Converting to Drupal

Hello,

I am fairly new to Drupal and I need to know whether Drupal is the way to go. My client needs a website with the following requirements:

I've recently converted an html site that I did a while back into a Drupal install so that others in the company can easily edit things. Everything went well enough, but I am now completely baffled by a .htaccess problem I am having.

I have redirected all the html pages as follows (just a snippet of them all) :

redirect 301 /sports.html http://www.udoschoice.co.uk/udo_oil_and_sports
redirect 301 /winwinwin.html http://www.udoschoice.co.uk/win_win_win
redirect 301 /buy-online.htm http://www.udoschoice.co.uk/shop/index.php
redirect 301 /locator.html http://www.udoschoice.co.uk/udos_oil_store_locator

These all work great. However, on our adverts, and other marketing info, we also direct people to udoschoice.co.uk/sports, and /locator - this is just done for the simplicity of not putting in a big URL. The redirects have been set as follows:

redirect 301 /sports http://www.udoschoice.co.uk/udo_oil_and_sports
redirect 301 /locator http://www.udoschoice.co.uk/udos_oil_store_locator

Now, when udoschoice.co.uk/sports, and udoschoice.co.uk/locator are entered into any browser, they redirect as follows:

http://www.udoschoice.co.uk/udo_oil_and_sports?q=sports
http://www.udoschoice.co.uk/udos_oil_store_locator?q=locator

Hello to All -
Currently my website is in .NET and I would like to migrate to Drupal in order to manage the content better.
My site currently supports 22 languages having different domain names for each language. The site has the same theme for all of the domains.
Generally, the site (including all of its domains/languages) is divided into 3 subfolders/sections which are responsible for different content and slight changes in the theme. for example:
The URL http://www.example.fr (which is responsible for the French language) is divided into 3 content sections:

• http://www.example.fr/sec1/
• http://www.example.fr/sec2/
• http://www.example.fr/sec3/

and so is the other domains/languages. As a matter of fact, each section contains a slightly different version of the whole site.
I have installed fresh D7 and also I have installed i18n (and its dependencies),pathauto, panels and context modules but I have yet succeeded to answer the following questions:

1. How can I create a node and assign it to one of the above sections ?
2. Once I have managed to assign a node to a section, how can I make it have a URL prefixed by the appropriate section prefix like sec1,sec2 etc. ?
3. How can I have my theme changed according to the section the user is in?

Please show me or send to my e-mail (hudnik@gmail.com) an example for settings.php file. What could be write in it?

I am a starter in Drupal(7). I made a website in my computer and I would like to take it on Internet. I did ftp the library from htdocs and I made with backup and migrate a saving and I took that to the new database. But I can't write the settings.php because I don't know what needs in it.

Thanks,
niki

Hi,

I'm about to start work on migrating some sites from another CMS solution. Whilst I'm confidant Drupal is the right way to go there are a few parts I'm still not sure on.

To give you some background I currently have 4-5 websites on the current CMS that I'm looking to migrate, other than the theme/skin and a few bits of content i.e. home page they are pretty much the same site. Currently I structure the content as follows:-

/base_content/home
/base_content/section1/page1
/base_content/section2/subsection1
/base_content/section2/subsection2
/base_content/section2/subsection2/page1
/base_content/section2/subsection3
/base_content/section3/page1
/site1/home
/site1/section3/page1
/site2/section2/subsection2

The base_content contains the base version of the site, site1 and site 2 contain the customizations that override the base version i.e. requesting www.site1.com/home will serve the overridden /site1/home content but on site 2 (www.site2.com/home) the home page hasn't been overriden so the base_content/home content will be served instead.

My sites have around 2000+ pages of content so I need to be able to manage it in a hierarchy otherwise it'll become unmanageable. I'd also like to avoid duplicating content if possible to minimize authoring, overhead of duplicating and keeping the number of content pages down to a minimum.

I'm trying to convert my sites http://www.convert-youtube-to-mp3.com and http://bow.to to drupal. Is that possible?