Recent Posts by AlanF

Topic: Drupal / Installating Drupal 6.2 on Vista

Wow, that was a quick response!

Indeed, I could log into phpMyAdmin when I used “administrator” with the password I had specified during installation. Is there anything in the installation interface that tells the user that this is the username?

I look forward to hearing about your attempt to reproduce the problems I saw.

Thanks,
Alan

Topic: Drupal / Installating Drupal 6.2 on Vista

I spent a day and a half unsuccessfully trying to install Drupal 6.2 on Vista/WAMP. Finally, I found the Bitnami Drupal 6.2 stack, and installed it successfully. Wahoo! The only problem so far is that phpMyAdmin doesn’t recognize the username and password that I used during the Bitnami configuration process. Not sure why. Leaving both blank or the password blank doesn’t work, either. Any clues?

Since your installation worked successfully, I’m hoping you might have insight into the problem I was facing when doing my own non-Bitnami installation, because there’s a chance you have seen my problem and addressed it.

I was able to install Drupal 6.2 successfully on XP, but never on Vista (though I could install Drupal 5.7 on Vista). The process always hung when I pressed “Save and continue” from the “Database configuration” page. Using the Firefox Live HTTP Headers extension, I saw that the HTTP from this action never reached the localhost.

None of the following worked:
- using “127.0.0.1” rather than “localhost” in addresses typed into the browser
- editing httpd.conf to use port 81 rather than port 80, or to comment out “ServerName” entirely
- disabling User Access Control from Vista
- renaming .htaccess
- adding ”# to comment out a line starting with” in the hosts file
- using “Intranet Settings” in Internet Explorer

Another question: is it possible to configure Bitnami to contain multiple sites? I’ll search the existing forums and documentation to see whether that’s been answered elsewhere.

Thanks!
Alan