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Drupal 6 Content Administration

By : J. Ayen Green
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Drupal 6 Content Administration

By: J. Ayen Green

Overview of this book

Often a company hires a web designer to build its Drupal site, and then takes over running the site in house. This book is for the Content Editors concerned with the ongoing creation and maintenance of the site content. In a few hours, you'll have the knowledge needed to maintain and edit your web site as a content-rich place that visitors return to again and again. There are many books available to help you administer a Drupal site, but this is the only one specifically for Content Editors. This book doesn't cover designing or creating a site. However, anybody who has built their own site but needs some help using the article management features will also benefit from it. This book is a quick-start guide, aimed at Content Editors. The author's experience enables him to explain in an efficient and interactive manner how you can keep your site up to date. The book begins with a discussion of content management and Drupal and then teaches you how to create content, add elements to it, and make the content findable. You will then learn to set up the framework for a creative team and the various options for editing content offline, their benefits and pitfalls. This book helps you to quickly and easily solve problems, and manage content and users for a web site. It will help you become a more effective and efficient manager of Drupal-based web sites.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Drupal 6 Content Administration
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
Preface

Creating the database


When running the Drupal installation, it expects a database to already exist, so we'll create one.

There's little to creating a database other than running the appropriate tool, such as MySQL, and giving the database a name and a password. Make a note of these, because you'll need this information in the next step. You'll also need to know the name of the database user, which on many systems is the same as the database. If you're using something like WAMP on a PC, then the database user might simply be root.

The final piece of information needed will be the database server. Again, if you're running the server on your workstation, or a dedicated server, the database server might just be localhost. If you're on a shared hosting account, then you'll need to click on the icon near the database name to get information, and make a note of the database server address, which will look like a long domain name. We're going to name our database drupal_6_11. You should have a list ready to use during the installation that looks something like this:

  • User name: root (don't use this on a real system)

  • Password: MyDbPass123$ (don't make it easy)

  • DB Name: drupal_6_11

  • DB Server: mydbserver001.myserverdomain.net