Post installation

1) I log in as an admin
2) I create a page
3) I attach a pdf to the page (file attachements)
4) I save and publish
5) I log out

If I go to the absolute path of the pdf file (in the sitename.com/files/filename.pdf) the file launches.

I should get "You tried to access a document for which you don't have privileges.".

If I go to the files directory, I get the proper message (sitename.com/files)

I noticed that the files directory has an .htaccess file, but it doesn't appear to block access to the individual file.

Any reason why these don't work.

i creatd a node for the default 404 (page not found).

i confirm it exists.

however, when i type a bogus path on my url string.. i'm NOT presented with my redefined 404 page. Instead, i always get a blank page with 'Primary Links' as the breadcrumb (at least i think it's a breadcrumb)

any ideas?

thanks

I want to have some additional settings in my installation configured as global variables in a multisite system. It looks to me like the General settings pages has some entries that appear in template pages as some kind of global variables.

Is there some a database or file that contains those entries, and can they be extended?

Will amending the settings module result in them being added to that list of globals?

I recently migrated my site from one server to another. Here's how:

1. Installed drupal on the new site, and verified having a viable, but empty, site.
2. Copied my modules, themes and files directories from the old site to the new one.
3. Imported the database from the old site onto the new one.

At this point, the new site works fine except for one thing: no images. Images don't show up anywhere, except for the few on the default theme. No images in blogs, forums, galleries, etc.

Any ideas what's wrong?

Thanks,
Monica

Every time i enable a module that creates a new node content type or adds content functionality to an existing node type, i have to go to:

admin/settings/content-types

and change the *default* options for

1) Workflow (disable promote to front page)
2) Comments (disable comments on Default comment setting:)

Hello all:

I'm trying to figure out how to have Drupal store files in a directory outside the web root. I'd like users to be able to access that directory via the OS as well, and move files around easily. (I know this has implications for getting out of synch with the database and I'm prepared to deal with them).