Before you start

Didn't know where I should post this but I thought someone here would have experiance with this..

I'm starting to put some thoughts down on paper about running a community website for the area where I live. The website will be focused on events, people, shops and services available to the community. Now whilst I think this is a good idea for everyone I certainly don't have the time to run something like this 24/7 so I'm looking for an opensource Portal/CMS solution that I can get responsible people to help me run; or atleast look after sections. Is Drupal an option?

I've not really thought out all the requirements yet but initially I'm looking for;

- Secure and Stable (OpenSource) Portal/CMS solution - the site will be non-profit making
- Easy to administer, and have good delegation of administration (ie. for sections of the site)
- Easy to use for authors/contributers
- Customisable external look and feel (to make it simple for the visitors)
- Aggregation of posts/content for main site page and subsequent sections within the site (ie. village or county based)
- Good support and forums
- Blocks/modules/code snippets to support additional functionality (gallery, mail, advertising, forums, etc..)
- Single Sign on capabilities (1 password for all services)

That's all I think of at the moment, I'd appreciate any thoughts from anyone who has experiance from running something like this. Perhaps an example site like this running on Drupal.

/home/ftp/512j.com/m/u/d/mudans/see/includes/database.mysql.inc line 66 ： Access denied for user: 'mudans_db@%' to database 'mudans_db' query: LOCK TABLES sequences WRITE

what is it?
how can i fix it?

A friend of mine is considering using Drupal on a site for a group she's active in, and came to me with a problem. Her chief requirement is that she wants to operate a loose directory of her users - that is, for example, to be able to identify all the users on the site who have identifed themselves as being into bungee-jumping.

The first thing I thought of was a folksonomy/tag-based system of identifying users, but no specific way of implementing it came to mind. Can anyone here think of a simple way to do this, or have you done it before? Am I missing a much easier approach?

How do I knobble the email requirement prior to initial setup.
I am running a wamp installation, but don't have a mail server installed, and don't fancy having to locate and install one on this comp.
All I want to do is setup, test, and if easy enough to operate, may use it for a (real)community site.

TIA

Hi,

I'm looking to develop a multi user fitness training diary. Drupal looks like the solution for me but I have a few specifics that I want it to do (or hope its able to do)

Firstly, multi user blogs. I want to create a training category that will have lots of sub categories for my users to keep training diairies

For example,

training diaries
--->user A's diary
--->user B's diary
--->user C's diary

How easy is this to automate as I don't want to create a subdirectory for each user when they sign up.

My hosting service supports PHP5, but they say it "*ONLY WORKS WITH PHP-CGI*". I'm not exactly sure what that means and probably don't need to, but should that factor determine whether I install 4.5 or 4.6? I don't need multi-site support, which SEEMS to be the biggest change between the two versions but I'd prefer not to run into an upgrade issue soon after installation if I'd be better off with 4.6.