By ninabarley on
  • I am at step 4 of the Basic Installation, but when I browse to where I would expect the installation to begin, (http://drupal.nbarley.net/index.php) I get the following error message:
    Fatal error: main() [function.require]: Failed opening required './includes/bootstrap.inc' (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php') in /homepages/0/d282400628/htdocs/drupal/index.php on line 15

    • This is what I've done so far:

  • When I unzipped the Drupal 6.19 file, I got a long list of files - none of them in folders. Since I had my unzip parameters set to keep folders, I assumed this was correct, and I uploaded the files to the sub-domain I created for my Drupal work...essentially my root, although it's actually a folder within the root.
  • I then created my database, user etc.
  • Instruction 3 of the Basic Installation (http://drupal.org/node/628292) says to find the default.settings.php file in your /sites/default folder, copy it and rename it to settings.php. But I don't have any folders.
    Nevertheless, I found the file, copied and renamed it, and set the permissions for it to 666. I couldn't change the folder permissions because I didn't get any folders.

    • Now, I'm getting the failure to open message - I don't know if it's because of the missing folder structure or something else. I have no idea how to address this issue.
    Can anyone help me, please?
    Thanks!

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pasive’s picture

pasive commented

Hi,

After you have unarchived Drupal-6.x distro you directory structure should be kept as it is, otherwise it will not work at all, what have you used for unziping command line or GUI program?

Having this sort error means that you php installation path is not correctly configured, you might need to look at your php installation path settings - usually in php.ini file.
Have you read install.txt file which comes together with installation package?

I hope it helps.

P.

http://passivemanagement.net/

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ninabarley commented

I used WinZip which automatically opens and extracts the downloaded file onto my Windows Vista PC. I tried it 3 times, and it never extracted it with any kind of multi-folder directory structure. All the files just got dumped into one drupal folder. I don't know how to use the UNIX commands on a PC, although years ago I used to do some DOS stuff. Do I have to go to a DOS prompt to use the commands in the install.txt file?

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ninabarley commented

Well, it turns out that you can't use WinZip or FreeFiles Unzip to extract the installation download. 7-Zip works wonders, is free, and is super quick to download and install. Voila, the files are downloaded, file structure intact!

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rjdempsey commented

Yeah 7-zip is the way to go. Happy to hear your issue was solved.