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setup on debian
- creating the database user: http://drupal.org/getting-started/5/install/create-database/mysql
multisite setup on debian
the drupal5 package installs drupal in /usr/share/drupal5, with config files in /etc/drupal/5. with a multi-site setup, this is the codebase that will be used by all of the sites. in theory it will be updated by the package-manager.
the following is based on http://drupal.org/getting-started/5/install/multi-site
to make a new site:
make a VirtualHost in /etc/apache2/sites-available/new_site
<VirtualHost *> ServerAdmin admin@example.com DocumentRoot /usr/share/drupal5 ServerName new-site.example.com <Directory "/"> Options FollowSymLinks AllowOverride None </Directory> <Directory "/usr/share/drupal5"> Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews AllowOverride None Order allow,deny allow from all </Directory> ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/error.log LogLevel warn CustomLog /var/log/apache2/access.log combined ServerSignature Off </VirtualHost>
then symlink this VirtualHost from /etc/apache2/sites-enabled
cd /etc/apache2/sites-enabled ln -sf ../new-site 001-new-site
also you need to make a new site config directory in /etc/drupal/5/sites. the easiest way to do this is to copy the “default” site:
cp -r /etc/drupal/5/sites/default /etc/drupal/5/sites/new-site.example.com
the name of the directory needs to be the domain under which the site will be accessed.
make sure that both the dbconfig.php and settings.php files are writeable by www-data.
chown .www-data /etc/drupal/5/sites/dbconfig.php /etc/drupal/5/sites/settings.php chmod g+w /etc/drupal/5/sites/dbconfig.php /etc/drupal/5/sites/settings.php
before you have a real domain setup, you can edit your /etc/hosts file on your local machine and add an entry that points the domain at the ip address of the server. eg:
78.46.38.135 new-site.example.com
possibly you also need to add this to the server /etc/hosts file???
now if you visit the new-site.example.com, it should run the installation script and set up the database.
themes
- overviews
- theme construction » http://drupal.org/project/atck
- A collection of 'How-to' articles on subjects relevant to theme developers » http://drupal.org/node/22803
- Neem-tree tutorials on themes & theming.. .
- theming a particular content type: http://drupal.org/node/17565
modules
- timeline http://drupal.org/project/timeline
- development 5.x release http://drupal.org/node/77900/release
- views_multiblock: http://drupal.org/project/views_multiblock
- allegedly allows blocks to take arguments from the currently viewed node (eg, taxonomy)
tutorials etc
- some screencasts on CCK/nodereference (building a node out of several other nodes)
- drupal api
- creating new node types in 5.x: http://drupal.org/node/132845
- node_example.module: http://api.drupal.org/api/file/developer/examples/node_example.module/5/source
- node_example.install: http://api.drupal.org/api/file/developer/examples/node_example.install/5/source
things to find out
- flickr integration?
- special arrangements like our frontpage picture selection idea?
- module that uploads to flickr and drupal at the same time: http://drupal.org/project/flickrup
- how to get the flickr filter working?
- how to do lists of related links
- will they be made manually? or based on tags? or…
- views?
- and only have them show up on the correct pages
- block configuration? if the pages have urls that can be selected with a wildcard, then it will be easier.
- about tags: http://drupal.org/handbook/modules/taxonomy/
- “Displaying related nodes using Views and Contemplate” > http://drupal.org/node/134320
- what is cck? ;)
- for making structured kinds of content… but what is the structure of our content?
- can you link to the page of a paged view that contains a particular node?
- looking at the code in includes/pager.inc it looks like no.
- would this work with an image gallery?
- seems to use the same pager code. finding this out would require an extra query from the database.
- how do you use imagecache?
- it normally seems to need custom theming, but you can access the generated pics at /files/imagecache/NAMESPACE/FILENAME
- from the imagecache README.TXT:
print theme('imagecache', $ruleset_namespace, $image['filepath'], $alt, $title, $attributes)
- can a normal image_gallery work with a non “image gallery” tag?
- yes, /gallery/tid/XX where XX is the id of the tag.
- but since galleries can't really be included in anything else (views, panels etc) they are kind of useless.
- how would i do a view-like taxonomy query in mysql? (doesn't the devel module tell you this stuff?)
select * from node join term_node where node.nid=term_node.nid and tid=63;
select * from node join term_node, term_data where node.nid=term_node.nid and term_node.tid=term_data.tid and term_data.name="xmedk";
- nicer:
select * from node join term_node on node.nid=term_node.nid join term_data on term_node.tid=term_data.tid where term_data.name="xmedk";