[drupal-docs] Troubleshooting faq section (needs to be condensed)

[Anisa]

Richard Eriksson wrote:

>>to install additional modules themselves, but certainly, it's windows
>>centric.  If you need to add specific info for other OSs, then you want to
>>seperate it out, windows users this, linux users that.
>>    
>>
> I am not sure how many non-windows users wouldn't be able to figure 
> out how
>
>
>Ideally instructions on installing anything that's web-based is not
>specific to platforms, but just that since most web servers are
>Unix-based, that's kind of how things have gone.  I'll look around and
>see how much can be made not-platform-specific.
>  
>
I should say that I meant windows on their computer, not their server.
I find command lines personally confusing, because I never use them, 
even though I have a unix server.  :)  However, there is a note on the 
install page along the same lines, that things should be kept to the 
bare minimum.

One thought is to seperate that kind of information on to a different 
page.  For example, instead of describing different ways to open a 
tar.gz file in that page, create a link to a page 'How to open tar 
files'.  Similarly, you can make a page on using phpMyAdmin, with a 
subsection about running sql queries.  These things don't really have to 
do with Drupal specifically, so perhaps they could go in a section about 
'Basics' or 'Miscellaneous'.

That would clean up the page a bit, I think, and you can reuse that 
information in other how to's.

Anisa.


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