Creating Front Page in new Drupal 6 Installation

By huxly on 20 Feb 2009 at 19:48 UTC

Hello everyone,

I've searched online and found several how-to's on creating a Front Page, however I have not been able to complete this successfully. Even applying one of the themes from the themes gallery is not working. After clicking to Apply Configuration, Drupal goes back to the default home page and nothing changes.

I'm new at this, can some one point in the right direction please.

Thanks so much,
Hux

Comments

Two Methods ...

ambientdrup commented 20 February 2009 at 20:10

If you're just trying to show content on your front page you can do either:

1) Promote your content to the front page of your site when you post it - on the content form you'll see this under "Publishing Options"

2) Set your default front page in your "Site Information" admin area usually here:

/admin/settings/site-information

Look for the "Default Front Page" field on that form.

Hope that helps.

-backdrifting

Hi huxly, if I understood

dia assada commented 20 February 2009 at 20:23

Hi huxly, if I understood your point well, I think it's from site information you can go to:
Administer - site information, and you should see at the very bottom a field that determines what Drupal should display as front page, put the path to whatever you want to be front page.
I hope that's it!
I posted my replay before the above one was posted, so take what suits you

Nothing is working...

huxly commented 20 February 2009 at 22:29

Actually, nothing seems to be working, I might have a bad installation. Even something simple as changing the theme produces no results.

I go to Administrator>Site Building>Themes I select something that looks very different than the default Drupal theme, and when I click "Save Configuration" it takes me to the default homepage without changing anything. I tried to also change colors to the default theme by clicking the "Configure" link. I Changed the colors to something extreme like bright yellow, and again, after clicking "Save Configuration" it takes me to the default homepage with no changes made to the colors.

So 1. I'm either missing a step that I haven't read in any of the how-to's I've read, or 2. Something is wrong with my installation of Drupal 6.

Please help, BTW, this site is live on a webhost at www.careerbite.com

Thanks again in advance.
Hux

It seems to be something with installation!

dia assada commented 21 February 2009 at 10:48

I tried to create new account in your site and when I submitted my name and password it toke me silently to the home page.
See if my account has been registered or not has been recognized at all..!!
note:sorry if there is some mistakes in my English

I checked the accounts, and

huxly commented 21 February 2009 at 23:28

I checked the accounts, and the only account listed is my Admin account. Your account did not save.

But why your drupal shows

dia assada commented 21 February 2009 at 11:13

But why your drupal shows your logo!, if it accepted that, why did not accept the other changes?!
See if you have installed new modules, deactivate them and try the site, because some modules seem to be a cause of some quirky results.

If you mean the site name

huxly commented 21 February 2009 at 23:30

If you mean the site name "www.careerbite.com" that showed up when i initially created the site. I have not been successful installing any new themes or modules. Again, everytime I try something is takes me to the homepage and no changes are made.

Mystery!?

dia assada commented 22 February 2009 at 18:51

Have you tried to create contents and promote them to frontpage? if so, and nothing displayed( sure, nothing displayed because it's the default welcome page that I've seen), then I think you missed something with the installation, or done it the wrong way, I don't mean the information you gave during installation, like database, pass..etc, but I think the structure of the files of the default installation has been changed in a way or another, because you're using the same package that everyone else is using and no one got what you've got.
Stay in touch please and let us know how things are going, and I hope we will find out a fix to this (as a member wants to help as much as I can, not as an expert or so..).

Maybe it was GoDaddy...

huxly commented 14 May 2009 at 22:31

For anyone who is wondering what the outcome of this issue was. Well, I was never able to figure it out. During the time I was having this issue, I was using GoDaddy as the hosting service. I moved the site over to hostgater.com, and I installed Drupal using the same steps and everything works fine under HostGator. Nothing I tried fixed the issue while under GoDaddy, I still don't know if that had anything to do with it, but it feels like GoDaddy was the culprit here.

Hux