By ciric@drupal.org on

Ok Drupal 4.5.2 is up and running on a website with PHP 4 and MySQL.

I followed the Installation guide (install files on website; create database and fill tables with database/database.mysql; connect database and website modifying includes/conf.php)

I have a couple of questions.

=== 1 ===
I created my 1st user and I went to administration section.
All I see is the log of the system events and nothing else (is it OK?)

===2===
The home page says: "Welcome to your new Drupal-powered website. This message will guide you through your first steps with Drupal, and will disappear once you have posted your first piece of content."

How can I create content so that the welcome disappears? On the home page I have noting but still the Welcome page and I do not know what "create contents" means,

Thank you!

Riccardo

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kbahey commented

For number 1, yes, this is OK.

The welcome page is normal, until you do create some pages, then it will be replaced by what you create.

Create content means that you click on http://example.com/node/add/page enter a title and body, then that will get published on your site.
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ciric@drupal.org commented

Thanks...

I tried with the full name of my site www.________.net/drupal/node/add/page

(drupal is in the drupal subdir)

but I obtain a 404 Not Found

ciric@drupal.org’s picture

ciric@drupal.org commented

The syntax that worked for me was:

http://www.____.net/drupal/?q=node/add#page

I had a Create Content page with a multiple choice:

# book page
# forum topic
# page
# personal blog entry
# story

I chose page and it worked well.

Would it not be useful to create a step-by step "Post install" manual for newbies?

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sepeck commented

A configuration guide is on my todo list, but todo in my spare time. With any luck I'll have one 'soon' :)

-sp

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