By dhrubajyoti on

How can I Replace the homepage url by Username. eg replace website.com/?=user/3 by website.com/username?

Plz help.

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nevets commented

I believe the path auto module will do this and more.

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dhrubajyoti commented

THanks for Your reply Sir,

I am quite new out here. Can you Explain the thing ie auto module and how to do it.

One more thing Sir, HOw CAN I CONFIGURE MU DRUPAL SO THAT THE USERS GET VERIFICATION BY EMAIL ONCE THEY REGISTER IN MY SITE MADE BY DRUPAL.

THANKING YOU
DHRUBAJYOTI

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nevets commented

You start by visiting the downloads are (see tab above), going to module and I usually pick 'Browse by Name' unless I am sure of the category it is in. Look down for pathauto and download the version that matches the version of Drupal you are using. I suggest always using an 'Official release' unless you specifically want to test/play with the develepment version (which may be unstable).

Once you download the module, install, enable and then go to it's settings page to configue. If you need more details on installing the module see "Installing Modules and Themes" in the handbooks.

As for the second part users do get an email when they register with Drupal or do you want them to verify they received the email? In the later case I would suggest checking out the LoginToboggan module.

And a side note, it is not considered proper to post in all capital letters, it is viewed as shouting.

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dhrubajyoti commented

Thanks again Sir,

I am checking those now. will reply about the results in about 15 mins.

And do I need to configure anything like smpt to forward those mails

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dhrubajyoti commented

Thanks again Sir,

I am checking those now. will reply about the results in about 15 mins.

And do I need to configure anything like smpt to forward those mails

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dhrubajyoti commented

Dear Sir,
There is some prob perhaps. What I want is that- the default blogging address becomes domainname.com/username, but from patauto module I am still getting domainname.com/?q=username. I want to remove that part. Is there any scripting that is needed to be done?

And for the email part, how to configure and what to configure so that automated mail is sent to their accounts.
I am getting mail() [function.mail]: Failed to connect to mailserver at "localhost" port 25, verify your "SMTP" and "smtp_port" setting in php.ini or use ini_set() in C:\wamp\www\drupal-5.6\includes\common.inc on line 1991. error

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nevets commented

I am gathering from your error message you are running on Windows using IIS as the server. While that works for developement I do not recommend it for production sites. The questiion about removing /?= from the path needs clean URLs which does not work under IIS by default. See http://drupal.org/node/27141 for information on both clean URL's and cron under windows.

Same goes for email, the default PHP configuration does not handle email under windows, try the search feature of Drupal looking for something like "email on Windows".