The instructions you linked above are for using Webmin, although it shouldn't make much difference. You can create a new user and/or group to own the files in your web directory. In fact, that is preferable. When doing so, you need to ensure that you update the httpd.conf file to reflect your changed ownerships for the "User" and "Group" values. That may be the error you're running into. Let me know if that works.

Thanks,

Bryan

1. Enter the command:
yum install php-mysql

2. Edit your php.ini file and un-comment the following lines:
extension=mysql.so
extension=mysqli.so

Let us know how that works for you.

Thanks!

-Bryan

1. Run the following command: yum install php-mysql
2. Edit your php.ini file to un-comment the following lines:
extension=mysql.so
extension=mysqli.so

Let us know if that works for you.

Thanks!

-Bryan

For more help, see the Installation and upgrading handbook. If you are unsure what these terms mean you should probably contact your hosting provider.
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I have a database set up and permissions set, but I never even get that far, this is the first page I see when I hit the Drupal site.

Drupal 5.16
CentOs 5.1

On install, there is no root password for the database. You should login to MySQL by running the command: mysql from the command line. Hit Enter when it asks for a password. Once you've done that, follow the instructions above on creating a database and assigning a user to the database. You will also want to immediately set up a password for the root user on your database. Here is a link on general security practices from MySQL: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/security-g…

Please let us know if you have any other problems setting up your db for Drupal.

Thanks,

Bryan