Basic Site Settings, File Configurations

Status Report - Run Cron Manually And File System Setting

Go to your Drupal web site at http://www.my_domain.com/.

Select > Administer

Notice the red highlight and 'status report'.

(continue) > status report

Notice: red highlights 'Cron maintenance tasks - never run' and 'File system - not writable'.

(continue) > run cron manually [note: we configure cron jobs another time] > file system settings page

Notice: Message "The directory files has been created". A new folder 'files' is automatically created at cPanel /public_html/files. We shall check this later.

(continue) > Save configuration > Administer

Notice: the red highlight is no longer there.

[scroll down] > [Logs] > Status report

Notice: All green, 'Cron last run' and 'File system Writable'.
For security purpose, it is essential to have all green ticks i.e. good to go.

Site Configuration - Set Clean URLs

Select > Administer

Put your cursor at say, 'Site building', notice the path at bottom-left like:-
http://www.my_domain.com/?q=admin/build

(continue) > Site configuration > Clean URLs > Run the clean URL test [page should refreshed] > [Clean URLs] Enabled] > Save configuration

Put your cursor again at 'Site building', the path is now:-
http://www.my_domain.com/admin/build

'Clean URLs' has taken away the '?q=' thing.

Learn How To FTP files here

Other Quick Site Settings

Select > Administer > Site configuration > Site information > [Name] My_Domain.com > [E-mail address] adam@my_domain.com > [Slogan] 'the slogan line here' > [Footer message,type] Copyright © 2007 My_Domain.com All Rights Reserved > Save configuration.

Select > Administer > Site configuration > Date and time > [Default time zone] > [scroll down, for Malaysia select] Day date/time+800 > [Configurable time zones] Disabled > Save configuration.

cPanel - Check To See Newly Created 'files' Folder

Go to http://www.my_domain.com/cpanel

Select > File Manager > Go

Notice: the /files is 775.