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Making a multi-language site

Add other languages

Go to the following menu to add the language(s) you have uploaded together with Drupal:

Home›Administer›Site configuration›Languages

  • Click on ‘Add language’, select the language and click ‘Add language’.

Remark: If you have the choice, it is better to …

Configuring Drupal 6

When Drupal 6 is installed, the following modules are already available and activated.

Core (required):

  • Block - Controls the boxes that are displayed around the main content
  • Filter - Handles the filtering of content in preparation for display
  • Node - Allows content to be submitted to the site and …
Drupal multi-site installation

This post is a part of the Drupal 6 installation description, which you can find here: Installation of Drupal 6.

What is multi-site?

To have a multi-site Drupal installation, all domains has to point to the directory where Drupal is installed, which are called domain aliases. When browsing to a …

Installation of Drupal 6

Before installing

The recommendations for Drupal 6 are:

  • Appache 1.3 or 2.X hosted on UNIX/Linux
  • MySQL 4.1 or 5.0
  • At least 3MB of disk space

More details about requirements you can find here: drupal.org/requirements

This installation description is written to install Drupal 6 at a hosting provider, …

Internal website links in Drupal

To make the links other posts more domain name independent, it would be nice to have internal links.

By default Drupal does not have this feature, but it is possible by using PathFilter.

PathFilter

PathFilter translate a relative internal path to a full URL. This module integrates with the Drupal …

Redirect URL’s after removing an installed language

If you look to your current URL for this website, you will see a path-prefix /en, because this post in English.

This site is also in Dutch (/nl) and it was also possible to switch to Czech (/cs). This was only to switch the menu’s to the Czech language, so I wanted it to remove this language. …

Howto translate my website information in Drupal

With the i18n module, it is possible to make a Drupal site multilingual, but the data such as site name, slogan, mission, etc. are not translated. But with a trick it is possible.

Adding Variables

Open the file: /sites/default/settings.php and add the following text:

/*
* Multilingual settings
*
* …
White pages in Drupal admin

Some of the Drupal Admin pages did not work.

For example the menu: Home »Administer» Site Construction »Menus» Navigation

The problem seemed to be solved after disabling the various modules. But when I went looking for the module what causes the trouble, it was a bit random. In short, the problem …

Setting up XML sitemaps module in drupal 6.X

As part of setting up my Drupal site I installed the XML Sitemap ModuleTaken from the project page: “XML Sitemap automatically creates a site map that conforms to the sitemaps.org specification. This helps search engines keep their search results up to date“.  This is an important part of helping …