Post installation

Hi,
I am new to Drupal, but quite impressed by it and its possibilities.
I have not yet figured out how to do some things, though. May be I could get some help.

1. If I create a page and I want it to be the index page of the site, how/where exactly do I set it? I currently have it under "Primary Links" and in such a form "node/1, which is however the wrong place.

2. I want the content of the index page to stay fixed, ie. I dont want the newly added material to be appended to it like is currently the case. I want the newly posted stuff, etc, though to be accessible under a separate link. Is it possible and if so, how do I realize it?

3. I enabled the Site search function but discovered it could not find any results. After I did some research, I found some texts referring to a step involving Cronjobs => http://drupal.org/handbook/modules/search

The problem is it's not explained for newbies how exactly one can run a cronjob in connection to this search and for what reason. Could someone kindly explain and if possible give any code that I could possibly use, to make the search function start working?

4. Lastly, I want the site I am creating to allow readers/visitors to submit 2 categories of material.
a.(i) Links of general interest and (ii) also to a section of the website which should be a form of web directory, with links under different categories.
b. Articles, like cookery recipes if possible using a form and getting them organized in categories in a way they can easily be accessed.

I was wondering if anyone knows the code (and where to put it) for opening the doc/pdf/xls etc. documents in their own new window in fileshare? I'm not sure what files need editing so any help would be great.

I've installed and activated the good "Project module", but I cannot get it working :(

my problems:

1. when i try to upload a release, the module don't do it. No new file in my /files directory, but the (failed) release is linked in releases list as it is in root / directory (obviously a 404 error if i click on it)

2. how to delete a release, for example one uploaded by mistake?

3. how "scan for releases" link in administer/settings/project menu works?

thanks to everyone who'll help me...im getting really crazy today :(

gabrio

I have the Amazon Tools module installed and it is working very well. One of the things that it does is add an 'amazon.com' tab to the search page. I don't really want my users to search amazon via our site, so I'd like to disable the tab, but I can't seem to see where this gets created.

How do you remove tabs from the search page? Where in the amazon tools module would I need to look?

Thanks

Could anyone provide some insight as to what might be happening here:

http://www.brownnoiseunit.com/

No matter what link I click on, I get the front page only even thought the URL indicates all is well. And therefore, I can't actually login anymore (to see logs etc).

I am at a loss since this has happened without me actually changing the site code at all! Everything has been working great until today...

Suggestions? I suppose I should try to get to the logs via an sql query?

Hi. I have created a view (using the event_view module) which has the property "Event: start date is greater than now". I have pasted an Export of this view at the end.

I have run this on two environments, test and production. The test one works - i.e. displays the events you would expect. The production one doesn't - i.e. displays no events.

Both environments are running the same Drupal install (Drupal 4.7.3, event v 1.183.2.8, event_views v 1.8.2.6, views v 1.159 i.e. all current downloads for Drupal 4.7)

My test PC is: Windows XP SP2, Apache 2.0.55, My SQL 4.1.18-nt, PHP 4.4.2

My Production system is hosted by QiQ and is the following: Apache ??? (can't see this anywhere) MySQL 5.0.24, PHP 4.3.11

The example of this happening is at http://www.hallamshireacademyoftennis.co.uk/eventview.

I'm guessing that this is to do with the environment, and most probably to do with MySQL 5. I'm not very knowledgeable about this stuff, so I was wondering if anyone could suggest things I should be looking at. I have searched everywhere and can't fin anything, and I'm going to try and build a test server with MySQL 5 to see what happens. I'll post what happens. If anyone can help speed this up with some insight that would be massively appreciated.

Thanks

Chris


$view = new stdClass();
$view->name = 'eventview';
$view->description = '';
$view->access = array (