UTOSC 2008/Drupal: From Blank to Blog in 30 Minutes

Slides: http://www.idksoftware.com/UTOSC/BlankToBlog/slides/

Some Drupal modules may have problems with PostgreSQL, as Druapl grew up originally using MySQL only.

To strip to level path: tar --strip=1 ...

Create default site settings cp sites/default/default.settings.php sites/default/settings.php chmod 664 sites/default/settings.php mkdir sites/default/files chmod 775 sites/default/files
 * 1) uploaded files will be stored here

Finish install. Fix settings permissions: chmod 644 sites/default/settings.php

Clean URLs if your server supports MOD Rewrite

Extract new modules to /modules/

image module and image assist module will allow images in blogs.