Drupal 4.7.x

Can you help me with my question:

how I can change url of directory on my site

from "http://example.com/dir"

to "http://dir.example.com"?

My first post on drupal.org finally :)

I was looking at http://drupal.org/node/41694 posting by moxiecode and found that MCFileManager and MCImageManager are being being integrated into TinyMCE as plugins.

They also mention that it includes a new authenticator specifically written for drupal.

Firstly,

1) Will images and/or files loaded by these plugins be drupal nodes or will be just stored as normal files and be accessible only thru MCFileManager and MCImageManager.

2) I checked the code (the drupal authenticator) and found that it is creating a directory for each user. Does this mean that each drupal site user will have his own private store of images which he/she can manage using MCFileManager and MCImageManager plugins.

Secondly,

1) The tinyMCE project - http://drupal.org/project/tinymce - has provided support for images to be imported directly and implemented as a plugin in TinyMCE. I know this imports images as proper drupal nodes. (Please correct me if I am wrong)

and finally what I would like to understand are views on

1) Does it make sense to import/manage an image collection like normal files and not as proper drupal nodes, (the way image module does) like as I believe is happening with TinyMCE plugins (MCFileManager and MCImageManager)

I just initiated this discussion to understand the pros and cons of using the above approaches. Managing images as normal files or as proper drupal nodes by the image module.

I have successfully installed Drupal 4.7.0 beta 4 using box_grey theme. I am an end-user type with a technical aptitude. My question is...where do I go next?

Are there any modules out there right now for user authentication with LDAP in 4.7? If not would porting the 4.6 module be difficult (does it have a lot of 4.6 depedent code)?

I've been using the "Trip search" module (aka SQL Search) for a while now, and am rolling it out bit by bit to different language sites. I would be happy to make translations available for French, Spanish, and Dutch (with German and Italian to come all being well). Since I understand that SQL Search will be discontinued in favour of core search, I would be very happy to make these translations available to those who are doing the translation of 4.7 core.

Apart from anything, I have every interest in making sure that it gets translated as well!

I thought I'd bring this up again as 4.7.0-beta4 has been released and more people begin to upgrade. For the life of me, I cannot find a relatively painless solution that does not unnecessarily mess with my database content. I still have this problem and I cannot create new vocabularies, although I do get the message saying it was created. It was not, I checked the database tables. I am certain it an upgrade problem, from 4.6.3 to 4.7.0 beta, that I did. However, everything else runs very well...no problems. Is it possible for me to just run the update/commit that deals with the 'tags' ?