Post installation

I've just upgraded and everything went fine except that any themes I download don't seem to work. I have the right engine installed, but I get blank sidebars and no styling whenever I try to apply one of these themes. In trying to configure them further, I also keep getting a SAFE MODE restriction error. I get this same error when I go to administer-->settings. It also says I can't write to the .htaccess files in the /tmp and /files directories. I've got the permissions set correctly and I'm still getting this error.

Hi all,

How can I install a module such as Organic Groups ( http://drupal.org/project/og )?

Im having trouble with using Categories to sort content for a web-magazine.

Basically I have sections for content, which wouldn't make sense for a menu system to go below the top level (The navigation should be things like "Feature story, advice, editorial" and go down from there, not have containers or categories that create sub-levels of menus between the nav system and the content.)

Ive created one container for each content type, with category named the same thing and it doesnt want to sort anything during creation.

I'm using the Category Module package to create a a single container with 6 categories. Each category has 1-8 pages associated with it. What I'm trying to do is, when you're on a category page (or just a page within a category) I want to have a list of the pages within that category appear on a side navigation area. Each item in the list will link to that page. Has anyone tackled this before? The answer may be easy for some, but I've searched and come up with nothing thus far. Am I going about this the wrong way?

Ok... The documents suck. I think we all agree. Well, now. They don't actually suck, but there's a missing overview/general introduction. I'm going to try, and explain, as a Drupal newb (Linux since Slackware .89, or some such), but LAMP expert.

First, you need to know that Drupal does way more to help you than you think in making multiple sites work off a single installation. That's part of the problem with the docs. It's assumed you know this stuff. The key bit is that Drupal looks for sub-site subdirectories based on the inbound host/domain name, and uses the appropriate one, if found. You don't have to do anything other than set these things up so they work.

Second, you only need to set up the Apache virtual hosts to point at the Drupal installation we're talking about. Read the Apache docs on the VirtualHost, and ServerAlias directives. You may have to read up on DNS configurations to get your domain names to point at the proper IP. 99.9999999% of the time, when you register the domain name, you can take care of these both. In any case, it's probably going to be your service provider in a commercial environment, and your systems administrator in other environments. If you're administering your own box, or test box, like me, you may have some reading to do.

Let's assume you have Drupal working properly on an Apache site with a domain name of example.com. You'd better get this far before trying to get the multi-site thing going.