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Installing And Configuring Drigg For Drupal

The first step is to prepare Drupal for the uploading of your modules and a few other additions that need uploaded like jquery and themes.

Goto you FTP and the directory /sites/all, create two folders one named “modules” and the other named “themes”. The reason for this step is for Drupal core upgrades that will be released, this separates the Drupal core code from all you modules and themes making upgrading much easier.

now unpack the modules you downloaded from part 1 of the tutorial “Build A Digg Clone With Drigg For Drupal – Part 1 What You Will Need“.

The modules above are what you want to upload to /sites/all/modules directory on your FTP.

Inside you drigg modules folder you will find a folder titled stock_themes and inside that another folder titled drigg_theme. Upload a copy of the drigg_theme folder to /sites/all/themes/ directory.

The next step for correct voting operation in Drigg is to replace the default jquery.js file within the /misc folder on your FTP. Inside the module folder titled extra_voting_forms you will find a file titled “jquery-1.2.1.pack.js” rename this file to “jquery.js” and upload it to your FTP into the /misc directory overwriting the existing jquery.js file.

Now we have all the  preparation work done with FTP uploading now we can move on to actual module installation and configuration of your Drigg site.

To install the drupal modules we uploaded goto the link below which will take you to the modules administration section of Drupal.

h**p://yoursite.com/admin/build/modules

Below is a list of the modules to activate by ticking them, underneath the list is a visual image of what should be ticked for easier understanding.

Core – optional
• Color
• Comment
• Help
• Menu
• Path
• Ping
• Profile
• Search
• Taxonomy
• Tracker

Spam control
• CAPTCHA
• reCAPTCHA
• reCAPTCHA Mailhide

Taxonomy
• Tagadelic

User Karma
• User Karma
• User Karma – give node plugin
• User Karma – give votes plugin
• User Karma – votes on comments plugin
• User Karma – votes on nodes plugin

Voting
• Drigg
• Drigg All Comments
• Drigg Blocks
• Drigg Box
• Drigg META BASE package
• Drigg promoting module
• Drigg Related Links module
• Drigg User Interface
• Drigg Users
• Extra Voting forms

Voting API
• Voting API

Screen shot of Drupal Modules Screen and what you should have ticked.

Once you have all the modules ticked like the example click the Save Configuration button at the bottom of the page to install your chosen modules. If after saving you are asked to enable the Drigg Autovoting Module do so.

We have left a few of Driggs modules deactivated for now as these are more advanced and will most probably need separate tutorials in the future. Next we need  to configure some categories and the modules we have just installed so goto part 3 of this article.

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