Post installation

Ok I’ve never done this before, so I am panicking a bit. I’m not moving right now, but very soon.

I need advice first.

I usually back up my drupal in cPanel back up.

So how do I move my drupal from one host to another?

What is the process, do I create a new database once I’m there? Insert tables, etc just like I did when installing drupal?

Or I don’t need to do those anymore?

Do just I restore via the cPanel back up (I prefer to restore via cPanel backUp), and thats it? (I wish!)

Hi!

Is there a way to disable search tables? I´m not using drupal search features and my database is too big mainly because of that tables. Is it enough to disabling search.module?

Thanks

I have seen many posts here from people trying to change the logo and not being able to. So I thought that I would give some handy notes here.

These notes are for MULTISITE Drupal installations. We will call our site example.com in these notes. Also, I use Linux so these notes are for Linux.

First, make sure that you have a logo-sized image. Use PNG if you can because it's license-free.

Next, ensure that you create a directory under /sites/example.com/ to store images in. We do this under your site's directory because, of course, you do NOT want to contaminate other sites!
I called mine "images".

Ensure that you chown the directory so that your web server software (apache) either owns it or is in the group for access then chmod 770 the directory. I keep all my directories owned by my Drupal master account with apache as the group. So as root I "chmod . images".

Now copy your logo into this directory. Again, ensure that you chown and chmod the file so that apache can read it!

Now in your admin acct for your Drupal site (example.com), go to administer/themes/blumarine
Check that you have bluemarine enabled and your default theme (if you want it as your default theme of course).
Now click on "configure".
Under "ologo image settings", unset "use default.
Now this is the important part. This theme needs the full *relative* path of the logo file put into "Path to custom logo". The path is relative to the Drupal root directory on your server AND must not start with a leading slash. So in my case, this is:

How can I post variables to the node/add page so that it prepopulates the lat/lon of location-enabled nodes?

The URL structure below does not work when using the video and location modules, but my custom module is able to have variables posted in the first format.

Evening all -

I recently (last week) found out about Drupal, and am currently beta-testing it to replace my personal website (www.hargest.com)... The beta/dev version is located at www.hargest.com/drupal ... Prior to finding drupal, I'd been using MS-Frontpage to manage the few static pages I have on the site, phpBB for discussion forums, and Gallery2 for my fairly large (+4k pics) photo galleries. After finding Drupal and realizing that it could more than meet my needs in one cohesive look-and-feel package for users, I started exploring what it (and various modules) could do... To say that I'm amazed is a SERIOUS understatement.

The purpose(s) of my site are mainly personal in nature, with the following major user interests / areas:
- Family Genealogy
- Showcasing photo galleries
- Personal blogs
- Discussion forums
- News RSS Feeds
- Networking with my Gay and Lesbian co-workers

I've been searching the forums and am a bit befuddled. My question is thus...

I'd like to be able to restrict access to content, as not all users need access to all content. My understanding, from reading, and PLEASE correct me if I'm wrong (and I probably am) is:

1. - Create categories / vocabulary
2. - Create access control / roles
3. - Assign users to roles
4. - Assign content to roles / categories

Am I on the right track? I've got the following modules installed on my site (I just enabled the Drupal module this evening, so I don't know when it'll sync with drupal.org):

I'm converting my home page from Postnuke to Drupal and would like to use the Blue Bar theme. One thing I need to get the theme to do that I just cant figure out.

When using the Gallery2 module, is there a to have it use the entire container? The container has the content column and the right sidebar column in it. Right now Gallery2 only uses the content column and the right sidebar is still present with the navigation menus in it.

Any thoughts on how I could achieve this? Any and all help would be greatly appreciated.

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