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Solution found - developing a drupal site and then making it live

I think I have seen people pose this question before, and I found a great solution that works for me so I thought I would post.

I currently have an old fashioned html web site, but would like to develop a new drupal driven, content managed, web site. How do you develop it without taking the other one down, or having to move the drupal version when it is ready to go live?

Here is my answer:

1. Installed Drupal into my public_html folder
(I have a hosting company that sports a pluggin called fantastico that makes installing drupal absolutely painless)

2. After the installation, my public_html folder had two index files: index.html (the old "home page") and index.php (the new drupal front page). You can imagine my horror when I realized that someone going to my site would get the new completely undeveloped page instead of index.html. I tried many things to get index.html to load by default, but no luck. Either I couldn't get it to work, or I did, but at the expense of breaking drupal. Finally I came up with this solution:

3. Install the "front page" module, which lets you specify a special front page, or entry page for your website. I set this to redirect to index.html, the old main page and voila, anyone going to my website will get that page instead! When I am ready to go live with drupal, I will just turn off that feature! Meanwhile I can log into drupal by just typing the full url to drupal.

Subdomain redirect?

Hello all,

My apologies in advance, as I'm not sure about the correct terminology. As such, this question may have already been answered. My problem lies with a brand new Drupal install on a subdomain with my webhost. The webhost runs cpanel, and allows for addon domains. The way I understand it, my addon domain is actually a subdomain, but it accessible as an individual domain through some DNS wizardry.

filters and forums

Trying to figure out a problem here...

I was playing around with different filters (specifically, "title", "freelinking", and "codefilter") and now it seems that no filter is applied in the forums (ie. not even the "line break converter").

So each post in the forum looks all run together. Regular pages, blogs and stories are fine (filters are applied). Only the forums have been affected.

Has anyone else seen this problem before?

I'm still trying to track down the problem, but if anyone has any insight, I would really appreciate it.

Organic Groups help please

I've serched the database over and over again and I can't find where a list of members/subscribers are stored for Organic Groups. I'm trying to print a user's groups (ones he's a subscriber of) in a custom block. Can anybody help?
Thank you!
Billy

[SOLVED] Querying the vocabulary/terms

I have set up a vocabulary called Section with various terms beneath it, each page has one of the terms assigned to it. I want to run a different bit of code depending on what term/page is currently being displayed. I'm not sure how I can access and query the terms. Any help would be much appreciated.

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