General discussion

OK, having been inspired by DrupalEd and DrupalBlog, I'm thinking about making a Drupal "distribution" for some of my clients who are interested in having a website sort of like mine. Basically, I don't feel like doing a totally clean installation, and then spending hours installing and configuring modules that I already have working great for me on my site.

Of course, I have more work to do with this, but I'm trying to figure out what the steps would be to make a basic "distribution," and by that I mean a Drupal installation with the extra modules installed, configured, and a basic taxonomy set up, along with a few themes, and some content in the form of a Book with instructions on Drupal use.

I'm *THINKING* that the process is to basically save my Drupal directory and all subdirectories from my webroot, and then export my MySQL database to a file.

Then for a new installation, I would copy the drupal directory to a new server's webroot, create a new empty Drupal databse and user, import the MySQL file I exported from before, alter the configuration files for the new host, domain name, database and database username/pw, and then if necessary, log into the new Drupal site and clear out most of the old content and users.

Is this basically the process, or is my understanding here completely out of whack? More detailed questions to come based on the answers I get here.

When I was checking my referrer logs I saw that.

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Any ideas? Anyone else seen that? Could it be a form of hack attempt. Because I have seen people trying to login as admin and trying mysite.com/admin.php and such!

Hello!

-I've noticed that, when a Story is broken up (or the break tag is manually added), it's not always clear to readers that there is more to the story. The "read more" link is not an obvious choice, especially for new users. Does anyone know of, or can anyone suggest, a modification to the Story break that would insert a link to the full story right into the text (i.e. "more..." as a link)? Anything along those lines would be great.

Thanks,
Dieter

Well, that´s it.
Besides that Plone seems to be far more difficult to install and use than Drupal... what are Drupal´s features that made you think it is better than Plone?

I´m asking this because I´ve been looking around and found that this "Plone" seems to be very similar than Drupal (I think that Drupal is prettier BTW ;-)

Anyway, I just wanted to know your opinion about this ;-)

Rosamunda

Hi,

There seems to be little difference between the Active and New Forums on the Drupal home page. There's too much repetition. Surely the space could be better used...

Marcus.

With the basic install, when a user clicks to "create content" they're provided options and descriptions. How I wish those descriptions could be modified.... such that instead of "blog", I could describe the node as "journal", or "class suggestion" instead of "story", etc. Just a couple of lines of text would be so very helpful in order to tailor drupal to needs of educators. Think that's possible for a rather new kid at all of this?