after pulling my hair getting the thing installed and putting in every module i liked, i am completely lost what to do, after setting the modules up, when i have click on the home button i am getting this:
"Page not found
Set up username and e-mail address access rules for new and existing accounts (currently logged in accounts will not be logged out). If a username or e-mail address for an account matches any deny rule, but not an allow rule, then the account will not be allowed to be created or to log in. A host rule is effective for every page view, not just registrations.
Group specific blocks are only visible on group pages and not on systemwide pages like the home page or admin pages."
i dont really know what this means, but i went ti the admin/access/ access controls and
made up this, even though i dont know what it means and the hand books dont explain it.
"allow e-mail % "
does anyone know what is going on?
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1 problem, 1 bug
Funny, I've seen this also. It's a core issue, and the message is (confusingly) not related to your issue.
YOU have a 404 error. This needs to be fixed. you are still logged on as admin, so can probably visit /admin/settings/ and try setting the 404 page correctly. And or stop the front-page from going to the wrong place by setting it back to 'node'. (Did you have front-page.module? turn it off again)
The PROBLEM with this misleading message is a bug (?) in the help system which returns the above text incorrectly when there is no valid path parameter. It's been implimented as a fallback from one of the modules hook_help() functions and needs to be fixed.
I was going to raise an issue and patch for it .. but it's xmas...
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Start small
Drupal is a complex beast. That's a blessing and a curse.
Instead of installing all the modules you like, your first task should be to get core Drupal running.
Remove / disable all your contributed modules. Then try again and report back.
And please specify a Drupal version (4.7.4, 5rc1?)
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thanks very much for
thanks very much for responding !
i am using 4.7
i dont understand what you mean by "core" i followed the instructions it said on welcome to your new drupal site, !. i signed up, 2. went to administer and set the general settings, 3. put in the modules, etc. i have not even gotten to 4. themes, and 5 content....but i am following what it says. i am still trying to figure out the domain, and subdomain thingys so i can hook them up, i am looking at thru out this drupal home site and people seem to be going in dozens of different directions trying to hook up their subdomains and mains to drupal.
okay i fixed the original problem, changed the default site back to node. still working on how to get it to read www.mysite.com original page, i think i will try making the index.html to index.php in the root folder.
thanks again!
okay, i see what i did wrong
thanks for responding, i went to the administer page and saw the list of activities and clicked on the many "page not found" errors. the problem is its not reading the site i want to direct it to www.mysite.com . drupal is on www.mysite.com/drupal.
drupal is a directory in my www.www root directory, i keep trying to redirect it to the index.htm page in my root directory but it doesnt reconnize that, so i kept getting the big ole "page not found". i put the word "node" back in the default and it brought me back to "welcome to your drupal site", so that problem was fixed, but i am back to square one.
it keeps using the index.php page in the drupal directory, but i am afraid to mess with that. i dont want the mysite.com/drupal to be the first page. i thought the front page module would fix that, but it didnt.
Ok
Now we're making progress. Let's take small bites.
1) By 'core' I mean only the modules that come in the initial Drupal 4.7.x download. That list is here (http://drupal.org/handbook/modules). Get those working, then add additional modules.
2) Drupal runs everything through it's index.php file. If your site is 100% Drupal (with no external HTML pages), your web server should point to that index.php file as your homepage. You do not need to keep drupal in a directory, you could move all the files into your www root. Never edit the index.php file.
3) You can specify the Drupal path to your homepage under administer/settings. (And frontpage does give you more options for this). Setting the default home page to 'node' is typical. But you can set it to any Drupal-recognized path. There are numerous ways to configure the page you want. The frontpage module, for example, is designed to store HTML for display. You can do the same thing by putting HTML into a new 'page' that you create and then setting your homepage to be 'node/#' where # is the node id assigned ti your page,
You may find the following handbook pages helpful:
http://drupal.org/node/21951
http://drupal.org/node/43767
As for this thread, let's continue with the question: What do you want your front page to be?
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i figured out how drupal's front_page thingy works.
1. okay, that makes sense, thanks for explaining what you meant by "core"
2.no, i definitely want a mixed site. i have a main domain address www.mysite.com, my package includes
30 subdomains, 20 databases, 30 ftps, i want to use all of the them, i want to be able to use newsroom.mysite.com, health.mysite.com, ads.mysite.com, etc.... i want to use all 20 databases, not just
one. but i wont ask on all of that on this topic.
i tried to move the drupal files directly into the root directory, but i got a big fat crash, and had to move everything back, and cant figure what happened.
3. okay, i understand the basics now about how to name a frontpage and make html and what nodes are it reconizes paths like nodes, forum, etc, but not http: addresses. i made a second page, node/2 named it the "frontpage" for drupal. but i want the official frontpage of the site to be not the drupal frontpage, but the www.mysite.com domain name external page, not the www.mysite.com/drupal i have been trying for five of the last six days to figure it all out, i am exhausted and frustrated, i feel so close to doing what i need to do, but cant figure it out!
Hi Shelley, just to be
Hi Shelley,
just to be clear, you already have a page called index.html that lives in the root directory of www.mysite.com? And you want that to be completely separate from the Drupal site at www.mysite.com/drupal?
What is the $base_url setting in this chunk of code from your sites/default/settings.php file?
Does it read like the above ( $base_url = 'http://www.mysite.com/drupal'; ) ?
BINGO!!! LOL!
i took your advice from yesterday, moving the files out of the drupal subdirectory directly into the root directory and combined it with your advice from this morning and went into sites/default/settings.php and changed the line for the $base_url from 'http://www.mysite.com/drupal';
to 'http://www.mysite.com'; and voila! drupal's "frontpage" is now on www.mysite.com! finally! its about da*m time after 6 days! i knew it was something small.
thanks for sticking with me! i couldnt have done it without you!
i had move the files yesterday, but got a big "DONT DO THAT, ILLEGAL ACT!" or something like, and last week when i was installing i played with the putting the base url to www.mysite.com, but it wouldnt work without with the /drupal thingy at the end. but doing both was the ticket!
no, i wanted everything intergrated, i just figured after all this time drupal's "frontpage would forever be stuck in the drupal subdirectory. when i start to tell people about the site, i didnt want to point them to a subdirectory and i wanted a frontpage i could put flash and complex buttons on.
now, i want to get the subdomains onto the system, so i can do follow what this guy did, although the code on that page looks terrifying!
http://drupal.org/node/28162
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soooo.....next thing i have to do is put the subdomains in.
once i get the subdomain/categories into a readable navigation, i will be so
RELIEVED!!
you just dont know! and then, the pages/nodes into the categories, am i saying that right? then putting the modules in the correct places, then working on the theme-decoration, that looks scary, putting that smarty theme engine was very tricky, not sure i did it right, a few more bells and whistles and i will be ready start badgering my associates for content, hurray!
i am not sure, but i might use a separate html page for my calender, i really like that Vcalender program,
i want to be to add audio clips or flash pop ups, on the little day boxes so that when people click o but i will ask about that on another topic, i am babbling now...excuse me.
but my question to you is, should i drop this topic and start another topic on the forum about adding my subdomains? i have seen other post on subdomains, so i will try to see if it works on my, but its never quite the question i need answered. i am also going to start topics on databases and ftp accounts.
Glad to see everything
Glad to see everything worked. (I was travelling all day yesterday.)
Yes, I would close this and start a new thread. This one is very complex. It is easier for remote diagnosis if you limit posts to one topic at a time,
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ok
will do that, thanks again.