Editing Acquia Drupal - HowTo

mishalini posted this at 03:46 — 15th January 2010.

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Dear all,

I'm required to build a support website using Acquia Drupal. I have done a manual installation of the CMS according to its Getting Started Guide. I use WAMP server. My objective is to edit/customize the back end codes/framework and develop it to be suitable for my website. Again, i'm planning to develop it on localhost.

My issues are:-
1. I dunno where/which are the back end (.php/.js files) to be edited.
2. How to add a new site (remember: i did a manual installation & not using the stack)
3. Why the homepage of my website is appearing but the browser says "file cannot be found on the server" for other pages in the same site?

I have no seniors or mentors to ask and i really need a kind someone to enlighten me on the issues above.

Thanks in advance!

Megan posted this at 16:19 — 15th January 2010.

She has: 11,421 posts

Joined: Jun 1999

1. That depends on what you want to do. You should never change core modules. If you want to change the default behaviour you should check for contrib modules that do what you want or write your own custom module or functions. You should also avoid editing contrib modules without contributing back to the project (think about what would happen when you need to upgrade).

2. Check the readme documentation about multisite. Basically, you need to add a new folder for each site with their own modues and themes folders and a settings.php file.

3. Sounds like something could be wrong with the rewrite rules? I remember the first time I installed Drupal I had some trouble getting the .htaccess right.

Megan
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