Thanks to Joe Moraca for helping me install Drupal on my laptop and to Bob O'Leary for helping me trouble shoot at the Florida DrupalCamp . Thanks to EVERYONE who helped put together the Florida Drupal Camp yesterday. You made me a Drupal enthusiast! See some pictures at http://tinyurl.com/dbpc8f
I wanted to share a problem and fix that I had yesterday. After the install, I got an error and at least one other person did too. The error message was:
HTTP request status Fails
Your system or network configuration does not allow Drupal to access web pages, resulting in reduced functionality. This could be due to your webserver configuration or PHP settings, and should be resolved in order to download information about available updates, fetch aggregator feeds, sign in via OpenID, or use other network-dependent services.
I fixed it by adding the following line to my Hosts file in Windows:
127.0.0.1 localhost
My Hosts file was all comments and by simply uncommenting or adding that line, the error message went away. I am using Windows 7 Beta Build 7000.
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