Post installation

For the record I am running OS X 10.4.7 on a powerbook G4. I have just installed Drupal 4.7 in my Sites Directory in my user folder (localhost). I am running apache 1.3 (I think), PHP 5.1.2 and mysql 4.1.14.

I am a newbie to Drupal and have just installed my first site. In doing so I followed the directions in the lullabot videocast on setting up Drupal. (By the way, the guys at lullabot are fantastic with all of the educational materials that they are putting out. Kudos to them!)

Everything went beautifully until I went to check my settings, only to find that the "files" directory was not created automatically. The videocast suggested that I should create the "files" directory manually which I did, within the finder. When I came back to the drupal admin>settings page it acknowledged
the addition of the "files" directory, however it gave me an error which read " The directory files is not writable ", which I assume happened
because I did not create the directory in the command line console (?). In any case, here I am stuck, not knowing how to address this problem. The videocast suggested that I should give the server write permissions , but gives no indications as to how to do so... Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated!!!

Since I am a designer (I can hear the groans now...)and not a programer, I am only vagely familiar with the command lines of the terminal interface, however I am really good at following explicit instructions.

hi,

i've also yet to work this out, and also have it displayed in the blocks ..

Seems like a glaring omission, I'm new to Drupal but I don't seem to have this worked out.

Like the commenting system, you can have it approved by administator first, but with forum posts, you can't?

Is the the case?

Can anyone tell me how to include an equivalent of a server side include in each content portion of a node.

I would like to include a signature paragraph to each page or group of pages that belong to a single taxonomy. Having it dynamically inserted would give me many more options.

Thanks
Ron

Hi all,
Is there a way for me to add a notification about site comments being moderated, and some time may pass untill they appear?
currently the post comments line says "Post new comment", and asks for some info. I want to add a line under that that says somthing like "Comments are moderated, it may take some time until your new comment shows".
could not find a solution in the documentation or forums.
thanks,
Udi.

Good morning,

I have a site of which I am the only user. No polls, no forum, no comments (but mine and they are scarce). I have Adsense and I keep logs to see the main points of traffic.

To make backups and upload/download dumps I have to use a dial connection (very slow).

I write new content some times in the local copy of my Drupal (4.7) site and sometimes in the server’s copy.

So, I would like to avoid uploading – downloading any unneeded table.

And my question is:

If this is a basicly static site with one user, which are the tables that you would dump to renew content that are pages of books and some comments (with taxonomy)?

Or (if answering that is too complex):

What are the tables that you seldom need to make that kind of uploading/downloading?

(I will keep scheduled backups of the whole thing just in case).