I'm just now setting up a new installation of Drupal for a new site I'm about to whip up this weekend for a client.

I've installed Drupal a hundred times or more on my server with almost no issue. I have a short list of steps that I take to set up a new development site with Drupal.

My Standard Steps...

• Create Database/Assign database user priveleges
• Unzip/Untar site files/Rename drupal directory
• Chmod -R 777 sites/default
• Run Drupal web installer
• Chmod -R 755/666 sites/default
• done

Issues now with Drupal 6.3

It appears that now Drupal is requiring that the sites/default/settings.php be manually created/touched by the user so that it isn't created and owned by the web server if the web installer creates it automatically.

The following error keeps coming up, EVEN after giving the sites/default directory full permissions:

I've manually created a settings.php file, and made sure it had full permissions as well (777), but then the error takes a new turn to having problems with the MySQL connection (which is current and working elsewhere).

More information to come...