Before you start

When I upload files to drupal, I can not run install.php?
there is an error "Not Found
The requested document was not found on this server. "
If I enter a link / INDEx.txt on ok itself displayed instructions.

Please help

I need to make an auto parts store with kind of a short deadline... Im thinking drupal would be perfect for it but, really need some direction on how to organize the catalog and sorting as quick as possible before entering over 3000 items.

I been reading tutorials all day trying to wrap my head around a sound concept but, still nothing :(

Any help would be appreciated.

Good afternoon,

I'm in charge of the online infrastructure for a medium-sized university. Right now our (static) website gets around 200,000/300,000 visits a month, with 25,000 visits/day peaks. The website is running on a shared server without issues, mostly because it is a static website. Most of the visits come from students wanting to go to either the academic system or our moodle installation, both self-hosted in servers on-campus.

We are currently investigating switching our CMS to Drupal (preferably 7). I have been playing around with it a bit and found several, half baked ways of achieving what I want, but it strikes me a more knowledgeable person might know the "right" way to do it.

We have a large content base in the region of 10-12,000 pages across our two main site, plus around 20 additional sites with smaller number of pages in the range of 5 - 100. We have a large author base of around 120 authors who have very specific areas within the site that they can edit, and these edits are then processed through a workflow to a group of 7 web managers to approve. Within the context of thsi requirement we need a way of driving one over-arching, large, quite deep, hierarchical structure, but keeping the experience as simple as possible for the authors so that its not possible for them to end up publishing items to the wrong places in sites.

The closest I can find to achieving this is to have several content types defined, one for each type of author and allow these content types to only publish to specific menus, and then somehow combine this large number of menus into one large menu system to drive the navigation.

We have a current website that was built using Microsoft ASP.NET technologies along with a MS SQL database that contains sales data and customer information. We would like to stitch over to Drupal, but before we make the move I have a few questions just to make sure Drupal is the right choice.

Here is a brief overview of what we would like to achive in Drupal. We are a consignment store and our point of sale software uses a Microsoft SQL Database for all sales and customer information. We have dealers who come in and they bring items they would like to sale on consignment. They are then given a dealer number and this number is placed on all their items along with the price. When an item sells the dealer code and amount is recorded in our database. Below is what we would like to do with Drupal:

1. A new dealer signs up on our website with a user name and password along with the "dealer code" we assigned them.
2. Each evening after the store is closed the dealer signs into the web site with their user name and password and they can view their sales for the day based on their dealer code. Additionally, they will need the option to choose a date range of sales too.
3. We would like the dealer to be able to change any of their personal information at anytime too such as address, phone number, etc.

Need full-blown e-commerce site-- not quite Amazon, but towards that end of the functionality universe.