By joshua2046 on

Hi,
Hummm......
Finally I find that I 'm a rookie.
Before drupal , I used "index.html " in my space ,and that is my home page ,naturally.
But,
How to sit my home page ,I mean in drupal.

I need your help.

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nevets commented

Look in the documentation under "Getting Started", you may find The Drupal Cookbook (for beginners) useful.

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cog.rusty commented

Where you used to start from index.html, with Drupal you start from index.php.

However, index,php is not a page, it is a program, and you can set up what you want it to show at the front page. Normally it shows a list of your recent posts, but you can change it easily later.

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joshua2046 commented

I have been set up the front page in drupal.
But ,seemed no work.
visiter find out nothing in my website.unless,they type like this :
"domain name".com/drupal-6.11/index.php
how let the it display the front page directly ? Only need type like this:
"domain name".com

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cog.rusty commented

You need to do two things:
- Upload drupal's files directly in your domain's root and not inside a drupal-6.11 directory, so that you don't need to browse to /drupal-6.11.
- Make sure that you have Drupal's .htaccess file, which contains the line DirectoryIndex index.php, so that you don't need to type "index.php". If your server can't use .htaccess files, then you will need to do this in the server's configuration.

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joshua2046 commented

".htaccess " no any work about it .

I upload Drupal under the "wwwroot" files.
there is many files in my space :wwwroot,database,and logfiles ..
your mean ,
I just need upload Drupal in my domain's root? not in any one of them?
when I open the root files ,should be like this :wwwroot,database,logfiles, drupal?
is that right?
>_<
disaster.....

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cog.rusty commented

Before Drupal, you were browsing to http://yoursite.com and the server was finding your index.html file.

With Drupal, when you browse to http://yoursite.com, again the server must find Drupal's index.php file at the same place, and index.php must find all the other Drupal files around it as they are in the package.

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joshua2046 commented

I terminated my Drupal,
I'll get back.

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joshua2046 commented

I realized that ,I do not need run Mysqul ,PHP,Apche something in my computer.
I want let the Drupal binding with my website.I mean ,I wanna Drupal install on the hosting,and I could operate my webiste in anywhere.
Is anyone else did it before?or not?
Miaaaa..ha ha ha ha.
but...ahhh
How they resolved the homepage problem? change the url?change php file?
is that possible?

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cog.rusty commented

What homepage problem? Everything is possible.

You can upload Drupal in your web root directory, or you can point your domain name to the directory where Drupal is (if the hosting plan which you have paid allows it), or you can upload Drupal wherever you want and access it with an URL path.

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joshua2046 commented

here is the link
http://www.ehow.com/how_4858748_install-drupal-servers.html#
I just follow this direction to intall Drupal in my hosting step by step.
thank god....that is what I want.
It's so great.
The hosting taype is various ,but the method was the same.
Maybe someday ,you can get a try.