Post installation

Hi,

I have setup Drupal for my site and all is working OK, except for when I want to upload avatars, I am getting permission/does not exist errors. I have made sure that both the files and avatars directory exist under my sites root directory and that they are chown'ed to 777 but I am still getting messages from the configuration page that the directory is non-writable or does not exist.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I know that Drupal has a built in block which shows the last updated blogs. But is there anyway to create a seperate block to show a list of blog authors?

I've noticed that when I add certain items to the main page via the "blog it" method, the contents HTML gets a bit screwy. For example, if a site links to "http://www.hello.com", my Drupal will *sometimes* re-write the URL as http://www.unixville.com/\"http://www.hello.com\". Very odd.

For example, if you go to my site at this page:

I've configured a bunch of different RSS feeds on my Drupal site and it seems to work pretty well. But, I'd like to do 2 more things:

1.) Give users the ability to add their own personal RSS feeds which are only visible to them.

and

2.) Be able to add RSS feeds which are only visible to me (the admin) and don't even show up in users "My Account -> Edit Account -> Block Configuration" area...

Actually, 1 and 2 can be the same issue, but I'm just trying to clarify.

Is this doable?

I installed the module image + the theme Gworks but I have two little problems.
The first is that when I try to create an image node I get:

Full image file not uploaded.
Thumbnail image file not uploaded.

But instead the warning images are created and all works... almost

When I tried to access the node i got always the thumbnail but searching in the code I find that it way due to the class associated with the image. Infact in

/themes/xtemplate/gworks/xtemplate.css

I find

.image {
float:left;
width: 110px;
}

Hi all,

I installed drupal 4.4.1 this weekend and all was running well. I am running on a Debian Woody box, with the latest version of Postgres from backports.org. I had to modify on line in /usr/share/pear to get things working (fix found on this site) and all was fine. I went about putting stuff on the site. At some point, which I am pretty certain is following an attempt to post anonymously (which was allowed - to be queued for approval) I started getting the following error on some pages when I was logged in:

user error: DB Error: unknown error
query: SELECT n.*, u.uid, u.name, u.data FROM node n INNER JOIN users u ON u.uid = n.uid WHERE n.nid = '' in /var/www/portal/includes/database.pear.inc on line 89.

This appears at the top of the page and I've no idea how to get rid of it! I'm not skilled enough in either php or sql to dive through the code and try and work out what the problem is, but I'm pretty sure that nid should be an integer. On the create content -> Forum topic it appears to be trying the following:

SELECT n.*, u.uid, u.name, u.data FROM node n INNER JOIN users u ON u.uid = n.uid WHERE n.nid = 'forum'

Running this in psql gives - ERROR: invalid input syntax for integer: "forum".

Running manually the following query:

SELECT n.*, u.uid, u.name, u.data FROM node n INNER JOIN users u ON u.uid = n.uid WHERE n.type = 'forum'

returns records ok.