Express installation : thanks for your help !

Posted March 27th, 2008 by idy

I tried the express install but I did not manage to get successfully through : thanks for telling me if I got something wrong in the installation procedure :
1. downloaded the drigg drupal package
2. edited the settings.php with my mysql settings
3. for enabling "Clean URLs", I did not find anywhere to edit that in settings.php or .htaccess, so I did nothing there
4. I uploaded the contents of drigg_distr_sql.mysql file into my database
5. I loaded drigg's homepage fine (so I guess the connection to the sql database went fine). I logged in with admin / adminhere, but I got sent to drigg_home?destination=drigg_home with an error 404 page. I tried install.php but I get the logical message that my Drupal is already installed.

Thanks for any help !

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Drupal installation issue

On March 28th, 2008 admin said:

Hi,

You _need_ clean urls for Drigg to work.
There are about 3424234 documents online which describe how to get Drupal working with Clean URLs... please have a look and things will work.

If you are not very strong with Drupal, I _warmly_ advise you use the express install...

Merc.

Express install indeed : clean URLs by default or not related ?

On March 28th, 2008 idy said:

Thanks - with a clean installation of Drupal, the clean url option is indeed easy to select.

I have used the express install, but am unsure if I have to change anything in the downloaded files except settings.php for getting drigg to work - I see the rewrite engine on in the settings file for instance. Isn't the express install files already set on clean urls by default - otherwise I have not figured out how to enable them as I cannot get access to the administration module ?

I have already installed fully-functioning drupal websites otherwise, so I am quite OK with the installation process, but I might have missed something with the drigg express install.

Thanks again.

Strange...

On March 29th, 2008 admin said:

Hi,

Please send us your site's URL. Otherwise, it's just guess-work!

Merc.

Website URL

On March 29th, 2008 idy said:

Sure, here it is : link
Try logging in with the login defaults, and I get a 404 page.

Thanks a lot if you can help - Drigg appears to be excellent, and I would hate to have to switch to other solutions because I am unable to get it to work, but again I might have misread something.

Thx !

Wrong rewrite

On March 29th, 2008 admin said:

Hi,

It really looks like your rewrite is not really happening, since Drupal is not even handling those "File not found" pages.
You will need to look into it. This is NOT a drigg problem, but a problem with the way APache is configured with Drupal.

Can anybody else here help?

Merc.