By dealmaker on

Hi,
I am new in Drupal and CMS, but I managed to get it installed and running without much hipcups. And I also installed the theme I liked without problem. So, not sure why people said that Drupal is hard to install or get it running.

But this maybe a stupid question. I am trying to create a top horizential menu with one of the items as "Home" which points to the homepage of my website. I think it's a good idea to use node instead of putting an url. But what's the node # of the homepage? There is no node # in the url when I go to my homepage.

Thanks.

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rszrama’s picture

rszrama commented

I believe by default the URL is just /node. This points to a listing of all the nodes that have been published with the option of "Promoted to Front Page." Alternatively, you can point the menu item to <front> so that it will use the site's default front page. Later on if you want to change, you need only change it in the settings and not in all the menus and other links.

bennybobw’s picture

bennybobw commented

Yes the default is "node." You can change it to a specific node by going to administer->settings->general settings and changing the field that says "Default Front Page"

soletrader’s picture

soletrader commented

What other options can I input besides node?

rszrama’s picture

rszrama commented

You can put in anything, really... you can use <front> or any drupal path (like node/1, forum, etc.). Let your imagination run wild.. ; )

Current project: http://www.ubercart.org

soletrader’s picture

soletrader commented

Where do I get a list of drupal paths?

rszrama’s picture

rszrama commented

It just depends on your site... anything that comes after the URL (if you have clean paths on) or anything after the ?q= if you don't. A Drupal path is really a variable that Drupal parses when serving up content. So, for example, the "Drupal path" for this page is node/86669. Look at the URL in your address bar to see what I mean. ; )

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Current project: http://www.ubercart.org

soletrader’s picture

soletrader commented

Here is my url: http://www.traderslaboratory.com/forums/

So I placed: forums/ in the default front page and got no changes. Am I missing something?

rszrama’s picture

rszrama commented

I'm not sure.. this doesn't even look like a Drupal site, but some sort of modded vBulletin. If that's the case, it could be any number of things...

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Current Drupal project: http://www.ubercart.org

soletrader’s picture

soletrader commented

What do you mean by a drupal site?

I just want to change the head phrase and I run vbulletin. This drupal thing is way too complicated for me. I am completely lost.

I can not bring a vbulletin homepage as the frontpage?

rszrama’s picture

rszrama commented

hehe Now I see the confusion here... you're looking for vBulletin help on the Drupal forum and expecting a) it to work and b) me to know that's what you meant. ; ) I'd look in vBulletin forums for the answer to your questions... I'm not sure how they handle front pages, but I'm sure it's possible. You can always get a .htaccess file to rewrite requests to www.yourdomain.com to www.yourdomain.com/forums/

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Current Drupal project: http://www.ubercart.org

soletrader’s picture

soletrader commented

Isnt this a drupal support forum? Why would I need to look in vb.org?