Post installation

Ok, I posted in the installation forum, but I think this may be better suited here since drupal itself is installed and appears to be working fine.

I can't seem to install any modules. Some will seem to install, but the database tables are not being created automatically. Some have appeared to install, but when I try to use them, I get some strange errors.

I noticed that I need the views module installed to get some of these modules to work, and I didn't do that yet. So that is the one I am picking as a test bed for some help... Keep in mind, I have tried Gallery, Categories, Events, and Flexinode, all without any success. Database tables are never created. For events, I stipped out the code in the .Install file and did it that way, but still got an error when trying to use it (I think cause Views isn't installed)...

I am on a CPanel X host, if that makes a difference.

I have the views-4.7 tar.gz in the modules folder, and I use the cpanel file manager to extract.

I then go to the modules page in Drupal.

I check the 4 views modules and click save.

I get this error at the top:
user error: Table 'bwshutt_drupal.view_view' doesn't exist
query: SELECT * FROM view_view WHERE page = 1 in /home/bwshutt/public_html/drupal/includes/database.mysql.inc on line 66.

I check the database using phpMyAdmin and the tables do not exist. The user account does have ALL privs on that database. I can use that user account in phpMyAdmin to create tables.

Is there a way to not have content published to the home page be shortened, requiring users to click on the content title to see the whole page/article/book page?

If not, is there a way to add a "read more" link at the bottom of each summary?

Hi all,
I have a client that wishes to have the forums displayed in reverse order. I can get the posts to do so with the setting in admin->comment->settings, but the original Comment is still at the top of the topics. They want to move that to the bottom, but I am having a heck of a time finding out where to change this. I have been looking through the code trying to find where it is governed, but with no luck.

Anyone have any pointers?

Thanks.

Hello all.

I have a nodetype which I always want in the category outline, so I was wondering if there was a way to make it so that nodetype is automatically added instead of always having to click the category tab and then add the outline. Ideally this would also add the outline with the proper parents by default.

Hi again everyone. I'm running the webserver_auth module and I would like to retrieve user roles from active directory, but I see no way to configure or for that matter do anything with it. I can log in as an authuser, but Ideally I would like roles to be automatic as our business has hundreds of users which I don't look forward to role editing.

First sorry for my english...

Just new to Drupal, played a lot with taxonomy, modules...

Here are the noob questions :

- I have News category(vocabulary) with subcats(terms), Subnews1, Subnews2 and so on... What do I need to do if I want the Stories in Subnews1 to be published also in News parent category? Must I assign those stories to category News1 and Subnews1 ??

- What if I want a particular block on top (Above content) of Subnews1 page, another on top of Subnews2, News and other page ?? What trick, snippet or module(s) should I use ???