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By alienwiz on
Hi All,
I run a local nonprofit community website... www.Goenkar.com. It is currently mostly static html with a few PHP scripts running including phpbb. There are a few problems, the main being the complexity of updatign data and the next being the case of needing to signup separately to use each of teh installed scripts.
So I'm gonna shift the whole site to a CMS and after reviweing about 12 different cms softwares my heart is set on drupal caz it seems to have most of what I need.
There is another complexity in shifting to a cms.
1) The search engines (other than google) do not spider dynamic content. So my search engine ranking would go down eventually.
2) There are a lot of mini sites on the website. Goa is a small state but has plenty of villages. So I will be assigning subdomains for each village. I need this content monitored by pre-designated people from those villages. I need to have a sub-portal kind of system as well as have the headlines, posts, etc. show up on the parent website homepage.
Each sub-portal will have their own theme. Each sub-portal could also have sub-sub-portals and they too with their own theme and layout.
I am on a LAMP, virtual host, 250MB, 1 database, unlimited sub-domains and no root/telnet/ssh access.
The main things needed are the sub-portal functionality and assigning administrators for every sub-portal.
I am pretty good at PHP but your advice on a path to achive the above using drupal would be appreciated. This would save me a lot of time writing my own cms from scratch.
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1) The search engines (other than google) do not spider dynamic content. So my search engine ranking would go down eventually.
Drupal CVS supports clean URLs so crawlers will pick up all content.
2) There are a lot of mini sites on the website. Goa is a small state but has plenty of villages. So I will be assigning subdomains for each village. I need this content monitored by pre-designated people from those villages. I need to have a sub-portal kind of system as well as have the headlines, posts, etc. show up on the parent website homepage.
There are people on the mailing list that have a similar setup. Maybe you should consult them?
Other than that, effort is put in the development of a permission system that is tied to the taxonomy terms.
In short, I think Drupal can do the job but you might have to customize it a little.
Where in CVS?
My Drupal site is quite customized using 4.1, and I don't want to use the CVS version. Is it possible for me to modify 4.1 to support clean URLs using what I find in CVS? Could you point to the relevant modules/functions in CVS I need to look at?
it took dries a weekend to do the "clean url" patch
(see http://lists.drupal.org/pipermail/drupal-devel/2003-January/020973.html), so i guess you will be better of upgrading to cvs if you want to use clean urls.
FYI: cvs diff -D2003-01-06 -D2003-01-07 (eg. a diff of the core sources before and after the clean url change) yields a diff of 2512 lines ...