John Thomas wrote:
Sorry, I should have made myself clearer. Drupal-5 is available on EPEL, so it can just be yum-installed. The question is, what to do after that? Eg is it a good idea to create a user drupal who will own the database one has to create?
No need to create a user Drupal at the OS level.
You need to create a database and a database user/password. The database/user/password go into the settings.php file.
I understand that that is the theory, but it is clear from a quick google for "drupal installation" that many people apart from me do not find it that simple.
The fact is, there are a dozen points where there is some ambiguity, in the absence of precise instructions.
For example, I created a directory /etc/drupal/sites/www.gayleard.com with my settings.php it in, as did several of the tutorials I visited. But I get error messages in /var/log/messages telling me that sites/default cannot be read.
That's just an example. As I say, there are several other points of ambiguity. If only the so-called tutorials and howtos just listed the exact commands they gave.
There is a Drupal support list too, which may be more appropriate at some point.
I did indeed ask on http://drupal.org/forum, but just got replies saying that it was easy. Not one person listed a single command they gave.