So in attempting to get up a site on Network Solutions I found it to be one issue after another with crazy php.ini setups, no ssh access :( (torture!!) I ventured to Google for some encouraging thoughts and dig deep in the drupal forums for a solution. Lo and behold I found many other frustrated developers with similar issues and then stumbled upon one post that helped.
So my issue was a unbeknownst by me message that said to turn off register_globals and magic_quotes_gpc which apparently is verboten on the Network Solutions servers because it would affect other shared hosted sites', but in accordance to some good advice I took a deep breath, laughed at them uncontrollably, blogged about it, then put this piece of code in the cgi-bin folder within a text file called 'php.ini':
register_globals = off magic_quotes_gpc = off
Yeah, this whole blog post was all about solving the Drupal install message of 'TURN THIS CRAP OFF', but I figured the it was better to at least remember that I didn't give up!
Thanks go to nerdliness.com and this forum post, btw.
