1. Wilson Wingston Sharon wingston.sharon@gmail.com Configuring drupal

2. Test site on your wamp server is localhost/mysite This equates to www.mysite.com on the web when your site is deployed. Localhost/mysite/?q=node/1 www.mysite.com/node/1

3. Go to localhost/mysite

4. Things to remember Keep a test site apart from live site. Perfection is an ideal concept. Start with the basics Get support at drupal.org

5. Basic drupal configuration Click on Administer>>site config link Check out the site configuration section First check out site information,enter basic details about site. Front page can be changed from here

6. Admin>>site building>>modules Blog Book Contact Forum Path Php filter Profile Search Statistics Syslog tracker

7. Clean URLS http://localhost/mysite/?q=admin/settings/clean-urls http://localhost/mysite/admin/settings/clean-urls Server support required. Easier to manage complex paths. Pathatuo module gives automatic path aliasing.

8. Date and time

9. File System When site is deployed online, use a ftp client like filezilla and CREATE required directories in cgi-bin folder of your site and redirect these paths there. These directories for security purposes must not be accessible from the web directly.

10. performance

11. Maintainance In this mode go to localhost/mysite/?q=user to login as administrator

12. Admin>>Reports If you’r site seems to malfunction you might to able to pinpoint the module causing the problem at recent log entries. Status report tells you if theres a major problem with site in general. Other general site statistics available only if statistics module is enabled and configured.

13. Things to remember Disable Unnecessary Core Modules Color Aggregator Don’t keep unused modules enabled Enable Necessary Core Modules Path Search statistics

14. Things to remember Navigation Install administration menu module. The module renders all administrative menu items below 'administer' in a clean, attractive and purely CSS-based menu at the top of your website. Tune your SEO Use Nodewords,page title and global redirect for a SEO firendly website. Use robots.txt to avoid duplicate content.

15. BACKUP, BACKUP and then keep one more BACKUP Backup and Migrate module takes care of everything… Keep file backups from site cpanel menu. Use a good server hosting service Look at a lot of hosting providers. Look for the drupal icon for compatibility. Ask for 96mb of php memory. [more if you have insane number of modules]