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Monday, September 27, 2010

Installing Modules (unit 5)

I decided to add the Page_title module to my Drupal site. According to Drupal.org, this module allows granular control over the page title display. After downloading the contents of this file to my desktop, I realized that I could just use the command line to add this module by referring to the download link in the release notes and using the command line instructions in the tech activity. After downloading via the vm, and going back into Administer > site building > modules on my drupal database, it showed that this module was disabled because it required an integrated token module. So I found this module’s release notes on drupal.org and from the vm executed the same commands to download this module. I was really excited when the page_title module was enabled after downloading the token module. I would imagine that the more modules you download, however, the more complicated the back end of the drupal site becomes.

The only part of this week's exercises where I got stuck was when trying to configure the faceted search in the VM, but I was able to figure things out after realizing that I had a misplaced asterisk. I also got stuck at the command line when trying to download the Date module, however in one of the activity posts Bruce supplied alternate text that worked instead.

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