Post installation

Hi everyone,

I've installed Drupal, no prob...but now here's the hard part, how do I make Drupal to work in another subdomain (which will be for testing only)?

I use Cpanel and shared hosting with shell access + other features you come to expect from a good shared hosting provider.

I created a subdomain called beta.mymainsite.com. Now I have a folder in the root directory called beta. Its auto created when I created the subdomain using CPanel. Its empty...and according to the instructions below, it isnt used at all.

i have features enabled on my site such as private messages, personal contact form, and newsletters. there are check-buttons in the user preferences pages that must be set for these features to work, and i want them enabled for users from the moment they set up their accounts on, instead of having the users set them themselves. how can i change the default settings for a newly created user? thanks for the help.

-adam

We run a site with c.20-60 users on at any one time, usually about 15 will be authenticated users posting in the forums.

With page caching switched on, the cache table generates a lot of overhead, then crashes.

This can be fixed by either:

1. restarting mysql
2. restarting the server
3. uninstalling and reinstalling mysql due to unresolvable (for me at least) .sock errors.

Obviously this isn't ideal, and I'd like to work out a way to fix it properly. I've turned page caching off, but oddly my cache table after truncation is still growing to about 20mb in a 240mb or so database very quickly, and still generates overhead. I run repair on it every so often (also get quite a bit of overhead on sessions and watchdog as well), but at the moment am doing it manually since I'd rather not set up a cron to do it (have to learn how first anyway!) if I can fix it properly instead.

Using apache2/php5/mysql5 - vps hosting, 256mb ram, Drupal 4.7.3

Been reading through the following threads and the linked mailing list discussion and wondering if this is related: http://drupal.org/node/43336

http://drupal.org/node/42817

The questions I want to ask are these:

1. Is this a bug or an issue with myisam tables?
2. Is there something in my my.cnf I ought to be tweaking?

I've seen posts elsewhere about duplicate key errors, we've had those as well but I don't think that's the issue here since I understand those are only generated by page caching?

Drupal 4.7.2

This is very odd, I've never seen this before.

When ever I save either a Book Node or a Page Node as the title Brochures, I get a "Page not found error"

but if I edit the Node (calling it up for editing from admin>content) and name it anything else, then it works again - if I change it back to Brochuers, I get a "Page not found" again.

Example if I call it "Brochures2" it works

did a page called Brochures get saved wrong or something ?

Is there something I could do to clean this out?

thanks

the current content creation method is a bit too complicated for normal web user.. a lot of fields, multiple steps required to insert images(align, sizing, and etc).
I was wondering if is possible to customize something like this.
first page prompt for " enter article title" after click "next", a page will prompt for enter "main text body", then next page will prompt for any pictures to insert...and etc.

have anyone done it? thanks

I would like to create a content type that's formated differently. basically it has a title text field and a content text area but the css classes srounding them are different so that i can format them differently. is there an easy way to do that without developing a custom module?

Thanks in advance.