Drupal Installation Problems

[poddys]

Firstly I admit I don't know what I am doing when it comes to php, I'm doing my best trying to read documentation and understanding what I read, but you can only go so far before you have to experiment...

I have a number of web sites installed on 1 account (all but 1 are extremely low volume and all but 2 have less than 10 pages each - I'm using less than 5% bandwidth and disk usage in total).

I have these domains in their own sub-folders within the main htdocs folder, where the folders are called _aaaaaaaa for aaa.com etc. I manually edited the .htaccess file to point each domain to it's correct folder. This has worked fine for my html based sites.

I installed Drupal using Install Central today. It asked me for the domain that I wanted to install to, I specified the correct one. The install asked for a folder, I specified "drupalaaaaaaa". It created this folder within the top level htdocs folder. But I can't access it. The install process gave me a url to use - http://aaaaaaaa.com/drupalaaaaaaaa/ but I'm getting a page not found error.

I'm just wondering if I ought to have installed Drupal within the correct sub-folder, or whether I need to (a) modify the .htaccess file for my domain or (b) add/modify the index page. Right now the _aaaaaaaa folder (which is what .htaccess redirects to) contains only index.htm

I'm quite happy to uninstall and try again, of course there is no uninstall option on Install Central!

Thanks in advance.
Tony Payne

[Doc C]

You have to uninstall using the Manage button in Install Central.

There is a Manage button next to every application you install using Install Central. Clicking that will take you to a place where you can
do the uninstall. Easy pleasey lemon squeezy.

[poddys]

Thanks Doc.

It looks like having Drupal in the root htdocs folder is correct right, but how to point to it when my site is in _aaaaaa folder (at the same level as the drupalaaaaaaa folder?
Do I need to change my .htdocs file to point my site at the drupalaaaaaaa folder?

I would like to use Drupal with other sites, so I'm really unsure of where to go from here.
I'm not even sure that Drupal is right for me, but after months of browsing through Jumbla and all the other options, think the best option is to play around.

My site isn't yet set up, so I can't do any damage to it. The content exists as part of another domain in html, I want to rework it using php into it's own domain.

Thanks again.

[Doc C]

I've probably installed just about everything in Install Central at one point or another just to mess around with it.

I did load MediaWiki for both of my domains so they are located at http:\\domainname.com\wiki-name\

(Yes, I do know the slashies are pointed in the wrong direction. That's so the post doesn't create a link).