Installation Issues of Station
Ok after a year of considering Station I have finally installed it and ready to use it for my Internet Radio Network, however I have some issues with install. I am not a programmer but with instructions I can manage:
- I don't know what possessed me but I have installed Drupal in it's own directory so when I go to my Url I do not get Drupal-how do I change that?
An instance of Drupal was installed on http://realcoachingradio.net
Full installation path: /home/realcoac/public_html/drupal
Public URL: http://realcoachingradio.net/drupal/
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I have installed all of the modules required, everything is green however now what? is there a manual somewhere that I don't know about in what sequence I input things such as radio show, schedule, etc...
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Is there a recommended structure of a theme? couldn't find anything about the type of theme that's required
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The schedule I have installed works on the hour only, I have shows that start at 5:30PM how do I fix that?
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PHP upload file size limited to 25MB where do I change that most of my shows are between 50-60MB?
Your general question seems
Your general question seems to be, "How do I use Drupal?"
Here's a list of Drupal-related books. The introductory ones such as O'Reilly's "Using Drupal" may be what you're looking for. A company called Lullabot also makes how-to videos about Drupal available on DVD or for download; here's their introductory one.
As for how to get to your Drupal installation at your site's base URL instead of a subdirectory, simply move all of the Drupal files from the public_html/drupal directory to the public_html one. You should then flush your site's cache (Administration > Site configuration > Performance), as this move may confuse some modules.
Ok, let me try to answer some of these...
I'm a little rusty with the Station module, but I have learned quite a bit about Drupal, so let me try to answer some of your questions.
Ok after a year of considering Station I have finally installed it and ready to use it for my Internet Radio Network, however I have some issues with install. I am not a programmer but with instructions I can manage:
1. I don't know what possessed me but I have installed Drupal in it's own directory so when I go to my Url I do not get Drupal-how do I change that?
An instance of Drupal was installed on http://realcoachingradio.net
Full installation path: /home/realcoac/public_html/drupal
You can simply move the contents of the "drupal" directory to "public_html" OR you can point http://realcoachingradio.com to the /drupal directory.
1. I have installed all of the modules required, everything is green however now what? is there a manual somewhere that I don't know about in what sequence I input things such as radio show, schedule, etc...You can find the documentation at http://drupal.org/handbook/modules/station
I don't think the actual instructions are listed there, however, so basically you add a program and then, either from the program page or the schedule page, you can add it to the schedule.
2. Is there a recommended structure of a theme? couldn't find anything about the type of theme that's requiredYou can pretty much use any theme you want. If you have any design sense, you can use the Zen theme to build a custom theme. I also design custom drupal themes (shameless self promotion), so if you are interested you can contact me at cizzle@atlasmediaonline.com
3. The schedule I have installed works on the hour only, I have shows that start at 5:30PM how do I fix that?Like I said, its been a while since I've worked with Station, but I think you can configure that in the settings for Station. I'm pretty sure you can go as low as 15 minutes.
4. PHP upload file size limited to 25MB where do I change that most of my shows are between 50-60MB?Thats a setting in your php.ini file. You should create one and place it in the root directory of your drupal installation. You can find more information about that at http://drupal.org/node/97193
I hope this helped you. I wish I was more open to ask questions when I first started using Drupal about 2 years ago; I spent a lot of wasted time frustrated.