Tutorial

Some friend told me to share my experience using drupal. They think drupal very difficult, not like other CMS (Content Management System). Do drupal so difficult and complicated?
I'll try to write simple tutorial about drupal, hopefully it could help you to learn. If you are reading drupal handbook perhaps you'll get confused, so many terms and words that we don't understand. Yes, it is drupal. First time everything seems difficult and you'll need an extra attention but in the end you will know why are you choose it.

1. Installation

We can use automatic drupal installation using Fantastico and for the beginner it will be easier.

Drupal Installation using Fantastico

I thought Google earth is only for Windows user, but I am wrong. We can also run Google earth in Linux. Just like my other article, Google earth installation in Ubuntu is quite simple. Same as Skype, Google earth also not included in any Ubuntu repository. We have to use medibuntu repository.

Installation

We have to  add medibuntu repository in order to have Google earth installed.
I am using Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy with amd64 machine. Other Ubuntu
distribution can use the list from here.

There are many words and terms in drupal we should to know. It will help you learn drupal.

Blocks
are boxes of content that may be rendered into certain regions of your web pages. Blocks can be placed in various content areas. They are usually generated automatically by modules, but administrators can create blocks manually.

Menus
are a collection of links (menu items) used to navigate a website.

About Skype

Skype is proprietary software that allows you to make calls over the Internet using your computer. Skype uses decentralized peer-to-peer technologies, so your calls do not go through a central server, but through distributed servers and other users. It uses its own proprietary communication protocol to achieve this. In addition, all communications are encrypted from end to end so that others cannot listen in. The Skype software is free to use, but it is not free software; the source code is proprietary and not available for modification.

Install Skype

Skype is not available in any Ubuntu software repository, and therefore cannot be installed with Ubuntu's package management software such as Synaptic or apt-get without adding a repository containing Skype. There are two options - the Skype repository, or the Medibuntu repository.

1. Medibuntu Repository

I have another sites, www.erakomputer.com, and it was build using Drupal 6.2. I thought Drupal 6 must be better than the previous versions so I decided to use it. But that's wrong -- perhaps until right now,  we can't find contributed modules in Drupal 6 as much as in Drupal 5. For example adsense modules. Until today in Drupal site, adsense modules only available for drupal 4 and 5.

So, I decided to use a block and put manually my adsense code there.

Administrator >> Site building >> Blocks >> Add Block

Then activate the block. But it not working. The adsense code show as a text in a block.

I want to share my experience when I had problem with Grub error. It was in one of my company PC server. The PC use as Database mirror and fortunatelly for me the PC it self dont have direct impact to the other systems. Here are some actions when I am trying to fix the problem.

If we have create one execution file, for example  in /usr/local/bin/mirror . Can we put this file as init script file and always run while startup and everytime our linux system will check it ??? Off course we can use cron to make it a routine execution file, but I will use other way.

Here are my experience when I am trying to have an init script :

First chmod 755 /usr/local/bin/mirror :

[email protected]:$ sudo chmod 755 /usr/local/bin/mirror

[email protected]:$ sudo vi /etc/init.d/mirror

#! /bin/sh

/usr/local/bin/mirror >/dev/null 2>&1 &