Installing Drupal

I set up my new drupal site today
http://sc.fastint.net/

At first there was a menu block (generated by drupal automatically) listing every section of my site, i.e. "Galleries", "Book".

However, after some experiments, the menu block disappeared...

Can anybody tells me why and how to re-activate this block?

I've searched about six or seven modules for clues, and the online doc - but no dice. I'm completely baffled how a Taxonomy Type is defined. I noticed the menu.module does not create a Taxonomy Type - so when you define a Menu structure, you select a taxonomy term to associate with that menu. No taxonomy type of "menu" exists. I know I can use a different type, and it shouldn't matter, but it still bothers me.

Does anyone have links to or can share some pointers on how the taxonomy types are defined? I also couldn't find the type definitions in the Database anywhere. TIA!

Hi!

Drupal 4.3.2/XTemplate

I'm trying to make logins/registrations usable without having to enable the login block. Putting a link to ?q=/user or to ?q=/user/login works, except that after logging in you end up at ?q=/user. How can I redirect back to the home page like when the login block is enabled. I've looked through user.module, but don't quite understand how/where $edit is being set. Is there another parameter I can pass with the link to indicate where they should redirect back to?

Thanks!

I've downloaded Drupal 4.3.1 to my local Win2k machine with newly installed Apache 2.0.48, MySQL 3.23.49 and php 4.3.4.

I have Drupal up and running and have been able to enter some test posts. I downloaded a couple of modules (bbcode and composition tips) have tried to install them. Logging in as admin I go to administer/configuration/modules but nothing appears on the screen except for the menu - and then only if the menu is set to appear on the left side of the screen. If I set the menu for the right everything disappears with the exception of the header.

I am trying to connec to my database using a socket /tmp/mysql.sock2 , since
the default socket /tmp/mysql.sock is being used by another database.

I have seen in some old post that for postgress you can do something like
taht to connecto through a socket:

I've create a Content Type vocabulary with terms like Static, Book, Book Page, Blog, etc. My goals were:

• to create several department front pages (my other vocabulary is Department) that each list everything except blogs
• to provides department-specific links to a particular content type, like all books in department XYZ

Now, the first goal was easy; I just told Drupal not to make the Department vocabulary available to blogs. But the I had to create the Content Type vocabulary to meet the second goal.