1. Wilson Wingston Sharon
wingston.sharon@gmail.com
Configuring drupal

2. Test site on your wamp server is localhost/mysite
This equates to www.mysite.com on the web when your site is deployed.
Localhost/mysite/?q=node/1
www.mysite.com/node/1
3. Go to localhost/mysite
4. Things to remember
Keep a test site apart from live site.
Perfection is an ideal concept.
Start with the basics
Get support at drupal.org
5. Basic drupal configuration
Click on Administer>>site config link
Check out the site configuration section
First check out site information,enter basic details about site.
Front page can be changed from here
6. Admin>>site building>>modules
Blog
Book
Contact
Forum
Path
Php filter
Profile
Search
Statistics
Syslog
tracker
7. Clean URLS
http://localhost/mysite/?q=admin/settings/clean-urls
http://localhost/mysite/admin/settings/clean-urls
Server support required.
Easier to manage complex paths.
Pathatuo module gives automatic path aliasing.
8. Date and time
9. File System
When site is deployed online, use a ftp client like filezilla and CREATE required directories in cgi-bin folder of your siteand redirect these paths there.
These directories for security purposes must not be accessible from the web directly.
10. performance
11. Maintainance
In this mode go to localhost/mysite/?q=user to login as administrator
12. Admin>>Reports
If your site seems to malfunction you might to able to pinpoint the module causing the problem at recent log entries.
Status report tells you if theres a major problem with site in general.
Other general site statistics available only if statistics module is enabled and configured.
13. Things to remember
Disable Unnecessary Core Modules
Color
Aggregator
Dont keep unused modules enabled
Enable Necessary Core Modules
Path
Search
statistics
14. Things to remember
Navigation
Install administration menu module. The module renders all administrative menu items below 'administer' in a clean, attractive and purely CSS-based menu at the top of your website.
Tune your SEO
Use Nodewords,page title and global redirect for a SEO firendly website.
Use robots.txt to avoid duplicate content.
15. BACKUP, BACKUP and then keep one more BACKUP
Backup and Migrate module takes care of everything
Keep file backups from site cpanel menu.
Use a good server hosting service
Look at a lot of hosting providers.
Look for the drupal icon for compatibility.
Ask for 96mb of php memory. [more if you have insane number of modules]