I've installed 5.20 in a sub-directory of my public_html (wrong already? I'm hoping I can create drupal pages within this sub-directory and leave the rest of my site as is, for now) and I seem to have succeeded in creating the mysql database. (Which is further than I got with 6.14, so musn't grumble.) Now I've got to this page: http://www.ballooncalculus.org/drpl/drupal-5.20/index.php, which invites me to 'create the first account'. The link appears to have an href of http://www.ballooncalculus.org/drpl/drupal-5.20/?q=user/register, but clicking on this or any of the other links on the page takes me only to 'Directory Listing For /drpl/drupal-5.20/ - Up To /drpl'. The list doesn't include 'user/'. Should it? Or what else is going wrong, here? Extremely grateful for any ideas.
Tom
By tom@ballooncalculus on
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Do not use Drupal 5
The first thing I recommend is not using any version of Drupal 5. eventually it will be going off line and the support is starting to reduce. It is best to do so now before you get your site up and running.
But if you choose not too, I would start from scratch. Get 2 new clean default.settings.php and settings.php files. These 2 files are basically configuration files for the setup of the site and other things. I have had to start from scratch a couple of times. I learned that on trial and error. You should not have to recreate the database because it is seperate from everything else.
BUT I HIGHLY RECOMMEND GOING TO DRUPAL 6.X BACAUSE YOU ARE JUST GETTING ESTABLISHED.