Creating a Data Room with Drupal

Steps to create a "Deal Room" with Drupal

1. create site, ideally a numbered third level domain, such as 1234.mydrupalsite.com
2. Go to site / configuration / file system and set download method to private (for obvious reasons)
3. enable the modules:
   • contact
   • path
   • profile
   • search
   • statistics
   • tracker
   • upload
   • pathauto (contrib)
   • token (contrib)
4. Configure the theme and administration theme
5. Go to reports / access log settings and enable access log, 16 weeks, enable count views
8. Create a page called /home with the title of the deal room and some basic instructions, such as "the panel on the left lists all the documents available.
9. Go to site configuration / site information and set the default front page to home and put a link in the footer to copyright/legal as required

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