Use Microsoft's Web PI to Make Installing Joomla on a Windows Server Simple: Installing and configuring Joomla on a Windows server used to be a difficult and time consuming task. While some people still opt to run a completely manual install, it simply isn't necessary. Joomla has now been added to the Microsoft Web Platform Installer 2.0 (Web PI), which has made the entire process much easier. You no longer need to download and install all of the complimentary programs such as SQL and IIS independently.
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Screenshots of a Drupal 7 Install
Earlier this week, I announced a new site that I'm working on under the domain SocPub.com. What I didn't say in the announcement was which CMS I was going to use for the site. I also didn't say that my choice in the CMS version could be considered by some as risky. I have decided to use the alpha/beta/release candidates of Drupal 7 for the SocPub site.
Using an alpha version of any CMS for a production site is never recommended, but I have some personal reasons for why I want to do this. No doubt, there will be bumps in the road using these early versions of Drupal 7. However, I'm hoping the benefits outweigh the risks and in a small way testing early versions of Drupal 7 may offer me an opportunity to give back to the Drupal community. For example, installing Drupal 7 has allowed me to collect some screenshots of a Drupal 7 Alpha 1 install.
If someone wants to use the screenshots below for one of the image galleries at Drupal.org or any Drupal community site, then permission is granted to use the images.
Using the above image, one of the first things you will notice is that you now have a choice in the type of Drupal install you would like to do. Currently, you have a choice between a "Standard" install or a "Minimal" install. I personally never like to make things more difficult than they should be and so I recommend you select "Standard".
As the image above reminds us, Drupal 7 has some server requirements that must be considered. Is PHP 5.2 or greater available on your server? Have you initiated your settings file correctly? In Drupal 7 this walk-through is improved by letting you know Drupal's latest requirements and giving you some hints on how to resolve potential install issues.
Drupal Database Configuration
Database configuration for a clean install.
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Press Release: InstallationWiki.org Promises to ease the Software Installation Process
August 2007
New Website Launched that Promises to ease the Software Installation Process
InstallationWiki.org is a new website designed to provide users with comprehensive, free guides to installing software. Launching on August 6, 2007, the website will largely be driven and populated by content supplied and edited by experts, and hopes to bridge the gap between software experts and software users.
Quality, relevant and free information on installing software is often difficult to find, especially when new versions and editions are being released on a regular basis. The aim of InstallationWiki.org is to provide people with a one-stop source of information for installing whichever piece of software they’re working with.
The Installation Wiki will provide myriad benefits for a variety of individuals; acting as a resource for software users, whilst supporting the software community through gaining exposure for their respective programs.
Drupal Newbies and Contributed Modules
The Newbie IssueI received an interesting e-mail the other day through the contact form at my site regarding the social bookmarking "features" I have for my posts. The questions asked to me are quite common among new users of any Web content management system. While the questions in this particular e-mail I received would be more appropriate to be asked and answered in the forums at Drupal.org, there were some things in the message I felt the need to address though my blog.
The first e-mail went like this:
I am new to Drupal publishing, and I noticed your "Bookmark/Search this post with: Delicious Digg Google Yahoo Technorati Icerocket " feature. How did you code that? Or- where could I find out how to do that? I have searched Drupal.org but find it frustrating to search, and searching for modules is so frustrating I gave up. Scrolling through the categories is about the best I could do. I found the Submit to Digg one- but your system seems so much more simple.The second e-mail though is what caught my attention and depending on interpretation somewhat alarmed me.
hi - right after I wrote my note I looked at your code a little harder and figured it out! sorry for the bother!For the record in order to get those links to the various social bookmarking sites, I use the service links module, a Drupal contributed module. What concerned me about the e-mail is that when the writer looked at the source code of my web page, I'm not sure if he concluded the correct module to use with his CMS or how to "hard code" the links manually into his site. Either way, new users of Drupal tend to make things more difficult on themselves then need be. This is my attempt to simplify things for those of you for those just trying out Drupal for the first time and are having a hard time hunting down those extra features.
Bryght: Best practices for maintaining Drupal installs
"I finally got around to stopping by the IBM developerworks forums and leaving some feedback for the folks that are doing the great series of articles on developing a site with Drupal. They're diving all the way down into developing modules, including explaining Drupal's hook system, which is great to see... So, that little post about keeping all modules in your local "sites" folder is just the start of best practices. Pretty much every Drupal install I work with is multi-site."
