Installing Drupal with phpMyadmin

Posted by CollinY2K on June 19, 2006 at 2:17am

I am brand new to this stuff, but would very much like to learn. At this point I am trying to get Drupal up and running.
So far I have
Downloaded Drupal 4.7.2 and uploaded it to my FTP account.

The next thing I believe I need to do is create the database. I have no idea how or what exactly to do here. I have the phpMyAdmin stuff up, but am lost from there. How do I upload drupal from phpMyAdmin? The only instructions I found were talking about Command Lines and I dont see any command lines in phpMyAdmin. So how do I do this?

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Import with phpMyAdmin

Posted by douwef on June 19, 2006 at 2:22am

If you have created the database then you can load the database configuration by Importing the file from the the Drupal/database directory. This file should still be on in your local directory where you uploaded the Drupal installation from.

Um, okay, I was trying to

Posted by CollinY2K on June 19, 2006 at 2:32am

Um, okay, I was trying to upload the .gz file before of the whole drupal thing. So this time I did just database.4.1.mysql. That seemed to work and now I've got all these things in the database. Is the correct?

Which file do I need to edit to link to my site with login/pass etc?

EDIT: nvm, I found it settings.php was just hiding from me.

yes you should be able

Posted by wellsy on June 19, 2006 at 2:34am

to visit your site now at the url where it is installed.

You then need to create the first account.

wellsy

orchidsonline.com.au

wellsy

orchidsonline.com.au

Okay, now I'm a little

Posted by CollinY2K on June 19, 2006 at 3:30am

I currently have this: $db_url = 'mysql://colliny2k:MYPASSWORD@db4.awardspace.com/colliny2k_neo';

Does this look correct? Doesn't seem to be working cause I go to my site url and nothing appears.

This is how I put the above together:
I login to phpmyadmin with: colliny2k
my password for phpmyadmin: MYPASSWORD
at the phpmyadmin site it says at the top: MySQL 4.1.18-log running on db4.awardspace.com as colliny2k_neo@209.85.5.34
so I'm assuming the localhost is db4.awardspace.com.,.right?
database name: colliny2k_neo

Could work

Posted by dman on June 19, 2006 at 5:09am

That's an assumption, a good one, but we can never be 100% depending on your hosting environment. The phpmyadmin gives a good clue, so it should be good.

Drupal 4.7 is pretty good at letting you know just what the problems are - it should be giving you useful error messages if it's not connecting.

You say "nothing" appears. Can you be more specific? Blank screen, Frozen browser, timeout? View source, is PHP even running in that directory?
Are you sure of your site URL and drupal (index.php) installation location?

And of course, look harder at all the instructions - all is answered there better than drip-feeding the process through the forum again.

.dan.

http://www.coders.co.nz/

_{.dan. is the New Zealand Drupal Developer working on Government Web Standards}

well ya can see what I see

Posted by CollinY2K on June 19, 2006 at 6:02am

I found my answer, thanks everyone for helping. It had to do with restrictions of my host. I simply had to edit out a few lines in the htaccess file.

For future reference

Posted by dman on June 19, 2006 at 6:27am

... would you care to share for those that come after you?
I'm guessing it was a "Directive Not Allowed Here" (since you say restrictions on your host), and that evidence could have been found in your apache error logs.

What did you end up changing? ... just for the knowlege base.

.dan.
http://www.coders.co.nz/

_{.dan. is the New Zealand Drupal Developer working on Government Web Standards}