D7 install

Ciao a tutti per il mio blog personale ho scritto qualche post in merito all'installazione di Drupal 7 su Ubuntu server 10.04 LTS.
Vi allego il link, sperando che possa essere utile:
http://alfredoparisi.wordpress.com/2012/05/09/ubuntu-server-installare-drupal-7-14/

Wanted to start writing this online somewhere.

I have run into some really funky and serious problem trying to install Drupal 7 on CentOS LAMP stack.

This has got me stumped. And about to drive me insane. The problem occured when 7.12 came out in conjunction with PHP 5.3.10 and reverting back to older versions has not fixed the problem.

After loading a working openpublish instance from my desktop to Acquia devcloud via svn, the deploy failed with the following error:

PDOException: SQLSTATE[HY000] [2013] Lost connection to MySQL server at 'reading initial communication packet', system error: 111 in lock_may_be_available() (line 167 of /mnt/www/html/jkrivanedev/docroot/openpublish/includes/lock.inc).

Not sure what to do from here.

Is it best to install Drupal at root level (public_html)?
Or is it better to create a Drupal folder (public_html/Drupal) and install there.

Are there pros and cons, warnings... or does it simply not matter?
Also, are there ramifications regarding multisite install or subdomains?

As always, thanks so much for your insights.

Our Boston D7 Dojo Group met on Tues Nov 30. Since most of us have not worked on a full-Drupal 7 install, we decided that our first step is to get a local copy on everone's drive. Next week we are going to investigate the configuration/modules/admin of the D7 core install and compare it to D6 and Drupal Gardens.

Here's our notes: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1GEAG1h8uGXMIlFQCt9Oflti0ICYUBSrgfrWI...

Event: http://groups.drupal.org/node/108594