Converting to Drupal

Hi,

suppose I have a former site here www.formersite.com

I then think static sites are dumb and make a drupal site, link becomes: www.formersite.com/drupal/

is there a way I can change www.formersite.com/drupal into > www.formersite.com/

Also I want to make sure Google continues to list the site,

Please suggest?????

Hello there:

There are quite a lot of modules available. It is quite time consuming to learn about each module and choose the right one for the project.

Are there any listing available on highly used modules? Any web sites featuring this kind of information?

Thank you.

Hello everybody, another Drupal newbie here to clog up the tubes with some (probably already answered) questions.

A quick little intro: I work for http://www.kayakfishingstuff.com. We are a brick & mortar and e-commerce kayak retailer, basically anything to do with fishing off of a kayak- we got ya covered. Our website is a nightmare right now. An outdated (and constantly breaking) Miva 4.22 (store) and static .dbf files that serve up articles through .asp pages have driven me to the brink of insanity... however it all works. Albeit slowly. We are currently using the domain http://www.kayakfishingstuff.com as a live production environment. Drupal seems to offer a great way for us to first archive all of our content, but later migrate to a more web 2.0 community site. Of of my big (lofty and long-term) goals is to merge the authentication for the store, CMS, and forums all into one... but I'm getting ahead of myself now.

After about a month of failed attempts to get a few pieces of software to work correctly (read: setup PHP) on IIS and Win 2003, I've acquired a RedHat VMware server and started to try to set up the requisite databases for drupal. Unfortounately, the Plesk control panel I had our host install wants to have a domain to create a database... and if I'm not mistaken drupal is going to want a domain name as well.

I am having problems with adding nodes from SQL. I have added about 1000 nodes with SQL queries that update the node and node_revisions tables (and some CCK tables too). From the looks of it, all the node IDs are sequential. Everything imported successfully, but the only problem I have is when I want to add a new node. The new node has an ID of the beginning node that I imported. In other words, if I imported nodes 100-900 via SQL, when I add a new node through Drupal, that new node ID is 100. This new node does not overwrite the existing data, nor does the new node exist anywhere in the database tables. Rather, the information from the new node is lost or not saved anywhere. After adding that new node unsuccessfully, I tried again and the same thing happened except the ID of the new node was 101 that time, and it increments each time, but it does not save any of the new data.

If I keep incrementing until 901 (the first real new node), I wonder if it will work then. But my real question is: is there a way to tell Drupal to add new nodes at the end (at 901) instead of at 100 or so?

I tried emptying caches to see if that would fix the problem, but that did not seem to. When adding a new node, I assumed Drupal would look in the node table to get the next node ID number. How does it get the next node ID number?

Can anyone think of a fix for this?

Hi,
I am new to Drupal and I would like to convert a MSSQL database to Drupal. My problem is that I am not sure what happens to the <"a href"> tag that is embedded within a html file that will become a page, book or story in Drupal. Can any explain how the handle the reference? I think that I would have to manually reset the links. Is this true? Can anyone help. Thanks