Hey guys, I'm trying to build a Drupal based website for my school, but I can't get it to install. I'm running Ubuntu 6.06, and just can't get it to work right. I've installed Apache2, PHP5, and MySQL5, and then when I try and run the "install.php" I either get a database error, or my broswer (firefox) asks if I want to download or open the file. Can anyone help me with this??
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If it's asking if you want to download the page then it seems like the PHP isn't getting processed. Make a new page at root level, and put in this line of code (and nothing else):
<?php phpinfo(); ?>
Then use your browser to load the page. You should get a big page with all sorts of information about your PHP install. If you don't, that's the problem. By the way, delete the file when you're done...kind of bad security practice to leave something like that lying around.
<?php phpinfo(); ?>
Then use your browser to load the page. You should get a big page with all sorts of information about your PHP install. If you don't, that's the problem. By the way, delete the file when you're done...kind of bad security practice to leave something like that lying around.
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Is the [site root]/settings/default/settings.php file set to allow write permissions? It should be. Once the auto-install is finished, you can then set it to read-only for security.
Overall though, I think your details are far too vague. It should work out of the box on a clean ubuntu 6 installation. Try answering these questions:
1. Is MySQL on the same machine or a separate / dedicated MySQL server?
2. Is php5-mysql installed? (it should be automatically)
3. Is libapache2-mod-php5 installed? (it should be automatically)
4. Is the MySQL server actually running? (i.e. can you do mysql -uroot and log in?)
5. As previously mentioned, what does PHPInfo tell you?
6. Do you have any related errors in your /var/log/apache2/error.log file?
I've never had a problem getting Drupal to work on a properly configured machine, so I'm betting it's an issue with the installation or configuration of the packages on the OS (specifically PHP or MySQL)
Overall though, I think your details are far too vague. It should work out of the box on a clean ubuntu 6 installation. Try answering these questions:
1. Is MySQL on the same machine or a separate / dedicated MySQL server?
2. Is php5-mysql installed? (it should be automatically)
3. Is libapache2-mod-php5 installed? (it should be automatically)
4. Is the MySQL server actually running? (i.e. can you do mysql -uroot and log in?)
5. As previously mentioned, what does PHPInfo tell you?
6. Do you have any related errors in your /var/log/apache2/error.log file?
I've never had a problem getting Drupal to work on a properly configured machine, so I'm betting it's an issue with the installation or configuration of the packages on the OS (specifically PHP or MySQL)