Installing Drupal

Hi, I just downloaded drupal and its a great prog. Here is somethings i need. I want to create a page which have 6 RSS feeds(6 different sites) on the front page.

I want to have the site something like this http://www.samachar.com/

With news from news sites. Is there anyway i can do this by creating a theme?

I've been playing with drupal admin on the opencms website. It seems to me that I can create users, then add roles which control access to certain content (and update versus read). But, it seems to me, that if I enable role to view static pages for example, then any users that can view static pages can view ALL static pages.

In other words, if I grant page access, I can't stop the folks in sales from reading pages created by the folks in accounting? Do I have this right?

Thanks.

Hi,

how must Drupal (resp. Apache) be configured so that anonymous can view everything via http, but any other user will use the site via https?

Thanks, Ro.

Downloaded drupal-4.2.0.tgz to my pc running WINDOWS XP but WINZIP cannot extract the files.

error message:
"error reading header after processing 0 entries"

I've tried with winzip version 8.1 and also beta version 9.

Any alternatives to suggest?

Thanks!

After updating my PHP installation to close security holes, I can no longer log into my drupal installation (version 4.1). I queried the watchdog table in the database and it shows that a session is created, but I am bounced back to the front page. Has anyone else had compatability issues with the new version of PHP?

I've done a bit of searching here and can't find info on a problem I am having with the Events mod. When I select the Events link in the top menu, my calendar changes from the current month to December 1999. Hence, no events appear. Got any ideas?

I am running 4.2 on a MySQL db.