I am having trouble installing drupal on my localhost, using PHP Version 5.6.0-1, system Linux notosh 3.16-2-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.16.3-2 (2014-09-20) x86_64 Installing standard 7.31, no distro. Upon completion cannot login as user1 with password to access admin interface.
I just used drush to install on localhost and it solved all my problems. At present my PHP Version 5.6.4-1, it works fine.
drush upwd --password=testpass testuser
(for username = testuser to change pass to testpass. Username must already exist.) – beth Oct 3 '14 at 15:55