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Many customers opt to use a CMS due to being technically-challenged; Drupal is NOT the CMS for these individuals.
===== I have a pissy customer on the phone and don't know what to check =====
Drupal-users are usually professional web developers. As such, most have logically focused their intellectual
First: Determine whether or not the customer is the developer; this allows you to gauge what they'll know.
efforts on moar-phun subjects, like coding and graphic-design, rather than learn anything about that boring metal box down
Then: Determine the answers to the following questionsAny you can answer 'yes' to, will be your starting point:
at the Liquid Loaf used to host their always-flawless sites afterwardsGet my drift?  If not, try googling about for
"humor as an inherently rhetorical discourse"


===== File Structure =====
===== File Structure =====

Revision as of 09:34, 3 January 2011


Warning: do NOT make direct edits to Drupal-related .php files!


Warning: Drupal is too resource intensive to run well on VPS1 servers!


Notice: Do Not Use This Guide!!!

Drup tards

drupal.org

I have a pissy customer on the phone and don't know what to check

First: Determine whether or not the customer is the developer; this allows you to gauge what they'll know. Then: Determine the answers to the following questions. Any you can answer 'yes' to, will be your starting point:

File Structure

While all PHP-based CMS-packages perform what can basically be considered the same task, differences in functionality and scalability arise out of how those tasks are performed. Drupal File Structure

Versionen

There are three versions of Drupal presently in widespread use. Determining which version a customer is using should always be your first step after exhausting obvious explanations for whatever their issue might be.

Drupal 5.x

Compare the Apache PHP handler against the permissions in your customer's troublesome directory. Are they using SuPHP?

Drupal 6.x

Das Inhalt ist noch zukommend.

Drupal 7.x

Hab' doch g'rad g'sagt das i' es hab'n werde wenn's mir auch lohnt~!

Common Causes of Issues in Order of Frequency

Your first step should be to ignore whatever bits of misinformation the customer is giving you. Remember, these people are web developers; this means they usually have no idea

PHP

Drupal

MySQL
cPanel