Converting to Drupal

Here's my plan to convert a live site over to Drupal (the matching theme part is already done):

1) Install Drupal into a folder (/drupal-5.1/) in the document root of my live site

2) Import old static content page-by-page using path aliases to give new files matching URLs

3) When everything seems to work well, add a couple lines to my HTACCESS file to redirect requests to /drupal-5.1/ whenever a file does not exist.

  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f 
  RewriteRule ^(.*)$ drupal-5.1/$1 [QSA, L]  

4) Remove the old files, one at a time. As each page is removed, its Drupal version should take over automatically.

So far, on the test server, it seems to work fine except for one serious problem. All internal links in Drupal add the physical folder information into the link:

So pages with a link like this:
  http ://site.com/my-old-page.html
End up with an href like this:
  http ://site.com/drupal-5.1/my-old-page.html

Of course both links work but the new drupal link is fugly and not acceptable since it feeds two URLs to the search engines.

How do I tell Drupal to pretend it's located in the base folder? Alternately, where might I insert code to re-write the base url in drupal so as to get rid of the /drupal-5.1/ part?

Hi Folks,

I've just imported my wordpress posts to Drupal, but now they are blog entries. I would prefer to move them to the story node type. Any suggestions how to achieve that?

Thanks

I am a Research Scholar and i have been havig my bits & pieces in different places...from tripod to Yahoo...

What i would like to do is

1, A set of pages reg me , my research interests and hobbies..
2,A separate area where i can post my updates in my projects ...
3,A document repository, where i can let users dl my papers and articles and may be to post thiers...
4,A gallery would be much appreciated though not an immediate requirement....

Is there any set of (i know there exists , but its information overflow) modules for this tasks...

The site I'm importing into drupal 5.1 currently has images for each link.

I don't want to create a code "block" like is currently used I want to use the menu system and have each menu item be able to have it's own picture somehow...and be able to have individual mouse overs

I guess what I would need would be a CSS ID for each menu item and child if there are any, but I dunno where to start. It would be nice to have a module that allowed you to assign a style tag to each menu item, is that possible?

Thanks for your help,
Jon

hi i have a qestion who can make a portal for me? or where i can find some already done portals which i can use.please help.thank you!!!!!!
if you have some more good ideas you can send it to my e-mail welldone@one.lv

Hello.
I want to migrate my Vbulletin forum to Drupal. I want to do the whole thing by hand.
In drupal database exist a table called : "forum" this database hold some data.
The table has 3 collumns.

NID | VID | TID

I think NID hold Node ID.
But I don't know what "VID" and "TID" mean.

Someone help me a bit please?

Thanks!