Drupal on AwardSpace.com Free Hosting (avoiding Internal Server Errors)

It's quite possible to run Drupal using AwardSpace.com free hosting.  However your initial installation is likely to generate 500 Internal Server Errors.  Here is how to overcome the errors and get Drupal running.

1. Upload Drupal to your domain folder (or a folder of your choice).
2. Comment out the following lines in the .htaccess (add a # before them)
   Options -Indexes
Options +FollowSymLinks
DirectoryIndex index.php
3. Uncomment the following line (remove the # before it)
   RewriteBase /

You should now be able to install Drupal.

Note: Do not use localhost as the host name.  Create your database first, and the details will be shown in the AwardSpace control panel.