By Gunnar Langemark on

I have tried to install Drupal - only to discover that I have no more browser access to my site. If I call the site with or without the index.php I'm turned down.

I have had PostNuke running before. No problems.

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Kobus’s picture

Kobus commented

This is your first Drupal installation? Meaning you started from scratch? It was not an upgrade from a previous Drupal version?

Do you get any error messages?

Kobus Myburgh
www.netgold.co.za

Gunnar Langemark’s picture

Gunnar Langemark commented

I get this message:

Forbidden
You don't have permission to access / on this server.

and this:

Forbidden
You don't have permission to access /index.php on this server.

I have this in my conf file:

$db_url = "mysql://langemark_com:[password without the square brackets]@[db server url without square brackets]/langemark_com";

I don't think its the problem.

I speculate - an now I have asked - if my ISP does not allow a cron. file and thus cancel access to the site?

I have no knowledge about the php/pear path. Is it usually nescessary to write that?

As You may be able to read from this: I'm no programmer...... Only local images are allowed.

Gunnar

Kobus’s picture

Kobus commented

I'd refrain from giving advice here, because my *nix knowledge is a bit on the (very) low side. What I sense though is that it's not a Drupal issue. Also, Drupal doesn't need a cron to run - a cron is only needed for certain functions. I hope someone else on the site can help you...

Kobus Myburgh
www.netgold.co.za

dries’s picture

dries commented

This is not a Drupal problem; either your webserver is not configured properly or it doesn't have read-access to your www directory.

raster’s picture

raster commented

I'd also try the .htaccess file.

Just rename .htaccess to something else (try _htaccess) and see if that works.

bertboerland’s picture

bertboerland commented

judging from what is see on http://langemark.com/ it is solved?

please post how it was solved if known so people with same problems browsing through this forum might learn from you

(my quess, httpd.conf)

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groets
bert boerland

kika’s picture

kika commented

try to remove .htaccess file in Drupal root directory. Maybe it helps. Let us know.

mblank’s picture

mblank commented

I experienced exactly the same problem after installing drupal (4.0.0) - access to the pages generated an "internal server error".

I played around with the .htaccess file - any overload of the php variables seems to generate this server error.

any help welcome - I can mail the info from phpinfo() to anyone who knows more about apache and php than I do - this is not my own web server, so I cannot change Apache or PHP site settings

Michael Blank.

dries’s picture

dries commented

See http://list.drupal.org/drupal-support/2002-December/003711.html for the solution.

mblank’s picture

mblank commented

...however, it was not exactly the same problem. The admin of my website will change the necessary php values in the site settings - for security reasons he does not want to set php values in local .htaccess files...

ron collins’s picture

ron collins commented

i had the same problem and found that apache could not connect because i had installed drupal in a directory called drupal-4.5.0 and then created a link to it called drupal. apache didn't want to follow the link. when i got rid of it, it worked.