Post installation

The situation is - we want to incorporate a large, existing site with a lot of legacy file download links etc (bookmarked and hard-linked to from all over the place) into a Drupal document management system.

Sorry, Apache mod-rewrites are out of the question, and they'd totally confuse the later editors.

I've had some success with what I need to do to re-attach files to their appropriate Drupal nodes, but the first way of doing that for a site admin was to set the "File Directory" to "." - effectively allowing all the sites files to be available for attachment, and to allow admins to upload to various places. (I also built a 'save-as' plugin).
I've so far avoided making my own table or my own file-save methods by beating the existing upload.module into submission, (by lying to it, not by patching it) but I don't want to leave the 'files' directory as '.'
I don't want to build another alternative filemanager, like so many others have tried, I want to remain close to core.

I'm looking into (eventually) setting different base 'files' directories by roles, or by page type, or by alias path, (probably a bad idea) but all of them would like to know what the true path of a file is.

Currently, the 'files' table stores relative paths in the database, and these are rendered with the active file directory plugged on the front of it. This is why changing the files directory on a live site causes death.

If I put OG and all my groups as part of a custom menu (where ../og has a parent menu item and all the groups are under it ..menu_item/og/trade-standards), it becomes extraordinarily difficult to make this menu block display throughout the entire menu hierarchy when on the group pages.

This is because OG's current pathauto function fails and it is virtually impossible to put all the group node ids and the ids of each group post in the block visibility settings.

There is probably a way to do this with some code. Thanks in advance for any suggestions.

Please assist! I download Drupal (a second time) and it doesn't have the search.module! Where can I download it? D:

I can add the drupal feed to the aggregator (drupal.org/rss.xml) and it works just fine, but any other news feeds return an error:

warning: fsockopen(): unable to connect to ihatetobacco.blogspot.com:80 in /home/barbara11/domains/mydomain.us/public_html/myfolder/includes/common.inc on line 371.

I'd really appreciate any help in this area. Thanks.

Hi to all,

I am new to Drupal which seems to answer most if not all (with some coding) of my needs. I have however one major problem... My site needs to be available in french and english. I downloaded/installed and/or activated the locale, all the i18n and the translation modules and activated the multilingual support in content type. I also made french my default language. I found all the info in the handbooks and searching the archives.

Is there any way to add primary link while keeping MENU_LOCAL_TASK item in the tab?

In the search page(www.example.com/search), there are tabs labeled 'content' and 'users'.
I want to add 'search users' in the primary link and added an item with path 'search/user', then the 'users' tab in the search page disappeard.

It's possible to add the same path in 2 different menus(e.g. Primary and Navigation), but not to the tab menu?
Any solutions?