Google Invests $90,000 in Drupal CMS
Google continues to promote and encourage open source technologies by agreeing to sponsor Drupal modules in the net “summer of code”.
“The summer is off to a great start again. Google just announced that they will sponsor 18 Drupal developer stipends in this year’s Summer of Code program (SoC). Google provides a stipend of 5,000 [...]
Mod rewrite / clean urls for Drupal on Ubuntu Apache Server
Just spent the last few days trying to get clean urls to work on my Ubuntu apache2 server, and finally found a thread on a Drupal forum. It turned out that you have to activate mod rewrite in Apache before any of the settings in the .htaccess file will take place. Also need to remember [...]
Upgrading a Drupal Installation
OK, I attempted a Drupal upgrade as soon as I made a test area for my Drupal CMS installation, and managed to get it wrong from the start.
So, to recap, here are the upgrade instructions from Drupal (after backing up):
Log on as the user with user ID 1
Place the site in “Off-line” mode
Disable contributed modules [...]
The Drupal Content Management System
I have recently been playing around with Drupal, which is a free open source content management system. At first glance Drupal looks rather complicated, as there are many standard modules, even more optional modules that are developed by other users, plus a vast array of configuration settings, all of which make Drupal very customisable, but [...]
