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AlanF

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Error when I try to run index.php during installation
July 11, 2008, 02:57:28 pm
I've installed the Bitnami Drupal 5 stack. I've downloaded the CiviCRM tarball from SourceForge. Now I'm trying to exercise this step:

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    * Point your web browser to the following URL:

http://<your_drupal_home>/sites/all/modules/civicrm/drupal/install/index.php
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The problem is that when I use "Open File:" and go to that file, I get this error message:

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Firefox can't find the file at /Y:/sites/all/modules/civicrm/drupal/install/$drupalURL
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Where should the $drupalURL value be coming from?

Thanks a lot,
Alan

Piotr Szotkowski

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Re: Error when I try to run index.php during installation
July 11, 2008, 04:46:22 pm
I’m not sure I fully get what you’re doing, but the idea is not to open a file with your OS’s ‘Open File…’ selector, but rather to visit a certain URL with your web browser (so more like Firefox’s ‘Open Location…’). This distinction is important.

So, if your Drupal stack is at http://localhost/drupal/ (i.e., this is the address you visit to access your Drupal installation), you should try going to http://localhost/drupal/sites/all/modules/civicrm/drupal/install/index.php
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AlanF

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Re: Error when I try to run index.php during installation
July 14, 2008, 09:57:02 am
That helped, thanks. I'm using the Bitnami Drupal stack, so "localhost" had to be replaced with another string, but overall it seems to have worked. The first time I tried installing CiviCRM, it told me my username was wrong. But when I fixed it, it chugged along for a bit. I briefly went to another browser tab. When I came back, the browser had taken me to the familiar Drupal installation page. Am I right in deducing from this that the CiviCRM installation process worked? I didn't actually see what was going on at the time.

AlanF

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Re: Error when I try to run index.php during installation
July 18, 2008, 10:20:01 am
It looks like the CiviCRM installation DID work.
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