Hi Drupal folks. I am a web developer versed in the "old" methods, i.e. HTML, CSS, ASP and ASP.net. I declared myself free of the M$FT stuff when I no longer had to do it and set about making life simpler with Open Source. I discovered Drupal when working up a site for my church, the idea being that individuals - even ordinarily inept ones - could do there owne updates.
My Drupal history is brief, about a month. I currently have a quasi-live Drupal 6 site, but I have been working with a Druppal 5.12 site on an XXAMP installation on my laptop.
I would like to take the live site to 5.12 and later go to 6.6 or whatever version is current; it just feels better now. I have backed up the database through PHPMyAdmin and would like to get advice on what to do next. Would I just remove the installation by folders or some other way? Once that is done, I assume just a new install of 5.12. The database has some users. I'd rather not start from scratch, but I could if necessary. If PHP andMySQL versions are key to this, I'll locate them.
Also, I have a question about the RSS link. THough I have disabled it, it still shows up on both 5.12 and 6.6 sites.
And, while I'm at it, I want to hide the "submitted by", etc messages. I'm wondering if there is a certain content type that needs to be used. \ Bob
On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 6:12 PM, Bob Salsburg bsisok@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Drupal folks. I am a web developer versed in the "old" methods, i.e. HTML, CSS, ASP and ASP.net. I declared myself free of the M$FT stuff when I no longer had to do it and set about making life simpler with Open Source. I discovered Drupal when working up a site for my church, the idea being that individuals - even ordinarily inept ones - could do there owne updates.
My Drupal history is brief, about a month. I currently have a quasi-live Drupal 6 site, but I have been working with a Druppal 5.12 site on an XXAMP installation on my laptop.
Assuming you want to take the Drupal 5.x site you have on your laptop, and copy it to the live site, the procedure would be.
1. On your current live site (Drupal 6.x), dump the database and zip the entire file structure and download both files to a safe location.
2. Delete everything, there is no simple, straightforward way to export and import users or anything else in Drupal unless you would like to write a script in PHP, then you could be in luck big time (lots of snippets on drupal.org).
3. On your laptop 5.x install, dump the database and tar (or zip) the file structure and move everything to your live site and unpack the file system and restore the database file to the database server.
4. You should be all set to go.
This is the basic approach, there exist more sophisticated ways of doing it that might make life easier (like just using CVS to check out and update (switch) the Drupal version from the command line).
The RSS link is actually a block (Syndicate) you can simply disable in Administer > Site building > Blocks.
To remove the "submitted by" cruft, go to Administer > Site building > Themes, and select the general configuration, and there you will see a checkbox for each content type, you can deselect the submitted by to appear or not on a content type by content type basis. Again, this is in the general settings, not the settings for any one particular theme.
Victor Kane http://awebfactory.com.ar
I would like to take the live site to 5.12 and later go to 6.6 or whatever version is current; it just feels better now. I have backed up the database through PHPMyAdmin and would like to get advice on what to do next. Would I just remove the installation by folders or some other way? Once that is done, I assume just a new install of 5.12. The database has some users. I'd rather not start from scratch, but I could if necessary. If PHP andMySQL versions are key to this, I'll locate them.
Also, I have a question about the RSS link. THough I have disabled it, it still shows up on both 5.12 and 6.6 sites.
And, while I'm at it, I want to hide the "submitted by", etc messages. I'm wondering if there is a certain content type that needs to be used. \ Bob
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On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 3:30 PM, Victor Kane victorkane@gmail.com wrote:
The RSS link is actually a block (Syndicate) you can simply disable in Administer > Site building > Blocks.
To remove the "submitted by" cruft, go to Administer > Site building > Themes, and select the general configuration, and there you will see a checkbox for each content type, you can deselect the submitted by to appear or not on a content type by content type basis. Again, this is in the general settings, not the settings for any one particular theme.
I'll be studying the switchout procedure on the 6.6 -> 5.12 server. Thanks for the reply.
Sorry Victor; the Syndicate block is disable in the Global settings of 5.12. I think it was in the 6.6. installation too. That's what was so confusing. Here's the way it looks.
A person with no Auth account browses the site. The RSS icon appears. Admin browses the site, logs in and RSS icon appears. If he clicks Read More, the page expands to full content and the icon is gone. Same for an Auth user.
This is counter to the expected functionality. To me Disabled means Disabled. There must be some other configuration. The Aggregator is also off, by default if I am not mistaken.
Recall too that I wanted the Submitted line removed. That worked once site was reloaded. Refresh didn't do it.
I would also like to have the page expand to full content when opened. Users would not see the Read More link at all. I may need to do this on a page basis. Can't locate that setting at this time. Any wisdom on this issue?
Bob
On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 2:33 AM, Bob Salsburg bsisok@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 3:30 PM, Victor Kane victorkane@gmail.com wrote:
The RSS link is actually a block (Syndicate) you can simply disable in Administer > Site building > Blocks.
To remove the "submitted by" cruft, go to Administer > Site building > Themes, and select the general configuration, and there you will see a checkbox for each content type, you can deselect the submitted by to appear or not on a content type by content type basis. Again, this is in the general settings, not the settings for any one particular theme.
I'll be studying the switchout procedure on the 6.6 -> 5.12 server. Thanks for the reply.
Sorry Victor; the Syndicate block is disable in the Global settings of 5.12. I think it was in the 6.6. installation too. That's what was so confusing. Here's the way it looks.
The block is probably disabled in Global settings, but enabled in the settings for the theme you are using.
A person with no Auth account browses the site. The RSS icon appears. Admin browses the site, logs in and RSS icon appears. If he clicks Read More, the page expands to full content and the icon is gone. Same for an Auth user.
This is counter to the expected functionality. To me Disabled means Disabled. There must be some other configuration. The Aggregator is also off, by default if I am not mistaken.
Recall too that I wanted the Submitted line removed. That worked once site was reloaded. Refresh didn't do it.
I would also like to have the page expand to full content when opened. Users would not see the Read More link at all. I may need to do this on a page basis. Can't locate that setting at this time. Any wisdom on this issue?
Bob
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Sorry Victor; the Syndicate block is disable in the Global settings of 5.12. I think it was in the 6.6. installation too. That's what was so confusing. Here's the way it looks.
The block is probably disabled in Global settings, but enabled in the settings for the theme you are using.
There are also themes which have an RSS link hard-coded, so you *may* need to look in page.tpl.php to see if that is the case with your theme. Let us know what IS your theme and we can look.
Hershel
Theme is Marvin. Simplified for troubleshooting.
On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 4:24 AM, Hershel Robinson hershelsr@gmail.comwrote:
There are also themes which have an RSS link hard-coded, so you *may* need to look in page.tpl.php to see if that is the case with your theme. Let us know what IS your theme and we can look.
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