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I uploaded civicrm (untarred) on Godaddy, my host site.  I created a database on Godaddy for civicrm.
When I follow the instructions for install (on the civicrm wiki), it leads me to a "page not found" on my site.
Civicrm is showing up on my site, still disabled (does that mean it's already installed?).  According to the wiki, I should do the install before enabling the module, but I can't find the path for the install as explained.  If I enable civicrm on my site, is there a setting to direct it to the database I created for it on my hosting provider?   

I looked at the instructions at:
http://wiki.civicrm.org/confluence/display/CRMDOC/Automated+Installer+for+Drupal
but had to modify because some of the instructions  didn't seem to apply to the way Drupal is set-up for me.
I have the Drupal 5.2 original files on my computer (Mac) in the applications folder, and have uploaded them all (by FTP) into a Godaddy folder.  I'm also using a database for Drupal created on the Godaddy site that uses a different hostname than "localhost".  Godaddy has its own hostnames for its databases.
I first created an additional database on Godaddy, to be used only for civicrm (also with the Godaddy host name instead of "localhost").
Then I downloaded civicrm from the civicrm wiki URL to my computer, into "applications/drupal/drupal-5.2/modules" folder.  I untarred it there.  This is where I didn't know what to do next because my Drupal files are in a totally different location than indicated in the instructions.  When I installed Drupal, I only FTPed everything to Godaddy and the install was automated.  All I had to do is direct Drupal to its database.  So I assumed that the process might be identical with civicrm.
 So I uploaded the untarred civicrm to the "drupal/modules" folder where all my other modules are stored at Godaddy.  The civicrm module is showing up in my site, but I can't figure out if it went through the install process using the Drupal database (in which case I would like to switch it to its own database), or if the whole process was flawed.

FYI, deleting civicrm from my hosting provider's files solved the problem and my site is back functioning.
If anyone knows how to load civicrm to a standard hosting provider, please let me know.
Keep in mind that I'm not a coder, but I took cut-and-paste 101 in college, so this I can do.
Or changing text in a line is also feasible.  I need to learn php!
Thanks!

Dave, thanks for your reply.
The php version is 5.

I've been going through the wiki for install and the civicrm files (plus browsing through a php book to get some terminology), and some things are starting to make sense, but there are a few basics that I still can't figure out.

1 - Is the "civicrm.setting.php.sample" the right file where changes have to be made, and is it the only file?

2 - It seems like all changes that have to be made occur in the "define" lines.
(Yes, that's the extent of my basics...).  Is that correct?

3 - In the Settings file, in the File System Paths section:

 * IMPORTANT: The COMPILEDIR directory must exist,
 * and your web server must have read/write access to these directories.

Does that simply mean that the file must be FTPed as a read/write file?  If so, do I need to locate that file and change anything, or is read/write the default?

4 - In the last line of the "CiviCRM Database Settings" section:

define( 'CIVICRM_MYSQL_PATH', '/usr/bin/' );

I don't see what "/usr/bin/" refers to.

Thanks!

a small correction to dave's reply

You need to move your civicrm location from drupal/modules to drupal/sites/all/modules/ and then run:

http://<your_drupal_home>/sites/all/modules/civicrm/drupal/install/index.php

lobo

check the sites/all/README.txt

// $Id: README.txt,v 1.3 2006/12/23 15:35:51 dries Exp $

This directory should be used to place downloaded and custom modules
and themes which are common to all sites. This will allow you to
more easily update Drupal core files. These modules and themes should
be placed in subdirectories called modules and themes as follows:

  sites/all/modules
  sites/all/themes

the installer checks that civicrm is in that directory before doing the install.

lobo

The installer requires you to have civicrm under sites/all/modules. Its your call if you want to use the installer or not.

you might want to consider hiring someone from http://civicrm.org/professional/ to help you out

lobo

I have some answers which maybe can be helpful.
For this original post, the solution was actually simple.

I finally realized that, although all my modules are at the core of my host server (at the same level as "sites/all"), the civicrm module doesn't need to be with these modules.  So I created a civicrm folder in "sites/all" and uploaded civicrm in that folder.
In the install, everything checked out "ok" (database was found and everything else was alright), except for the php version.
The warning was that the version of php on the server was 4.3.11, so I wasn't able to install civicrm.

I called godaddy tech support, and they confirmed that their servers support php5.
However, because some applications cannot run on php5, it's set up so that files with a php extension run on php4 and files with a php5 extension use php5.

I do have their Hosting 2.0 package which enables me to use php5.  But she ran some tests and told me that because all my files have a php extension, they automatically run on php4.

So the only way to install right now seems to be a manual install with php4.
Being that 1.8 is the last version to support php4, I assume that the next version will have php5 extensions, and the installer should run smoothly.

Is that correct?

Richard