Post installation

Does anybody know if the settings.php or the mysqldump backup of drupal db files that live on a fully functional drupal site on a windows system need any special attention when copied to a linux server?

In particular, I've heard that windows and linux handle carriage return/linefeeds differently.

And after scouring this forum, I'm wondering if my mysqldump on windows isn't dumping correctly or is missing something when it's imported back on the linux server that mysql needs to work properly with drupal.

I ask because for some reason, a perfect drupal/site setup on windows isn't working correctly when copied / recreated to linux.

I can directly and manually log in to mysql on linux with drupal user accounts (e.g. for instance using the user/password combo that exists in my settings.php). But when i try to login in with a drupal user from my drupal site, it doesn't seem to recognize my drupal users. I've verified that they exist - e.g. i can see them when i do direct SELECT statments on the user table in my drupal db?

1) Are there special dump parameters i need to be using?

2) I've read some prior posts about collation and character sets but they were less than clear as to the exact nature of the problem and how to fix them?

3) Is my settings.php not being read correctly because it was initially edited on a windows box and now lives on linux?

Hi,

I've just installed Drupal 5.1 but I can't seem to be able to add a contact form. At admin/build/contact there aren't any options for me to add the form. Any ideas what i'm missing?

Thanks in advance.

I have been playing around with my site for quite some time now and have found that there are a few things that aren't accessible even though you can have access to all nodes. I was wondering then is there a way you can make more than one superuser or even make a field for superusers like they have for anonymous or authenticated ones. The reason why is my site is going to have several main admins and I want them to have overall access to the site without them having to log into the same user but their own.

For the blog summaries, how does one go about moving the 'Read More' link so that it shows up right after the last sentence in the summary instead of further down below where it gets lost in and amongst all of the taxonomy terms?

I saw an article about this once, but no amount of searching has turned it up again.

Thanks!

I would like to have a menu item (a node, I guess?) which shows all posts between 2000 and 2005, in reverse chronological order.. Is there a way to do this? I didn't see any modules that seemed to fit the bill. I'm very new to Drupal, so please correct my approach if there is a better way to do this.

I am in Drupal 4.7.6 because some of the modules I needed to import my previous websites' data is not in 5.x yet. Anyway, I have imported all of my LiveJournal posts, and I would like a way to give each of them the same category. I've looked and can't seem to find any modules to do this. Any ideas?