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Acquia Drupal

Acquia Drupal Website, Part 7

Drupal Aquia Website

Modules Modules provide a way of adding functions to your Drupal website without having to build them from scratch. Modules have a variety of uses and are contributed by Drupal developers and users. We have already gone through turning off one module that came preinstalled with our Drupal install: the Acquia Connector. Some modules require [...]

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Acquia Drupal Website, Part 6

Drupal Aquia Website

Site Information Settings There are a few changes here that will be helpful, including being able to tell Drupal the name of your own custom homepage. This administration page is found at… Site Configuration> Site Information The entry on the page is for the Site Name. This is the name that shows up on the [...]

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Acquia Drupal Website, Part 5

Drupal Aquia Website

Setting Up my Homepage This following will  leave out an explanation of what is behind a few of the these steps. Bear with me as many of the things you will want to know more about will be explained in later posts. I am doing things this way because when I first started with Drupal [...]

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Acquia Drupal Website, Part 4

Drupal Aquia Website

Acquia Drupal Website Housekeeping The following steps are in no particular order but are some must do steps to get my website ready for use. The site is already live now but has no content other than the generic Acquia Drupal pages that come with the install. Administrator Pages and Navigation There are many pages [...]

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Acquia Drupal Website, Part 3

Drupal Aquia Website

Internal Drupal Housekeeping The basic Drupal core installation has two files included that influence how your pages are served and indexed. Both of these are in the root directory of Drupal’s installlation files. Robots.txt The robots text file settings allow you to set up rules for how your website’s pages are indexed. This can be [...]

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Acquia Drupal Website, Part 2

Drupal Aquia Website

These directions are just another way of explaining what is found at the Drupal Acquia site. Domain Name and DNS My domain name,  learnlocalhistory.com (go here to see the learn local history website), was set up so that the DNS server names listed by my domain name registrar were pointed to my host server. If [...]

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Acquia Drupal Website, Part 1

Drupal Aquia Website

The is the beginning of an N part series about setting up an Acquia Drupal website.  I am using a remote host and my own domain name. My purpose in doing this is to have a record of what I am doing and, if anyone finds this and they find some value in my writing, [...]

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