By Rudolf-1 on

Hi.

There's a site running on an old Movable Type install that I'd like to convert to an open-source CMS. I would like to change as little as possible to the site and how it works -- in particular, I would like to preserve its URL scheme, the section breakdown, and the user permissions. Drupal, however, doesn't seem to be able to handle this.

In more detail: The main parts of the old site consists of three "weblogs" (in the technical Movable Type sense), two of them with multiple contributors. The blog up front lives in the Web root, both other blogs each have a home directory of their own.

There are three things I like in this setup that don't seem to translate to Drupal:

01 Hierarchical URL scheme. The three blogs each have a subdirectory where the posts are archived, and this directory structure is reflected in the URLs generated, leading to hierarchical "section" breakdown even in the URLs.

02 Customised sections. As each blog can be templated individually, the output of each site section can be adapted and finetuned to the requirements of that specific section.

03 Easy user management. Site contributors either are signed up to a given blog, or they are not (they are signed up on the assumption that they will contribute to any of these blogs -- it is not assumed that they need, or will ever get, a blog of their own on that site).

The lack of URLs reflecting a section breakdown bugs me the most since I think of hierarchical URL schemes as a norm from which Drupal's URL scheme deviates.

URL aliasing obiously isn't the answer to this problem because it would have to be added manually to every entry created.

The Category module, while introducing hierarchical categories, apparently doesn't allow me to have the hierarchy reflected in the URL.

Is there some way of doing in Druapl what I want to do?