Before you start

I've been looking into Drupal/Mambo/Joomla for the best solution for me. I will be creating a site where different departments where I work will upload their own content and downloadable documents. I want to be able to setup a user group for each department and each group will only be able to add/change/delete content for their own department. It seemed as if the only effective way to do this with Mambo was to buy third party software. I've done some searching on this site but wanted to see if this ability is available in Drupal.

Thanks in advance-

Adam

I have Drupal 4.7 installed directly under public_html. I need to install Drupal 5.3 in a sub directory, separate mysql database and as a sub-domain like http://drupal53.mysite.com.

Can this be done. I will appreciate and pointers in the matter.

Thanks,
Gerry

I'm setting up about 10 community sites that will have different themes but otherwise will be identical - of course the content will be different but the content types, menus, views, etc. will be the same.

One administrator should be able to approve new content added to any of the sites from one central page (or view).

What is the best way to set this up? 1 database or multiple? how to set up different domain names? how to set up a view that queries all the data at once?

Thanks.

Hi,

I am a developer, so I am fairly proficient with PHP, XHTML and the rest, but I do not know anything about Drupal.
I want to build a fairly simple website for myself (my current version is static and has nor been updated for many many years) and I have a few specific requirements. I'll just list those ones about which I am not que4te clear how well Drupal will perform:

1. I will develop various specific extensions. So the CMS of my choice must have a code base and an API with a fairly shallow learning curve (under the assumption that I am proficient with PHP).

2. CMS I am familiar with (Redaxo, Typo3) have a possibility to have various blocks of content per page/article where each block has a different type. I will best provide an example to make clear what I mean as this is VERY important to me:

I turned on "post comments without approval" access control for all authenticated users. But all comments still need to be approved by administrator.

I already upgraded to the version 5.3. What's wrong? I asked around my friends who use drupal and they didn't have this error. How to debug further, could someone help me?

Thanks,

Cherry

Easy question: If you install Drupal to www.mysite.com is it easy to have all pages redirect to www.mysite.com/blog ?

I want my site address to be www.mysite.com/blog but for optimal functionality I assume it's best to have Drupal in the root folder. So what would you recommend, root folder or just install Drupal to a folder named "blog" ?