By Lcribb on

I must be stupid or blind - I just cant work it out...

I Have created my standard menu on the left hand side of my drupal page. Fine. Now I want to point these links to a page at the centre of my drupal page... Any page would do, but I just can't work out what I am doing wrong. for example:

I created a Menu "Category 1", which I linked to http://www.mypage.com/category1. I then uploaded a file index.html to http://www.mypage.com/category1. But when I click on my menu link "Category 1" it just gives me a "Page not found" notice...

What am I doing wrong? Is there a different way of linking in drupal, or is there a different way of creating a page? I just don't get what I am missing here...

Thanks for any help.

cheers
Lev

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aaron commented

Creating content in Drupal is different than you may be used to. I'm still learning stuff myself, and there may be better ways. But this should get you started.

First, you'll want the "path" module activated. (Click administer, modules, and make sure "path" is checked.) This will allow you to rename links to pages to things like "page1".

Now, click "create content", and then click "page" on the main section. Now you will have a form, where you type the text of your page. Give it a title, enter "page1" (or whatever, without quotes) into the path alias box, and type the content into the "body" box.

Click preview, and submit it when it looks right, and you have the page. It will show up as well on the home page, unless you uncheck "Promoted to front page". You'll also be able to link to it from adding various menu options, whether manually like it sounds you're doing, adding a primary or secondary link, and/or linking it through a category (which becomes more complex -- I'm still figuring out the whole taxonomy bit).

Good luck! Hope this helps you get started.

- Aaron
Culture Fix Web Identity & Design
Digital Folk Art (my blog)

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aaron commented

Oh, by the way, Drupal doesn't use *.html. It will be addressed something like, "http://www.yoursite.com/index.php?q=page1", or even "http://www.yoursite.com/?q=page1". From within the various modules, depending on the module or option, linking to this page would usually be just adding "page1" to the link box, and Drupal will figure out the rest.

- Aaron
Culture Fix Web Identity & Design
Digital Folk Art (my blog)

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sepeck commented

Create content > page will get you the page
This will explain paths.
http://drupal.org/node/31644

You don't upload an index.html

-sp
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