Posted by Astha_1 on March 13, 2010 at 12:35pm
HI,
I installed drupal on Windows m/c on wamp server. The installation went well, but at the end got warning:
mail() [function.nail]: Failed to connect to mail server at "localhost" port 25, verify your "SMTP" and "smtp_port" setting in "php.ini file" or use ini_set() in c:\www\Drupalsite\includes\mail.inc on line 193.
How do i get rid of this warning.
I'm new to Drupal. Wat's d next step after the installation?
Thanks,
Comments
afaik you can ignore this
afaik you can ignore this error and should be able to proceed without any problems. The reason for the error is that you don't have a mail server setup, but that shouldn't be a problem.
That depends, adding and enabling modules and/or themes, start adding content or organise your taxonomy.
Personally, I'd first click through every possible options and see what's there, maybe starting with the modules to see what's there too.
Wampserver local host
A someone else suggested typically you disregard those email related errors. The typical install of Drupal is looking for some level of email integration that you routinely have in a hosted installation but generally don't have and can live without in a localhost installation.
If you absolutely need that email integration in localhost it's a PITA to setup but can be setup by following the errors to the appropriate files and line numbers.
The general steps you now need to take are the following:
Very important to note is that the quick default installation of Wampserver creates a database username of root with no password
* Click on the Wampserver icon to fire it up.
* You should now have down in the task bar area near your clock have what looks like 1/2 of a round clock.
* Look around there and verify that your services are running and that it reports that your server is online.
* Open up the menu and click on localhost.
* Localhost will fire up and you should see a screen with the headings of Server Configuration, Tools, Your Projects, Your Aliases.
* Under Tools click on phpMyAdmin and create a new blank database (for example call it drupal6).
* Navigate to your directory structure under c:\Wamp\www\ and create a directory for example called drupal6
* Place your Drupal installation files into your new drupal6 directory
* Per the normal Drupal install instructions do not forget to copy and rename your default.settings.php to settings.php
* Go back to the task bar area ,click on localhost, and under Your Projects you should see and then click on your drupal6 directory.
* This should start the install, your database name will be drupal6, password will be root, and you will have no database password.
This typically is what it takes to get the Drupal installation under wampserver localhost going.
From this point on if problems/necessary changes come up you need to be familiar with some menu choices down in the task bar area. Apache, PHP, and MySQL.
Typically you need to go into Apache/Apache Modules and put a check mark on rewrite_module to allow clean URL's.
Also if goofing around with different versions of some programs (including Drupal) you may need to get an older or different version of PHP. The default currently in Wampserver is 5.1.36. Some of my installations require 5.2.11. Click on PHP/Version/Get More to download and have available different versions of PHP per your needs.
correction on default PHP version in Wampserver
My mistake when I listed the default PHP version in Wampserver as 5.1.36.
It's 5.3.0 but at times you need 5.2.11 or others.