{"id":56,"date":"2023-05-13T07:43:20","date_gmt":"2023-05-13T12:43:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blognasium.net\/?p=56"},"modified":"2023-05-13T07:57:01","modified_gmt":"2023-05-13T12:57:01","slug":"almost-drupal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blognasium.net\/?p=56","title":{"rendered":"Almost Drupal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>As can easily be seen, Blognasium is clearly a WordPress website. This wasn\u2019t my first intention.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-link-color wp-elements-3d422eb704562d4028364b91943b7a40\">I really wanted to give another Content Management System (CMS) called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.drupal.org\/home\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Drupal<\/a> a try.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I have used Drupal years ago. It\u2019s similar to Joomla but I found much more demanding to manage. It\u2019s a CMS that is really designed for the advanced web manger.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Drupal is community supported freeware like Joomla and WordPress. So no cost other than time to give it a try,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Website construction is just another hobby activity for me as I enjoy the challenge. That is why I have so many. I thought Drupal would give me another challenge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That turned out to be true.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The base upload package is huge. 18,000 files! Yeah eighteen thousand. It includes an optional complete <strong>operational<\/strong> test site so is certainly the reason for all the files. Using FileZilla it is a very lengthly upload to my server.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But there was a problem. Drupal couldn\u2019t recognize the Apache version my web server uses. The Apache version is well above the version number required by Drupal.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is probably the reason the service I use for the server does not offer Drupal as a package available on their system.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I spent most of a day deleting and reloading Drupal in attempt to get it running. There was always a warning about not discovering the Apache version. But I was always permitted to continue the installation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Drupal would open after each install but I was always denied access to the \u201cback end\u201d There was always a .htaccess file missing. I could not find an example htaccess.txt file (like Joomla provides) in the root directory to even see what is supposed to be in that file.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So that became the \u201ckiller error\u201d as far as me using Drupal on this host system with my 18 other websites.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I briefly considered building a LAMP stack on a new server on AWS. I have done that before. But that is another whole new avenue to explore. I am not quite eager to go there yet. But it is not completely off my list.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The result is Blognasium is an easy WordPress install. Well, not exactly easy. But it definitely works well on the host system I am using.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There is still enough challenge building up a raw RAW WordPress website, but certainly a lot easier than breaking into Drupal territory again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Drupal claims about ten percent of the world\u2019s operating websites. So it is a large install number but a small percentage. I am one who has tried but denied access. I\u2019ll mark this one as a good try but no cigar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There will be another try. Just because it is there. I just need a host with the \u201cright stuff\u201d for Drupal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As can easily be seen, Blognasium is clearly a WordPress website. 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