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| author | Angie Byron <webchick@24967.no-reply.drupal.org> | 2010-09-14 18:46:40 +0000 |
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| committer | Angie Byron <webchick@24967.no-reply.drupal.org> | 2010-09-14 18:46:40 +0000 |
| commit | fc53a19440075d7b0d55277c46b19643c136ca19 (patch) | |
| tree | ce99ab49a05e11d703d55fa6459c0edf51ab577b /INSTALL.txt | |
| parent | 86226679d91335a9f637205b0c21e0280f3cfe5b (diff) | |
| download | brdo-fc53a19440075d7b0d55277c46b19643c136ca19.tar.gz brdo-fc53a19440075d7b0d55277c46b19643c136ca19.tar.bz2 | |
#418302 by David_Rothstein, dww, reglogge, and lots and lots of other people: Copy default.settings.php to settings.php during install if webserver owns files. Eliminates 'red error of death' during install for most shared hosting set-ups.
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| -rw-r--r-- | INSTALL.txt | 6 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/INSTALL.txt b/INSTALL.txt index 0e00a0e77..45f414735 100644 --- a/INSTALL.txt +++ b/INSTALL.txt @@ -79,13 +79,15 @@ INSTALLATION http://drupal.org/project/translations and download the package. Extract the contents to the same directory where you extracted Drupal into. -2. CREATE THE CONFIGURATION FILE AND GRANT WRITE PERMISSIONS +2. IF NECESSARY, CREATE THE CONFIGURATION FILE AND GRANT WRITE PERMISSIONS Drupal comes with a default.settings.php file in the sites/default directory. The installer uses this file as a template to create your settings file using the details you provide through the install process. To avoid problems when upgrading, Drupal is not packaged with an actual - settings file. You must create a file named settings.php. You may do so + settings file. During installation, Drupal will try to create this settings + file automatically. If this fails (which it can due to different server + setups), you must create a file named settings.php yourself. You may do so by making a copy of default.settings.php (or create an empty file with this name in the same directory). For example, (from the installation directory) make a copy of the default.settings.php file with the command: |