Drupal 8.x

Hello all,

I'm in the process of designing a new website and I would like your comments and bits of advice on some topics. The purpose of the website is to provide paid access to a certain set of applications (web-based, not yet developped, which gives us some freedom as to our choices). Moreover, we would like to post some news, give access to forums and ideally build a small community of people sharing a common profession.

Because of the latter requirements, I decided to go with Drupal (I'm familiar with it, although mainly having build small, simple, websites) which with all of its modules would most certainly cover all these needs. However, regarding the applications part, I was not keen on integrating them directly into drupal (as modules). The reasoning here is that I do not know how this project will go in the future, and if it goes better than planned, drupal might not remain the best option for my applications. Moreover, we might end up building something much more powerfull which will require more ressources (again only speaking only for the applications, all CMS-related tasks will still rely on drupal), maybe taking leverage of cloud-computing (EC2, S3, or similar)... Anyway, long story short, I want to make something that can be portable without recoding everything (using drupal forms is a no-go for instance), should we decide to expand.

Yesterday, I created a message board on our website and changed the privacy settings so that anonymous users could view and post comments on the message board. However, the message board page was not listed in the menu and someone would have to know the exact URL in order to post a comment.

About 3 or 4 hours later I went to the website and all it said was "This account has been suspended."

I called our tech guy and he said that the IP address of the site giving this message was 74.50.something.something and that was the address in the DNS A record. However, our site's hosting account said the server should be 184.something.something. So, he changed their DNS to that IP number, not knowing how it got changed to the 74 number.

The site is still not up.

We’re now getting this…

Forbidden
You don't have permission to access / on this server.
Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.
________________________________________
Apache Server at www.theparentingcenter.org Port 80

Another tech support guy responded with this email: "You are correct about where the A record should be pointing. I'm able to preview the dns change before it propagates across the web and it appears the site is experiencing a critical database issue. I am going to continue to search for a solution."

Hi

I just installed drupal on my hosting account.

I want to make a daily updated music blog.

Can anyone show me how to make it look like Newjams.net? (Post lists grouped by date)

Regards,

WebJuice

Hello,

I have a blog about my daugther.
What I need is that I can set on each page how many articles on that page are placed.

Can I do this with Drupal and if so, how can I do that ?

Roelof

Hi all - very experienced developer across lots of different platforms...but very used to doing things from scratch. So far, just a touch bewildered by a couple things in Drupal - but I am confident that I am dealing with a nasty case of user-error.

My Question: What does a dev have to do to remove the default title of a "Basic Page"?
In my case, anytime I make a basic page, I am prompted for :

a) A Title
b) A Content Body

I am wanting to convert an access database into a website, before I start work on a completely custom solution I am trying to determine if there is an existing platform that will work for what I am trying to do.

The database at the moment consists of 2 forms, one to input information (it's a type of collection tracking system), and one to use when you remove something from the collection.