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. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland