Drupal installation and site creation.

Posted by sam.paranjape on March 10, 2010 at 9:35pm

I now have installed drupal 6.14 using fantastico (that tool comes with my hosting service)
and also have wamp server with MySQL 5.1.33 and PHP 5.2.9-2.

Question1. Now When i open http:///drupal (by actually putting my domain name there), I get to see some file stucture.
like.. parent directory->drupal->sites->settings.php..
Is that correct? does it say my drupal installation is correct?

Q2. Why Settings.php file seems empty when i click on it? (but, size is 9k)

Q3. Where can i get to see the primary links/sec. links, page/story things and where can I start creating my new site/

Please Please help me I have got confused due to all this mess!!!! and I am new to Drupal but want to use it ASAP.

Thank you.

Comments

First and most importantly,

Posted by tdimg on March 10, 2010 at 11:07pm

First and most importantly, never ever use Fantastico to install software! Never! As you can clearly see on the frontpage of Drupal.org, Drupal 6.14 is not the most recent and thus not the most secure version, that would be Drupal 6.14.

Follow the install instructions found here in the documentation and you'll be fine - if not better leave it at that and turn to something simpler, like Wordpress, or get professional help.

Also, I don't get why you have a wamp server? You really are using a windows host with apache and mysql?

And yeah, you shouldn't see a file structure, and Drupal should be in your root, no extra directory for that either, something is really going awfully wrong there.

Also, yes if opened in a web browser settings.php should look empty as all it does is store some settings in your php file. This should not be displayed, otherwise everybody would see your database login credentials, and we don't want that, do we?

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Posted by pbarnett on March 11, 2010 at 12:15am

Could this be a missing .htaccess file?

Pete.
http://adaptive.co.uk

Please send code

Posted by pacesol on March 11, 2010 at 8:03am

can you please send me code for .htaccess file

please don't. follow my

Posted by tdimg on March 11, 2010 at 9:57am

please don't. follow my suggestion and download Drupal from here and upload it properly, and there's the htaccess file included. otherwise you get into a whole lot of problems with an insecure Drupal installation down the line.

re:

Posted by sam.paranjape on March 12, 2010 at 2:23am

No its not missing. i can see that file .htaccess

well, it could be that the

Posted by tdimg on March 12, 2010 at 7:38am

well, it could be that the fantastico script provides it's own htaccess file, different from the one that Drupal uses.

ok... so in that case, can I

Posted by sam.paranjape on March 12, 2010 at 9:16pm

ok... so in that case, can I re-install? i mean can I overwrite upon the previously installed drupal version by fantastico?
And should I install drupal 6.16? I did it for 6.14 by fantastico.

And I have Wamp server 2.0h which gives me PHP 5.2.9-2 and MySQL 5.1.33.

Please help.

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Posted by pbarnett on March 12, 2010 at 9:29pm

I'd advise deleting the current version and installing Drupal 6.16

Pete.
http://adaptive.co.uk

thanks pete..

Posted by sam.paranjape on March 14, 2010 at 6:03pm

thanks pete..

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Posted by tdimg on March 12, 2010 at 9:37pm

delete everything, empty the database and then follow the installation instructions found right here in the documentation. And of course should you use Drupal 6.16, didn't I already say this? Anything else would be a major security risk! Drupal 5, 6, and soon 7 are the major versions, while everything behind the dot (.) indicates security updates, meaning if you're running Drupal 6.14 you've missed two security updates! and that's the way with those fantastico scripts.

again, why do you have a Windows server with Apache? this is just awkward...