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oh CiviGurus,

i've had civicrm/drupal running on a shared host (linux) for about 2 years. now i'm trying to set up a development copy of the site on my macbook (Mac OS 10.4). so i've downloaded all the files and databases and intalled them locally. durpal is working fine, but when i enable civicrm i get the error below.

at first i had the $civicrm_root set to the wrong path. civicrm is at least working well enough to give me an error telling me that $civicrm_root is set to the wrong path. this error is given within the drupal framework; that is, within the context of my layout template. but as soon as i set $civicrm_root to the correct page i just get a page with nothing but the error below, no mater which page i attempt navigate to.

Sorry. A non-recoverable error has occurred.

Please review the CiviCRM Installation Guide and try searching the CiviCRM Mailing List Archives for information on the error below.

Error Details:

[db_error: message="DB Error: connect failed" code=-24 mode=callback callback=CRM_Core_Error::handle prefix="" info=" [DB Error: connect failed]"]

thanks for any insight on this issue.

r

The new automated installer (for Drupal) has pretty good guidance on fixing things like this. I recommend it highly.
http://wiki.civicrm.org/confluence/display/CRMDOC/Automated+Installer+for+Drupal

The new automated installer (for Drupal) has pretty good guidance on fixing things like this. I recommend it highly.
http://wiki.civicrm.org/confluence/display/CRMDOC/Automated+Installer+for+Drupal

the installer looks like it would be very helpful for a new install. but it doesn't seem like it can help with replicating a copy of an already existing site on another server (which is what i'm trying to set up). the site is already running on drupal 5.3 and civicrm 1.9.

I am also trying to install civicrm 1.9 with drupal 5.3 on my macbook, with MAMP, but haven't gotten as far as you.

What did you use for $civicrm_root? I am using
/users/me/documents/my-dir/drupal/sites/all/modules/civicrm/

But I get the white screen when civicrm is enabled.

i'm not familiar with MAMP. but, using the default install of Apache on os x this was is where civicrm should be living:

/Library/WebServer/Documents/modules/civicrm/

or if you want it in your user directory it would be

/Users/your-user-name/Sites/modules/civicrm/

both these paths assume your drupal install is not in a subdirectory under Documents or Sites.

hope that helps.