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Hi,
I want to ask you if hosting with MySQL 3.23.58 is good for Drupal.
I mean if there will not be any problems with unicode, etc...

Thanks

D.Rama

Hi all,

I'm seriuously considering using Drupal for a new site I'm developing and before I spend too much time on this, I thought I'd ask here first.

Is it possible to have 2 separate things run on a single page without too much hassle?

Eg: 2 content columns with a blog running on the right and a forum on the left?

I hope that makes sense.

I know I could probably do it by pulling in one or the other with a PHP Include and style everything with CSS, but I'd like a less "Red Green'd" solution if you get my drift.

Paul

Hi =)

I'm wondering how to install Drupal on my server, so that I can host several different sites sharing the same codebase and the same user-database. I'm sure this can be done, but how...

Thanks for your advice!

Andreas

I have a website project coming up for a client of mine, and I've decided to try out Drupal on it. It will be both my and my client's first time using the software. I'm wondering, however, if I shouldn't just wait until the 5.0 release. Is it going to be that much different from the current 4.7 release? Would upgrading be easy, or is it different enough to warrant a fresh install? Will I or my client have to re-learn this software entirely, or will it be mostly similar?

(Note: Sorry that this post is long because I will try to explain my problem as clear as possible)

primer: i was looking for a very reasonable 10gb webhosting solution not charging for bandwith. i did not want a dedicated server solution because they're expensive and i am an "end user" in terms of server maintenance. i found a cheap but reliable shared-hosting solution but they only have 1gb, 2gb, and 4gb solutions and are not willing to configure a 10gb hosting for me.

case: so i thought, i can apply for 3 accounts with them. 1st account will be 2gb, 2nd and 3rd accounts will be 4gb each and telling them to have the 3 accounts on the same machine. this means i will be having three different domains pointing to 3 different directories. (side note: i am willing to do this because the 10gb/unlimited bandwith shared-hosting solution will only cost me $15/12€ a month)

there will be 1 service (to be referred as the mainsite which is actually the 3 sites/host-accounts are in) the service will be an a-la myspace service.

account 1 as the main site with the drupal core

unixpath: /customers/example.com/example.com/httpd.www/
tld name: example.com
storage : 2 gigabytes

account 2 as file storage for user media uploads (ie. videos, pics, and music)

unixpath: /customers/abcdef.com/abcdef.com/httpd.www/
tld name: abcdef.com
storage : 4 gigabytes

account 3 where the mysql database for the service is

unixpath: /customers/1234567.com/1234567.com/httpd.www/
tld name: 1234567.com
storage : 4 gigabytes

I'm looking at the possibility of using Drupal for a company Intranet (please note - Google is no good to me). I have some knowledge of Drupal already, but I am somewhat concerned about the search capabilities. Here is what I need to be able to do:

• The site is basically a DMS intended to allow about 1-2000 users easy online access to 14,000 documents (Word, Excel, Powerpoint, PDF, possibly moving to OpenOffice support later), rising to 50,000 documents in the next year or two. Can Drupal handle this from the performance viewpoint?
• Each document is accompanied by a substantial amount of metadata. At the moment, it looks to me like I would have to configure the metadata in Flexinode or CCK
• The documents will be classified and users able to search by category, or by search
• It must be possible to search via metadata fields or by fulltext search in the document file itself
• I want to be able to export a complete "tree" of data (eg select a category and exportall the documents (metadata and document file) to an offline web page(s)

So here are my questions:

• Can Drupal handle the volumes from the performance viewpoint?
• Can the search engine or a module search the metadata (ie does it support searching on particular CCK fields)?
• Can the search engine or a module do fulltext search on the document files themselves?