Post installation

The discussion under /issues about access permissions for attachments (http://drupal.org/node/10441) stopped a while ago.

Is the patch (two versions) provided in that node still necessary to make attachments in stories and pages visible to annonymous users, or (being very new to Drupal) is there some option in the Administration that I have missed?

If the patch is indeed still necessary, how am I meant to apply it? (I'm new to PHP as well as Drupal, so any/all guidance will be appreciated).

Why do LONG links expand the page to the right? Its messing up the web page layout and I can't see anything wrong in the code. Infact... for testing purposes, all I put on the page is the link (say a google link) and the page gets messed up.

Any ideas?

Thanks for your help!

I tried the Sunflower theme on my site and for some reason now the Bluemarine theme I was using is broken. I have no idea what went wrong.

The problem is that now with Bluemarine I see no primary/secondary links, no site footer, and all blocks are in the left sidebar instead of the right sidebar (which is what is stored in the database!). My logo and my site name isn't displayed either.

If I use another theme, such as Goofy, then all these elements show up in the right locations. (but I cannot use Goofy on my site because of other reasons).

So, after seeing these problems I tried this solution:

- I renamed the Drupal directory from portal to portal-problem.
- I downloaded Drupal 4.5.2 again and uncompressed it in the portal directory. So I started with a completely fresh copy of Drupal.
- I customised the conf.php and I copied all files from portal-problem/files to portal/files. Then I copied the two custom modules I was using (feedback and excerpt). Only that, nothing else.
- I accessed the site and... I saw the same problems!
- I thought it was a cache problem, so I reloaded the page. No result. I tried another browser. No result. I tried a text browser. No result. I tried with my laptop, but again no result. I asked a friend to tell me how my site looked from his computer, it was still broken.

How can this problem explained? What is wrong? Can anybody help me?

Now here's a question where the drupal users who know what they're talking about may just tell me not to be daft!

I'm planning on using ModernBill, which gives me the option of running MySQL code each time it sets up a new user (and separate code if it suspends them, and also if it deletes them).

How can I use this to add new users to a drupal installation?

I think I would find it easy enough to add them into the users table, the difficult part is to also increment the counter in the other table that keeps a track of the last allocated userid.

Alright, I know how to restrict the blocks from one page using the following syntax:

<^(?!node/add/)>

I also want to keep that block from showing up on edit pages as well so what is the connector which says don't show the block on node/add/ pages AND edit/ pages. Everything I've tried to designate two different pages as restricted hasn't worked. Thanks.

Is there any walk-through that would help me upload, install, and configure new modules? I am a newbie, but I've got a site up that I'm trying to add functionality to.

I'm using Drupal 4.5 and I can't figure out how to get the module plugged into the site properly.

Thanks for any advice,
-Acostan