Please note, drupal module has been removed from Core as of Drupal 6. It will instead be available as the contrib "site_network" module.

The Drupal module uses the XML-RPC network communication protocol to connect your site with a directory server.

Enabling the Drupal module will:

This information is superseded by newer tutorials:

• Create new content-type for Drupal 5.x
• Create new content-type for Drupal 6.x

The Blog API module, included in Drupal 5 & 6 and available via the separate BlogAPI contrib module for Drupal 7, enables a post to be published to a site via external GUI applications. Many users prefer to use external tools to improve legibility and posting responses in a customized way. The Blog API module provides users the freedom to use the blogging tools they want but still have the blogging server of choice.

When this module is enabled and configured, you can use a variety of programs to create and publish posts from your desktop. Blog API module supports several XML-RPC based blogging APIs such as the Blogger API (outdated) (new Blogger Data API, MetaWeblog API, and most of the Movable Type API.

For more information on using software with the Blog API, see the Creating new content section of the End user Guide.

Note:

Drupal 6 installations should use the site network module : http://drupal.org/project/site_network

Distributed authentication

One of most dreaded obstacles users are confronted with these days is the need to continually create new accounts for themselves at every website they come across. Logging into a website to check out it's features should be a fun process, not a chore. Forcing each visiting user to create a new account by filling out your carefully crafted registration form is tedious, boring, and repulsive. Luckily for Drupal users, there's a built in system that removes a lot of this drudgery. It's called Distributed Authentication, and it's built into the core.

For example, on groups.drupal.org, you do not have to fill out a registration form if you are already a member of drupal.org. This capability is fantastic for getting users to instantaneously interact with your site if they happen to already be a member of a sister site.

Enabling the feature

To enable this feature, turn on the 'drupal' module at Administer > Site Building > Modules (D5), and configure it at Administer > Site Configuration > Distributed authentication.

The Settings

Authentication service: Enabled
Default authentication server: (the URL of the master authentication server)

As of this writing, the current version of Apache is 2.2.4 and PHP is 5.2.2.

1. Download the Apache Windows MSI Installer from Apache.org
2. Download the PHP Windows Zip Package from PHP.net.

The first step to getting Drupal running on your Windows machine is to set up the Apache web server by running the Apache MSI installer. The following steps will walk you through the installation:

Note that starting with Drupal 6.x, Watchdog has been replaced by the dblog and syslog modules. Dblog is similar to watchdog; Syslog allows Drupal's logging to be integrated with the server's syslog facility.