[teaching with drupal] new weirdness

[Bill Fitzgerald]

Hello, Bradley,

Are you using the info from your old settings.php file?

It sounds like your site doesn't know what db and db user to use, and is 
therefore defaulting to the install.php --

Try that, and add in some choice words under your breath for good measure :)

Also, re your line breaks issue, make sure that the p and br tags are 
allowed in your input formats -- I have needed to add these manually on 
a few sites, but I never stopped to look at the issue in any real detail.

Cheers,

Bill

Dan Butcher wrote:
> Starting from scratch is what I would do--that, and saying a few
> choice words under my breath as I uploaded the files yet again! :)
>
> Dan
>
> On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 12:36 PM, Bleck, Bradley <BradB at spokanefalls.edu> wrote:
>   
>> That's exactly what I did Dan, and I'd end up with the install.php as opposed to the update.php. I guess I'll give it another shot, from scratch, and see what happens. When I did the previous site, it was a piece of cake, once I got past my first blunders. This time, doing exactly the same, it's being weird.
>>
>> Bradley Bleck
>> English Department
>> Spokane Falls CC
>> http://bleckblog.org
>> ________________________________________
>> From: teaching-bounces at drupaled.net [teaching-bounces at drupaled.net] On Behalf Of Dan Butcher [dan at danbutcher.com]
>> Sent: Monday, September 08, 2008 10:20 AM
>> To: teaching with drupal
>> Subject: Re: [teaching with drupal] new weirdness
>>
>> When I upgraded to 6.4, I didn't have to enter any of the database
>> name, etc. Did you go to http://yoursite.com/update.php after
>> uploading the 6.4 files to the server? Going to that URL should run
>> the update script, and that's never asked for the database info when
>> I've used it.
>>
>> Dan
>> _________________
>> Dan Butcher
>> Instructor and Webmaster
>> Department of English
>> University of Alabama at Birmingham
>> dan at danbutcher.com
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 9:30 AM, Bleck, Bradley <BradB at spokanefalls.edu> wrote:
>>     
>>> While I got my initial problem taken care of, I'm having troubles with one of my others sites. It is now running 5.10, but things are funky.
>>>
>>> First, I can't get it to upgrade to 6.4. I get to the database page of the update/install process, and when I plug in the database name, my username and password, then hit "submit" or whatever the right button is and the screen returns to data information page with the fields blank, so I re-enter the database name, and user name and password and the same thing happens again. I'll keep trying to see if I can figure things out.
>>>
>>> The second concern is that in 5.10, line breaks are not appearing when entries are posted. I have to plug in <P> and then choose "full html" to get paragraph and line breaks. Anyone else run into either of these in 5.10? I haven't checked the drupal site on this yet but am headed in that direction sometime today.
>>>
>>> Bradley Bleck
>>> English Department
>>> Spokane Falls CC
>>> http://bleckblog.org
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