Before you start

I'd been researching CMSs for a literary site that--for various reasons--needs to be up within the next several weeks. I've been holding off and waiting for 4.7 to come out until now, but I'm beginning to wonder if the beta might actually work for my needs until the final release is, well, released.

Essentially, all I absolutely require to launch is ability to post stories, some sort of taxonomy-based menu (so I suppose I'd be using the Categories module beta), and the Organic Groups functionality. So far I've got all of the above working on my test site.

Here we go again with the multi-sites. I have read the install and the search and the multi-sites entries in the forums, and I am not clear. Most of them talk about sub-domains.

I have:

1. Drupal 4.6.5
2. 2 Separate websites: abc.com and xyz.com
3. I want 2 separate databases.
4. Only 1 instance of Drupal and 1 install of MySQL
5. I don't care if they have to have the same modules or not. I could live with the sames modules.

Do I need A?

I have downloaded and successfully installed Drupal and several modules on a test site and I am truly impressed so far.

What I am trying to accomplish is a community travel site where I (as administrator) can add users, and each will have their own website (and mysql db) where they can post travel journals, photo albums, and have an anonymous (and moderated) guestbook. I would also like their home page to have specific profile information.

Example of intended site structure:

Main Page: www.mysite.com
User 1: www.mysite.com/user001
User 2: www.mysite.com/user002

I think I am able to figure out how a majority of this will work for individual pages (Drupal makes this quite easy for a novice), but my issue is trying to come up with an Index of users on the main page.

What I would ultimately like, is a way to Index user profiles on the www.mysite.com that will update from custom fields in the user profile. (Or maybe even from a flexinode?) So that each user can make a change to their profile, or flexinode, and the list index will change accordingly. (Users can change where they are listed by Category and Sub-Category)

Example:

• Category 1
  • Sub-Category 1
    • User Pages
  • Sub-Category 2
    • User Pages

Hi,

I'm about to begin putting together what I hope will turn into a grass roots sort of community site. I have a modest familiarity with Drupal strictly from an enduser perspective. I read documentation fairly well, so I don't think what I want to do will be prohibitively difficult. I've got time. Still, if I'm about to set out on a fool's journey, I'd appreciate someone slowing me down so I don't hurt myself too badly.

What I want to do is develope my site on my PC which is running Slackware-10.2 with Apache, MySQL and PHP (4 something). I then want to rsync the project to my web host which is running some flavor of Linux with all the tools I mentioned before. I've guessed that the only potentially tricky part will be backing up the database on my machine and transferring it (installing it?) to my host's server. I intend to theme the site, then experiment with modules. When it's ready to go live, I plan to figure out the backup-transfer MySQL thing. From reading posts I gather transfers can be problematic, especially moving from one set of tools to another. From my point of view what I need to do sounds very straightfoward.

That's basically it. Oh, and I thought I'd use 4.7. Makes sense to me to learn on the up and coming vs. the outgoing. If I'm overlooking potential landmines, be they glaring or otherwise, I'd appreciate a hint.

Thanks,

Chubby

BTW, I read a post recently where the poster portrayed WordPress documentation favorably compared to Drupal's.

Hello,

I've had a look through the "is Drupal right for me docs" but still have a few questions.

I'm looking for a robust and reliable cms that ideally has all of these:

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