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Mon, 15/03/2010 - 11:07 — arta

Hi guys:

 

i am new to drupal and tried to mak emy website using drupal have some difficulties if you help me that would be much appriciated.

1.my clean url is not working.

2.i have added  themes but cant see any difference??

3.how can get rid of those steps in my homepage?i need to have a proper homepage.

here is my website:

www.evafireplaces.co.uk/NewWebsite

a bit lost so if you get me back on aright way it would be great.

 

 

Thanks

 

Arta

 

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Mon, 15/03/2010 - 16:18 — gbain22

Hello

Hi Arta,

Is your website hosted on shared hosting or are you hosting it yourself?

1. When you try to turn on Clean URLs, is the option to turn it on greyed out? If so, then you need to do a bit of work on the server - this possibly may involved your hosting company if it is shared hosting.

2. Have you uploaded your themes into your /sites/all/themes folder? Once they are in there you need to go to Administer > Themes and tick "Enable" and also check "Default" to change your theme.

3. To get rid of your steps you need to create a home page and save it. Once this is done, go to Administer > Site Information and the bottom field says "Default Front Page" - you need to put your url in there for your homepage. For example "?q=home" or "home" (the first may be what yours is as you haven't got clean urls working).

Garry.

Mon, 15/03/2010 - 17:30 — arta
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Hi Garry:

Thank you for your  fast response.

yes it is hosted by other company an did think it maybe about apache webserver becaus everything i  had it in my local

sever it was working but i keep telling them to turn that rewite module on they say it is on .do you know any way so i can make sure they done it or check what else could be the problem??

2.all my themes are in my themes folder and i enabled that i thought i would see exactly what i see in the  image of the theme.isn that right??all the images and everything should be like that image of theme?(?thumbnail which shows the theme?)

3.i will do the home page but it would be different from theme and i have to edit code when i want to edit content which i dont want to do that because i need some one just login to my admin and change the content of the website . if i do homepage like that will i be able to edit it through administer page?

Thanks

 

Arta

Mon, 15/03/2010 - 20:34 — mark

Try some other themes. Does

Try some other themes. Does anything change?

A common cause for the failure of clean urls is no .htaccess file in your drupal directory. Is there one?

Tue, 16/03/2010 - 10:11 — arta
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Hi Garry:

 

Yes i've got .htaccess .do i need to do any chnages in that

and i tried change the theme and you are right it changed but it is just the structure of the webiste not whole details.

and what do you think about homepage if i do it myself would i be bale to edit the content using admin page???

Thanks again

 

Arta

 

 

 

Tue, 16/03/2010 - 12:02 — mark

I'm no apache expert (you're

I'm no apache expert (you're sure your hosting company definitely are using apache?) but there are a couple of things that you could still try.

1) I notice that you're running the site from the subdirectory /NewWebsite. Edit your .htaccess file - right at the bottom there is a section that reads:

  # Modify the RewriteBase if you are using Drupal in a subdirectory or in a
  # VirtualDocumentRoot and the rewrite rules are not working properly.
  # For example if your site is at http://example.com/drupal uncomment and
  # modify the following line:
  # RewriteBase /drupal
  #
  # If your site is running in a VirtualDocumentRoot at http://example.com/,
  # uncomment the following line:
  # RewriteBase /

Uncomment that final #RewriteBase / and change it to RewriteBase /NewWebsite so that it looks like this:

  # Modify the RewriteBase if you are using Drupal in a subdirectory or in a
  # VirtualDocumentRoot and the rewrite rules are not working properly.
  # For example if your site is at http://example.com/drupal uncomment and
  # modify the following line:
  # RewriteBase /drupal
  #
  # If your site is running in a VirtualDocumentRoot at http://example.com/,
  # uncomment the following line:
  RewriteBase /NewWebsite

2) If this doesn't work the only other thing I can think of at the moment is that apache isn't allowing .htaccess to overide your site's apache settings. Unlikely though.

Tue, 16/03/2010 - 13:08 — arta
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.htaccess

HI:

 

Thanks with your help my clean url is now working perfectly.Smile

can you help me about my question about homepage??!

 

Kind Regards

 

Arta

Tue, 16/03/2010 - 18:58 — mark

Home page?

Pleased to hear that your clean urls now work.

Regarding the home page, I'm not exactly sure what you want. Garry already mentioned how to change your default front page - Administer > Site Information and the bottom field says Default Front Page. You will have to put node/5 here, since that is where your home page is.

And to edit the content of your home page go to Administer › Content management > Content - a list will appear of all the content on your site. Find the piece of content with the title HomePage and click on edit (on the right of the screen) .

Is this what you want to know?

By the way here's a video with some basic drupal info. There are plenty of other very useful videos on this site.

http://gotdrupal.com/videos/drupal-setup

Mark