Drupal question
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I know im dumb and its late but im going to take drupal for a spin for the sake of learning ;p
Now to my question lol
I want to install drupal and ive been looking through the new guide. The killboard i was having issues with is now up running and very happy at http://www.killboard.me If i want to install drupal can i do it on this dns zone or should i setup a subdomain ?
I was thinking in my tired state it may be better to have my drupal blog or forum as the thing people land on at the tld and then have killboard as say killboard.me/kb or such?
Apologies if this made/makes no sense i'll try and clarify further what i mean when i wake up ;p
Posted 1 year ago # -
hey Brian
.. as for your web strategy, I cannot comment but ..
Drupal is a content management system, so generally you'd run a site off it, with Drupal sat in your root directory for whatever site, ie:-
/home/public_html/somesite.com/public/DRUPAL_FILES_LIVE_HERE
as for your killboard forum, it could sit happily within as a sub-site.
.. then again, you could have the forum as the root with the drupal-powered site sat in a sub-folder, else as a wildcard A record:-
WILDCARD.someDomain.tld
.. or (more typically) you could have your forum as the wildcard or, as is the case with vpsBible.com:-
whatever.com/forums
whichever way, you'd have a single Domain Zone for killboard.me.
if you want a sub-domain as exampled above, you'd create a wildcard A record in that record.
if you want /forums it's just another page with no extra DNS record.
Posted 1 year ago # -
@Brian....you may think you're dumb but you're smart enough to ask (which is smarter than most)! I share your brainpain, G.
Posted 1 year ago # -
Thanks Gary ;p and thanks guv for the info
hitting a lil snag tho installing drupal
cp public/sites/default/default.settings.php public/sites/default/settings.php
gives reply
cp: cannot stat `public/sites/default/default.settings.php': No such file or directory
WELP !
Posted 1 year ago # -
hey Brian ..
that's a permissions thing .. gonna be covering Linux Debian (so Ubuntu) permissions in a series starting, er, I think, this coming Thursday, so check that out. anyhow ..
try:-
sudo cp public/sites/default/default.settings.php public/sites/default/settings.php
.. giving your password as prompted.
Posted 1 year ago # -
Thanks for reply guv ill keep eye out for the permissions thing the sudu bit didnt work.
http://killboard.me/drupal-7.0-alpha2/install.php shows the installer ? may be irrelevant but i thought id mention it
Posted 1 year ago # -
Im thinking maybe some of this is above my level i might just stick with seperate packages to do seperate things.
apparently the new drupal download doesnt actually have the settings file in the package ive created it and the other one made all the dirs it says dont exist and 777 them and it still complains more than my gf lol
wordpress and phpbb here i come i think :-(
Posted 1 year ago # -
UPDATE ! screw drupal im now a joomla devotee lol not only have i managed to install it but by the powers of google ive managed to get phpbb3 bridged so it appears as part of the joomla install.
Next on the list is to bridge in gallery ill keep you posted. Hope all is well in guvland
Posted 1 year ago # -
big cheers Brian .. keep it here: I'm determined to turn you into a VPS Pro :P
that permissions tut is next week now .. had to make way for a how-to about adding modules to Nginx, which fits with the Upgrade Nginx guide I pubbed yesterday.
and Joomla .. that will be within a couple of weeks (there've been a few requests) .. er, once I've actually tried Joomla!!
Posted 1 year ago # -
you won't regret it :P
Posted 1 year ago # -
this is just my opinion...
going from Drupal to Joomla is a backward move... :D
If you are looking for friendlier cms/blog, yet powerful and well supported, you should go wordpress....
again this is just my opinion...
drupal and wordpress are SEO friendly out of the box, and they have very good plugin/module for SEO... not the case with joomla, and not to mention you cant have content with multiple categories in joomla.....
Posted 1 year ago #
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