Post installation

hi all

i have recently installed Drupal, and it works great:)

i have been workign on it, adding modules and so on to get it to how i want it, but something strange happened just now. I had installed the menu module, and was in the Blocks page, and i must have clicked something by accident, becuase now the admin/configuration menu has dissappeared from the left bar. I can't change my site ot anything now:(

any ideas ( if i knew the path for the configuration/block menu, i might be able too fix it?)

thanks in advance

I am helping a friend setup her site on some space she got with 1and1.com webhost and I have hit on some serious bug. She'd like to restrict her site to friends and family and away from her employers (current and future). I sold her on Drupal's security and showed her some sample sites. When setting up non-anonymous elements for her we kept bumping into a 500 server error. This is problematic, cause if a non-logged in user comes to her site she or he'll get a 500 error instead of a request to sign in. For the love of me, I can't recreate this in any other webhost, like Lunarpages, iPowerWeb, EV1 Servers, where I have setup Drupals for my friends. The only other Drupal user who hosts on 1and1.com I can find here is Duztin, and he has had the same error.

I'm wondering if there is a way for a user, as he or she signs up, to choose their own role. Not "admin" obviously, but if I have a more nuanced role that if a user could choose for themselves after agreeing to "terms of service" (for lack of better terminology), that would be great.

OK, so I f'd up with the taxonomy thing a little bit. Instead of having ONE "vocabulary" for my whole site and adding the terms below it, I used a "vocabulary" to represent not the "root" but, let's say, an "I" in an outline, the topmost level in the heirarchy that has multiple values.

So I got FileStore working, and while I like the user-experience of uploading and downloading, I don't like the idea of the files themselves being locked up in the database. If for no other reason, this system prevents me from running a simple backup of downloaded files, but it also makes URLs linking to the files unintuitive.

I see that the Image module stores real files in the "normal" filesystem, so such a thing is possible.

Am I missing this sort of "downloads" module?

-Warr

I created 2 Vocabularies: Articles and Tutorials. I associated them with the type "Story". And I added a different term to each of those. Then I added the toxonomy_menu module and told it to display both Articles and Tutorials. So far so good.

Then I added content and selected the term from the Articles dropdown and left the Tutorial term set to -none-. Then I did the same thing except I added content and selected the Tutorial term and left Articles on -none-.