Installing Drupal

Hi,

I'd like my drupal's (4.2) site front page to be something like : http://mysite/?q=taxonomy/view/or/11.
In the admin panel, I set the default front page to taxonomy/view/or/11, but this doesn't seem to work. (Clean URLs disabled)
What am I doing something wrong ?

Thanks in advance for your answers.
Samuel.

Hi:

Can anybody tell me how I can a file to a blog or a static page? I am deploying drupal for our intranet. So far, it satisfies all our needs.

I checked out filestore also, but it is not what we need. I think something like image module, but for files is what we need. Can anybody tell me if there is such a module?

Thanks,
Rama

I'm investigating the use of drupal as the bulletin board for our school, and I would like a better understanding of the role/use of forums in such a site. As far as I can tell, the main (only?) effect of forums is to create an extra level of hierarchy in the site. ie, within a given forum, i can create a new forum topic within which users can post stories. But it seems I can do the same thing by creating an extra level of the taxonomy. Why are these treated/presented differently? And what criteria should I use to decide which of these options to select?

Hi all! Sorry to be such the n00b, but I've never worked with any database program before, including MySQL, and I'm having a bit of trouble at Step 3 of the Installation guide, "LOAD THE DRUPAL DATABASE SCHEME." The documentation says, "Once you have a database, you must load the required tables:
$ mysql -u nobody -p drupal < database/database.mysql"

hi

every now and then (usually when adding new feeds or when a syndicated newsfeed is down), my cron job wont run.

when i do a lynx manually i get

Looking up willy.boerland.com
willy.boerland.com
Making HTTP connection to willy.boerland.com
Sending HTTP request.
HTTP request sent; waiting for response.
Alert!: Unexpected network read error; connection aborted.
Can't Access `http://willy.boerland.com/myblog/thecronfile.php'
Alert!: Unable to access document.

nothing in the watchdog messages, nothing in the error log of apache.

when if update the pending newslink by hand (surfing towards admin page and select update) all feeds are syndicated without problems. from what i understand cron first goed to the cload (these are all in order) and then to the feed. somehow this doesnt make it.

any one able to help?

tia

I made a drupal site.
After submitting a topic, users can't edit their own topic. I couldn't find 'edit forum topic' when I log in as a common user. I checked Permission configuration but I can't make it. Forum doesn't support editing permission for common users?

Do I have to modify forum.module? Let me know the solution.

Thanks~