drupal on linux?

[Mark Woodward]

With Drupal on the top of my head (I just upgraded a couple sites) I can 
offer some suggestions.

Drupal's model is very much database dependent. That is good in some 
ways but problematic in others. It is difficult, for instance, to change 
databases from MySQL to PostgreSQL. You more or less have the choose 
correctly the first time. (hint use PostgreSQL)

Second, the mainstream modules and content are fairly stable and work 
fine with PG, a lot of 3rd party modules may assume MySQL and not 
function correctly with PG.

Lastly, and this is important, while the raw structure of your site may 
be defined in the theme, the content is defined in the database. One of 
the things that drupal uses is the idea of "blocks" to layout content. 
These blocks are defined in the database along with the content, 
comments, and the users. All in one big messy mess. This means you can't 
stage and deploy changes to a site. You have to apply them live. This is 
a problem for me as I come from a world where you work on a "dev" site, 
and then apply changes that have been through QA to the live site. There 
was no automated way of doing this with drupal. This may be a deal 
breaker in some environments.

www.linuxpcrobot.org and www.mohawksoft.org are both drupal 6.20 running 
on PostgrSQL.

As for books? I hate to say it, don't waste your money.  drupal.org's 
main site has some good docs. Setup an experimental site and play around.

On 02/16/2011 12:00 PM, discuss-request-mNDKBlG2WHs at public.gmane.org wrote:
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> From: "R. Luoma"<nobluspam5476-MTb9uo0rH9eJIAd+swBSYQ at public.gmane.org>
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> I need to do an evaluation of
> Drupal for a website content management system.
>
> While Drupal is available through the package
> managers, I am trying to figure out
> how to get started.
>
> Do anyone have suggestions for tutorials/books?
>
> (I do realize that some gentle readers
> favor other systems such as Plone)
>
> Thanks,
> -- R. Luoma