2.9.2 something like that

lodhi’s picture

lodhi commented

Hi,
I am using Wampserver 2.0i with Drupal 6.13
When i try to modify the settings.php permissions for write option. I had problem that it shows that it is writeable but at local host it shows the Requirements problem of settings.php for write access. I searched over internet but did not find any solution. May be due to 6.13 or wampserver issues

But i solve my problem by deleting default folder (before deleting i noted down the contents) and then creating new file of settings.php and default.settings.php file

May be it will be helpful for someone (or for me in future again )

Regards
ateeq

kreliz’s picture

kreliz commented

Lodhi, many thanks. That put an end to 2 hours of searching. Figured it was, in my case, windows 7 fiddling with the permissions but couldn't find a solution. This worked like a charm. So me too advises to everyone with this problem; simply copy/paste the contents of settins.php and default.settings.php into new ones created by yourself and your permissions are fixed.

lcastillo’s picture

lcastillo commented

I am trying your solution of copying and pasting (also displayed in an online video tutorial) but I cant get it work. I copy the default.settings.php paste it and then I rename that file as settings.php

Once I refresh the page it still gives me the message:

"The Drupal installer requires that you create a settings file as part of the installation process.
Copy the ./sites/default/default.settings.php file to ./sites/default/settings.php.

Change file permissions so that it is writable by the web server. If you are unsure how to grant file permissions, please consult the on-line handbook.
More details about installing Drupal are available in INSTALL.txt."

PLEASE HELP ANY IDEAS??!!

dccrane’s picture

dccrane commented

Was the PHP version all that you changed? I get an error msg in PHPAdmin that there is a mismatch between my PHP and MySQL versions. But deprecating both didn't solve the problem. I'm looking for an older release of WampServer so I can start over.

Enzman’s picture

Enzman commented

Documentation update:

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Drupal 6 Caution
Drupal 6 and PHP 5.3 will not work. If you must run an older version of PHP, please download an appropriate older version of Wampserver. You can find older versions of WAMP5 and WAMPSERVER2 on this page http://sourceforge.net/projects/wampserver/files/ . Just click on WAMP5 or WAMPSERVER2 for the complete file listings.

For example, Wampserver2.0h is running PHP 5.2.9-2 on a Windows Vista machine and Drupal 6 works fine.
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Source = http://drupal.org/node/263