Drupal 6.x

hello.

it's interesting how Ubuntu, my favourite Linux distribution, and Drupal, the best and most popular cms platform, have new releases coming out at the same time.

it's worth noting that ubuntu uses drupal to run it's main site, www.ubuntu.com and it's news site The Fridge.

Drupal 6 comes with a DB schema, which makes it possible now to programmatically draw a graph of the relationships among the tables.

Is it possible for someone to give some technical and software information on the setup used to produce drupal.org

i.e what os do you guys use on the webservers and database.?

What version PHP do you use or recommend ?

What version MySQL do you use or recommend ?

What machines, spec , how many - do you use ?

What load balancing system do you use ?

This would really help in learning how to use drupal for large traffic sites that need it to work 100% of the time !!.

thanks in reply,

M

Mac OS X 10.4.10
PHP 5.2.1
MySQL 5.1

I've been working on my localhost with Drupal 5.1 successfully; I get the above error message during the installation process on Drupal 6 beta. The MySQL socket on my local server (which is working fine) is '/var/mysql/mysql.sock'; the installation is looking for '/tmp/mysql.sock' and fails, generating the Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/tmp/mysql.sock' error message.

Okay so I have a question.

Suppose I have a MENU_CALLBACK that is intended to be called via an Ajax call from client side JavaScript. Using Drupal 6.x's new menu system, how can I ensure that only the html/data produced by my callback is the only thing sent back to the browser after a request from the browser has been processed server side? It looks like I have to print the output myself from my callback, and then exit() from Drupal.

Is there a test site where we can play with Drupal 6 to see what it looks like? I'm holding off going live with the my 5.3 site until 6, and just want to see if I should just wait to go live, or put my effort into the version I have.

Thanks!