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I am hosting my site on my server at home. Using a godaddy address and dynsdns I am able to get to http://mysite/xampp (from outside my network) but would like the drupal webpage to show up instead of the xampp page.

I've done a ton of searching and trying-out different solutions and feel I have gotten closest editing the htaccess file I''ve put in the xampp directory and the drupal/sites/default directory. ( as per the directions I found here http://drupal.org/node/520700 ).

Presently if I go to www://mysite.com it will direct me the "it works" page on xampp. If I go to http://mysite.com it goes to my drupal site but the theme is missing.

I think I can work around the http / www issue but why is the theme missing?

What I've done is:

In dtdocs put an htaccess file.

RewriteEngine on
  # RewriteBase /
  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !=/favicon.ico
  RewriteRule (.*) drupal/$1 [L]
  RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?q=$1 [L,QSA]
( I changed the name of the drupal directory to drupal in htdocs )

In the drupal directory I left the htaccess file alone.

In the site/default/ directory I edited the settings.php file to:

$base_url = 'http://www.mysite.com';  // NO trailing slash!

Not sure what why this is happening.

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cellcomputer - June 13, 2010 - 10:41
newHi

I have the same problem

My local machine database information are username: root and no password and my database name is : database

My host sql; infromation are:

Prefix: life with sql password different to my database password
my database name is database
my database username: admin
password is admin

and I have set my configuration like:

$db_url = 'mysqli://admin:admin@94.195.72.11/database';
$db_prefix = '';

I still have pronlem with my site off-line

What can I do to have a corect setting

Yours sincerely

Vincent

"When we install Drupal, we give the name of database, user and password. I supposed it's stored somewhere.
How can we change the password of mysql connexion?
Now, I can't access my local drupal installation because, during installation I specified no password, and after easyphp upgrade, I get a new password.
Now, Drupal send the page :
Site off-line
The site is currently not available due to technical problems. Please try again later ...
The mysql error was: . and nothing
How can I continue to work with that Drupal installation? ....."

vincent

Recently I tried a low cost VPS, and find unable to run drupal quickly. Anyone try burst.net VPS?

Hello everyone

anyone have links or docs to setup a good secure production web server for drupal
on Centos / ubuntu , and windows ?

thanks

Can anyone recommend UK based hosting for an Ubercart site?

My site wont have huge traffic but i want decent hosting for reliabilty and SEO.
Thanks

I am getting trouble in installing drupal in 3ix

first, I export database
then create database and import sql file to 3ix,
and then upload file to public_html
but it didn't work

in setting.php
I have modified this line: $db_url = 'mysqli://root@localhost/rights_of';

and the drupal is work in my pc

it shows this message:
If you are the maintainer of this site, please check your database settings in the settings.php file and ensure that your hosting provider's database server is running. For more help, see the handbook, or contact your hosting provider.

can anyone help me ???

Hi everyone!

I made the mistake of having my website hosted on GoDaddy, I registered my site through them and I thought I'd have them host it while I'm in the Drupal development phase. The thing is, the performance of the basic $5/month is awful, even for a single developer. It takes about 10 seconds to access anything with Drupal.

Is there such thing as Drupal friendly hosts? Sites optimized for running Drupal? Maybe a one click install of Drupal too (which Godaddy does support)?

I trust that you'll give me the best and most honest advice about this.

Thanks for the help,
Zade

Running Mac OS 10.5.8
Trying to set up local host.
Have MAMP installed OK.
Configured root to folder name htdocs
File show up fine on my Mac directory under MAMP
with all my drupal 6.x files, etc, and a test index.html I put in to test.
When I navigate to http://localhost:8888/MAMP, MAMP shows up fine.
however I get a 404 page saying can't find any page I put in.
E.g. http://localhost:8888/MAMP/index.html, my test page, causes a 404.
Nothing in htdocs will open, nor can I open htdocs itself.

What am I doing wrong?

Thanks in advance!

Mike Storer, Los Angeles.

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Hi! I am troubleshooting my site being a resource hog on a shared server, and need to figure out the limits of drupal use on a shared server.

What is your experiance? I am getting timeouts at around 50 users simultaneously. I have tried to stop using all dev versions of modules and trying to improve my caching skills. I just need rto know what is the most users I can expect with an optimized drupal on a shared hosting server.

Thanks!

I have 3 Drupal sites that I have developed but I learned most of it by trial and error.

I recently decided to set up a localhost to try some things out, so
1) I copied all the files into the www folder on Wampserver
2) I backed up the database and copied it into mysql on wamp (I had to install php 5.2 and also create a username and password in mysql to match the one in the original database)

I now get the "site offline" page - it has the header and site name, so it must be accessing the database.

On my real website, I would just add "/user" to the end of the name and then log in. However I get "Not Found - The requested URL /sitename.com/user was not found on this server.

How do I get into the site?

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I try to get a drupal site running on GoDaddy but faced some issues with views. I have everything running on my own test server where I have developed the site.

But when I transfer site to GoDaddy I am having an issue to get views working on there, all that happens when I try to create or modify views is a popup window with an error message:

An error occurred at /admin/build/views/ajax/add-item/123456789/default/field.

Error Description: 0:

I have nothing else than drupal core and views added to server…?

Operating System: Linux Hosting
Type: Shared Hosting Hosting
Configuration: 2.1
PHP Version: PHP 5.x

Not sure what logs to look and where to go next to solve this problem.

I have finnaly launched my website on drupal www.wasta-industrial.com

But I have a pretty big problem with the language switch. Please help me configure the .htaccess file for switching the languages.
I have a couple of domains pointing to this website:

www.wasta.pl
www.wasta-industrial.de
www.wasta-industrial.com
www.wasta.eu

now I wanna that this domains point only to one page but with a language prefix:

www.wasta-industrial.de -> www.wasta-industrial.com/de

Can anybody help?

Hi guys
Sorry if I posted in the wrong forum but my website, being hosted at ovh.net, has been attacked from external users, and what amazed me was that all my pages were in the right place (found out after logging in as admin and using rewrite cond in htaccess), but if any other user was trying to open the site, it was redirecting to another website.
I wanted to know if by only accessing the website users could get access to the htaccess file, or it is accessible only via ftp? also how to solve this problem in the future?
thx...

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I thought a VPS would give me far better performance than a shared hosting service, but I since discovered that I am able to set a far higher PHP memory limit in the Go Daddy shared hosting account (≥ 256 Mb) than is possible with the cheaper VPS service (~ 96 Mb). If memory was the most important factor, I would conclude that the shared hosting is the best solution, however I would like to hear the advice from the Drupal community before I make up my mind.

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