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Well, I have my drupal install up and running. I have only spent a day with drupal so I'm really in the "early stages" of learning the system. It would be a great jump-start if someone could help with a couple of questions.

1. How do I get my "mission" to show up on the main page? I've tried using all three of the themes that come with drupal.

2. How do I download and install new themes?

Well, I have my drupal install up and running. I have only spent a day with drupal so I'm really in the "early stages" of learning the system. It would be a great jump-start if someone could help with a couple of questions.

1. How do I get my "mission" to show up on the main page? I've tried using all three of the themes that come with drupal.

2. How do I download and install new themes?

I would prefer if Drupal could display the RSS feeds it subscribes to in the main content section, not on the blocks on the side. I can't seem to do this.

The Administrator's Guide says:

The news aggregator has a number of ways that it displays your subscribed content:

Latest News -- Displays all incoming content in the order received with

The title of the original post.

The name of the source, which acts as a link to an individual feed page, listing information about that feed and incoming content for that feed only.

A description, the first few paragraphs or summary of the originating post (if any).

A blog it link. Users can select this link to have Drupal automatically prepare a blog post for the specific item.

A feed link, which acts as a link to an individual feed page, listing information about that feed and incoming content for that feed only.

News by Source -- Organizes incoming content by feed, displaying titles which link to the originating post. Also has an icon which acts as blog it link.

News by Topic -- Organizes incoming content by bundles, displaying titles which link to the originating post. Also has an icon which acts as blog it link.

News Sources -- Displays an alphabetical listing of all subscribed feeds and a description. The title acts as a link to an individual feed page, listing information about that feed and incoming content for that feed only.

I would like to make use of friendly URL's, but I don't know what ModRewrite is or how to get it, or what to do. I tried some searches on the Drupal site but they were not helpful. Can anyone point me in the right direction? Thanks

I have a working installation of Drupal 4.4.2 using clean URLs in the directory ~foo1/bar1/drupal-4.4.2/ which corresponds to http://subdomain.domain1.com/drupal-4.4.2/

This is however a temporary location. When I copy the files (cp -r * and cp .htaccess) to another directory on the same server: ~foo1/bar2/ (i.e. another directory + no drupal-4.4.2) which corresponds to http://domain2.com/

Both installations use the same database.

I actually deleted two feeds before removing their corresponding blocks that I had in my site's sidebar.

This caused two mysql errors appearing at the top of every page on my site.

I tried to go back and delete the blocks but they did't show up in my administer >> configuration >> blocks panel so I couldn't delete them. (Little empty blocks were still showing up on my sidebare as well.)

I also tried using phpMyAdmin to delete any entries for those blocks from the "blocks" table but there weren't any.