I just started to administer a site created in Drupal 6.17.

I understand how to add the page my client wants, but she wants it to be password protected. The protected_node module sounds as if it will do what I want. I downloaded it to my Windows computer, but do not understand how to make it active on the server.

Right now there is a menu bar across the top and down the left side. The top menu is limited in the number entries, but everything shows up on the left. How do I control what shows up in each location? Can I eliminate the left menu entirely to give more space for content?

The site author seems to have created several test sites. I see five SQL datbases: db1-4 and tester. I would guess only one is active, but I do not know how to determine which. Looking directly at the site structure (via FTP) I cannot even tell which folder contains the active site, vs the various test configuraitons.

So: I could a specific answer about the module installation and a pointer to a tutorial that might help with the other questions.

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joachim’s picture

joachim commented
Status: Active » Fixed

The main Drupal docs should get you started on how to install modules.

For your menu bars, look up the blocks system documentation.

> I would guess only one is active, but I do not know how to determine which.

See in sites/default/settings.php.

bobroosth’s picture

bobroosth commented

Got it. And a test site is working. The creator of the site says it is 'optimized' for 6.17. It bothers me that there a many un-applied updates, so I tried to apply a bunch -- and broke the site entirely.

What is involved in creating a clean, virgin (6.x) site,then adding the data from the production site? Including a custom theme?

joachim’s picture

joachim commented

> and broke the site entirely

Did you take a backup, or try the update on a test copy? If not, then your site is possibly damaged beyond automatic repair -- you'd need someone who knows how the DB works to manually fix it, and even that's a long shot.

bobroosth’s picture

bobroosth commented

No, I was working on the test site. Hosed it entirely. Re-copied the production site and re-applied my changes. I think I am going to pass on the updates right now. I am trying to get one feature working, without much success: we need to password protect a couple of pages. I tried the protected_node module. It is installed and appears to be working, except that I am never prompted for the password. And the page content is not displayed.

Now I am playing with an Apache/.htaccess protected page. Can't get that to prompt either....

Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

Automatically closed -- issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.