Before you start

I have a site that has been around almost 15 years in some form or fashion as a static html site. I want to upgrade to drupal for the site's 15th birthday.

The site is hosted on an Apache Unix web server with all the bells and whistles, even allows drupal 6.14 in Fantastico, so the hosting company is up to date with all the goodies I need.

I have drupal installed in a subdirectory so there is no conflict with the existing site while I work on the design of the new site, although eventually I want to direct users to the new site rather than the old and I can't figure out how to do that.

Currently I have the existing site at http://www.example.com/index.htm (all files for the current site are in a single subdirectory) and the new drupal site at http://www.example.com/drupal1/index.php.

Given these articles (http://drupal.org/node/521440 & http://drupal.org/node/163486) I modified the .htaccess files and the settings.php file to show the drupal site as http://www.example.com, but that killed the existing site entirely.

I would like to keep the existing static html site for times when site maintenance is done, and I need to keep some of the static pages around for a while and link to them via drupal, so I'd like to keep my drupal install in a sub directory.

I'm considering using Drupal, but have a couple of specific questions that I am having difficulty finding answers to just by searching.

1 - Is there a facility or method to share variables / data between modules?
2 - Are there any modules to do fairly complex filtering, i.e - if I had a page displaying a list of laptops I would like to be able to display on the criteria of - Acer laptops, with a 15" screen, intel processor and sort by newest first.

Thanks for any advice.

Stewart

Hi everybody,

I've read a lot Drupal and high traffic... Some consider it's all about optimization, caching and server architecture. The others think Drupal is not the right way.

But I can't really understand what means "high traffic". What is for you a high traffic website ?
Can Drupal deal with the following ?

Hello everyone,

I'm one of the web developers of our company's Social Club, and we are currently looking for a potent PHP/MySQL solution to re-factor our current Social Club intranet Website. We are wondering if Drupal would be viable, and we would need your help to define that.

The current website allows members to register for Social Club events and activities of different kind, ranging from simple Movie Theater events (just buy a ticket) to complex Christmas Party events (table reservation with table captains and guests, hotel room reservation, multiple location choices, etc...). The registration process is currently done using a wizard-like interface with multiple steps and sometimes complex entry forms (using AJAX and JavaScript intensively). It also allows for the event organizers to validate payments, export lists of registrants and send confirmation emails. Members authenticate using the enterprise's LDAP directory, which we also use to pull extra info and extended member attributes (such as application permissions and personal details).

Hi All

I`ve been running a website for about 4 years, starting with no knowledge of html up to the point where I`m still scratching my head at the complexity of it all.
Anyway, the site uses html frames which seemed a good idea at the time but now its looking dated and needs to be brought into the 21st century so i`m looking for perhaps a CMS to re-do the site. Its here if you want to have a look http://www.cambags.com

I thought I'd start a place to itemize what to avoid in Drupal 6 that might cause extra headache when it comes time to upgrade our applications to Drupal 7.