Installing Drupal

Hi all, I am rather new to the world of Drupal, and I love it!

I need some help though, I want to show a random image in a block, and I'd like to use a cgi script to do that. I have everything set up correctly, because I can visit the url with my browser no problem, but as soon as I put the folling line of text in the block, nothing happens.

<!--#exec cgi ="/cgi-bin/random.cgi"-->

Is cgi not permitted? Can I configure it so it is?

I am brand new to drupal, and fairly new to PhP in general. Can anyone point me to a "beginner's guide to drupal?"

My goal is to make a very simple blog, where perhaps half a dozen people can input new threads... Plain and simple! However, I don't know where to begin!

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Saeborne

Hello,

Perhaps I have missed this in the documentation, but is there a way to generate a sitewide RSS feed that mirrors the content on the front page? So far, I've only found RSS feeds for individual users' blogs.

Thanks,
Chris

Is there a way so that Anonymous users (who haven't logged in yet) can see the content on the page without seeing the details of the posters. I have it set so that anonymous users can only 'view content' and 'search content' but I don't want anonymous users to be able to access the profiles of existing users on the page without logging in first. Any ideas?

/Mike

Hi all,

So I enabled clean urls and wham! - just 404's.

I added this to the .htaccess:

AcceptPathInfo On

but it does not do the trick, can someone please tell me what to do?

Thanks!

I've just clean installed Drupal on a new server configuration. The server has (the most?) recent versions of PHP/MySQL and runs Apache 2.xx.

Here's my problem: when I activate the clean URL's, I get the common 404 not found error for the new URLs. I know this was discusses many times before, but I believe my problem has a twist.

1. mod_rewite is enabled on the server, I use rewrite rules for another domain.

2. The .htaccess file is NOT created, as I would expect it to be.