New to Drupal where to install drupal, & use vbulletin too?

Posted by JuJu_Kelly on February 25, 2009 at 6:47pm

I am new to drupal. for my website I want my chosen drupal theme to be the design of most if not all of my website including the homepage. I am going to be using vbulletin for the forum of my site. What directory do I put druapl in (so that it's the main design of pages.)

Also what about vbDrupal & Drupal vb? I think when I purchase vbulletin I will be putting vbadvanced in the root & vbulletin in the froum directory.

I would also like to keep the urls simple example: www.mysite.com (homepage), www.mysite.com/features, www.mysite.com/forum, www.mysite.com/shopp & so on.

I currently have druapl 6.9 in it's own directory.
Any help would be great. I am new to this but eager to learn & get the website going.
Thank :)

Comments

Integrating

Posted by einsteinsboi on February 25, 2009 at 7:00pm

Shouldn't be too difficult.

The Drupal VB module should help with the integration part of it - http://drupal.org/project/drupalvb. Details on how to get it working are here: http://cvs.drupal.org/viewvc.py/drupal/contributions/modules/drupalvb/RE...

for the urls, make sure you enable clean urls, enable path module and install pathauto module. In pathauto settings you can create rules so that every page you create automatically has the url correctly formatted. It really isn't hard to do. Work on it on your local machine first and ask questions here as you go and we'll help you out.

The Path module comes with the core Drupal install but you have to enable it.
You can download the Pathauto module here: http://drupal.org/project/pathauto

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Thanks, I have enabled the

Posted by JuJu_Kelly on February 26, 2009 at 1:25am

Thanks, I have enabled the clean urls. I will look into drupal vb more. About where to install drupal right now since it is in it's own directory I access it through mysite.com/drupal. How can I use my theme on all the pages including homepage? Does drupal need to be installed in the root? Sorry, I'm a newby to all this :) This is a total beginner question. How do I get my images & text...into the theme. I have my webpage concept, know a little coding & am good @ tinkering but I don't know where to start.My host is godaddy & I am using their FTP to upload stuff. I just don't know where to put what & how.

Any help? I learn fast :)

Are you doing your development on live server or..

Posted by techywoman on February 26, 2009 at 12:54am

on a local test server?

Hi Juju, Did you have any

Posted by brainfood on March 24, 2009 at 10:08pm

Hi Juju,

Did you have any luck with integrating vBulletin and Drupal?

I am setting up vBulleting for my forums and using drupal for my custom pages that VB will not support. I am wanting to have a single login for both and have found a resource that does this Drupal vB http://drupal.org/project/drupalvb.

I am curious if onyone has used this before? How are the profile fields handled in vBulletin and Drupal if this is installed? Does the user have the ability to modify their profiles seperately? Are the profiles fields some how integrated and updated together when a change is made in one profile?