Drupal 6 Appliance

Drupal is an open source content management platform licensed under the GPL. Equipped with a powerful blend of features, Drupal can support a variety of websites ranging from personal blogs, corporate brochures and large community-driven websites.

This appliance includes all the standard features in TurnKey Core, and on top of that:

• SSL support out of the box.
• Postfix MTA (bound to localhost) to allow sending of email (e.g., password recovery, user registration).
• PHPMyAdmin administration frontend for MySQL (listening on port 12322 - uses SSL).
• Webmin modules for configuring Apache2, PHP and MySQL.
• Search engine friendly out of the box
• Popular and useful Drupal modules:
  • Views: A smart query builder for controlling how Drupal content is presented.
  • CCK: Content Creation Kit - a powerful toolkit for creating custom content types.
  • Panels: Drag and drop customized layouts for pages, nodes and blocks.
  • Backup and migrate: Backup and restore your Drupal site on-demand or on a schedule.
  • Devel: A suite of helper modules for Drupal module and theme developers.
  • FCKEditor: Enables FCKeditor (a WYSIWYG editor) instead of plain text fields.
    
  • IMCE: Powerful image file uploader and browser, with support for on the fly resizing.
  • CAPTCHA: Thwart spammers by adding image or text based CAPTCHAs to your site.
  • PathAuto: Auto-generate search engine friendly URLs (SEO).
  • GlobalRedirect: Alias 301 redirects, prevents duplicate content. (SEO)
    
  • FiveStar: Simple five-star voting widget for nodes.
  • ImageCache: Setup presets that performs automatic image processing.
  • Webform: Create forms and questionnaires.
    
  • Logintoboggan: Improves Drupal's login system.
  • Admin_menu: Adds dropdown administration menu to the top of the screen.
  • Tagadelic: Makes weighted tag clouds from your taxonomy terms.
  • Lightbox2: Places images above your current page, not within.
  • ModuleInfo: Adds essential information to the admin modules page.
    
  • Google_analytics: Adds Google Analytics js tracking code to all your site's pages.

Note: Drupal 6 includes a built-in update status module.

• When enabled could produce confusing/annoying version notifications.
• This is due to drupal6 being installed and updated via the APT package manager, instead of manually from the upstream tarball.

Known issues:

• The Drupal 6 installation will fail if client-side scripting is disabled.

Drupal 6 includes many improvements over Drupal 5 including, built-in OpenID support, better polls support, a more advanced forum system, email notifications, and much more.)