Before you start

Hi,
I install drupal 6.0 on my site, but i don't understand that how can i active the seo link. for exaple:
http://drupal.org/node/183754 >> i want convert link to http://drupal.org/Drupal-Tech-Talk-at-Google/

Our association has over 220 members with their own websites. We have a custom proprietary CMS which is getting difficult to stay current. While investigating open-source packages, I came across Drupal. I am very new to Drupal but have gone through various docs to see that it supports multi-site, for example but have the following questions

The current setup
We have 2 app servers running Java (dual xeons, 3 Gig RAM) and 2 db servers currently running oracle (dual opterons, 12 Gig RAM).
During the holiday period last year, we had just under 23,100,000 hits to all our websites combined and we expect this number to be higher but not significantly more.

The setup that we have is an e-commerce website with custom search and the ability for each of our member websites. Some sites get significantly more traffic than others. If we decide to go with Drupal, we expect there will be some custom modules and rewriting of certain features.

Questions
1. Does anyone have any similar setup?
2. We can buy a few more servers (may be 1-2) or add memory, but would that be too much for Drupal to handle? I would assume putting over 200 websites on a single Drupal install will be too much. We can split our members into different servers with different Drupal installs, but would that work?
3. How much memory does Drupal take for a similar website with that kind of traffic?

Hellow!

Help me to choose right platform for community site. I've created a scheme for structure - Community site (png, ~32kb).

Suggested platforms for now are Drupal and Wordpress. Since I have no experience with both of them, I need to decide which will be the best solution.

Can anyone look at the scheme and help me to decide.

Thanks in advance.

ps: if You will choose Drupal and have experience in it, please show me some suitable plugins.

I'm thinking about rebuilding our corporate intranet using Drupal. Currently it's using a more "traditional" CMS that isn't really designed for a secure site requiring user authentication. I've purchased the "Pro Drupal Development" book by Apress and have played a bit with an install - these are really revealing the power/extensibility of Drupal.

My concern is user authentication. The IT department has an Active Directory of all our users and I ideally want our intranet to use that same authentication. So, naturally, one would choose the LDAP module.

The problem becomes, IT doesn't want the intranet making changes to AD (except a handful of things like phone numbers, addresses and so on). So, my plan has been to create a top "layer" of authentication using LDAP and then using a MySQL database that syncs with AD on login (basically, their unique ID in AD gets an associated row in the MySQL table). Then, the MySQL database feeds all the necessary user info to any web application(s) that make up the intranet (and sessions would keep the user logged in, of course). I hope I explained that well enough.

Hi
i am using drupal 5.X version and ecommerce module,
I want to use manual Credit cart manual checking.

how can i do it please help me.
Thanks.
rohit Mishra

I don't understand. I created my mysql database and granted privileges and i point my browser to the url (im running it off of localhost/iis) 'localhost/drupal/' and I get a login prompt. I cant even begin to setup my installation. What's the deal? I don't see this covered anywhere in the manual.