Say Hello to Drupal!
If you can read this, then DNS has updated and you are now seeing the new version of the site, which is seved up by the excellent Drupal Content Management System.
I used to run Mambo, but I found Drupal to be superior for the following reasons:
- The editing interface for individual pages is much easier. No more "multiple textboxes" like what Mambo had.
- Simpler plugin architecture. Mambo had "plugins", "extensions", and "mambots". It was unclear how these were different, and trying to find a particular item meant you would have to go through 3 different menus.
- The taxonomy categorization system in Drupal is light years ahead of Mambo's "section" and "category" system.
- No stupid animated menus!
- Proper documentation. When I downloaded the PDF documentation for Mambo, there were several sections that were "to be written". For an already-released product. This is unacceptable.
- Cleaner looking source code. The code for Mambo was a real mess.
- The ability to host multiple sites under the same installation of Drupal by creating alternate settings files. This is very cool, and I intend to use this for hosting some of my other sites. I'll save disk space (and money) this way.
- A browsible API located at www.drupaldocs.org. That made it very easy for me to learn the API.
- Templates that are much simpler than Mambo and much better.
Enjoy the new site, and let me know if you run into any problems.
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Yep, it should be safe toYep, it should be safe to add those tags. If something goes wrong, you'll notice it right away, because every page on the server will give you a server 500 error. You definitely want to add those tags in, because having PHP_SESS_ID on the end of URLs is hideous, possibly insecure, and likely to cause issues with search engines. It's hard to say why users might be getting logged out. If this is on Corrente, which uses PHP_SESS_ID in the URL, then maybe they are borking the URL. Oh yeah, I also run a Philly-related website of my own: www.saveardmorecoalition.org. -- Doug |
Borking the URL?What do you mean by "borking" the URL? Accidentally truncating it? So, just add the tags in, without worrying that the apache stuff is in a different syntax?? (Weird...) |
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Yeah. Like say a user goesYeah. Like say a user goes and types in just the name of the site again, without the PHP_SESS_ID stuff hanging on the end. |
Session ID problem fixedThanks for the confirmation. That worked just fine, and now the session IDs aren't there. I hope that doens't interfere with any existing links that use them -- but perhaps what follows the "?" is just stripped out anyhow. |
Hello and questions
Ran into your site at Drupal, it was the first comment after the outage.
I also run (loosely speaking) a Drupal based blog in Philadelphia, Corrente. (We're iconoclastic Democrats). And there are several other Drupal blogs in Philly, e.g. Philly Futures...
I actually have a hidden agenda: I wanted to ask you two technical questions.
1. I'm seeing reasoned arguments to add the following to my .htaccess file:
php_value session.use_trans_sid 0
php_value session.use_only_cookies 1
but when I look at that file, it starts out # Apache/PHP/Drupal settings: and has the usual Apache pseudo tags. Is it safe simply to add those two tags, even though the syntax is different?
2. Some (not all) of my users are getting logged out, even though they have been active. It's intermittent, doens't happen to me, and I can't reproduce it. Googling, it looks like other PHP systems like Mambo can have the same problem. Any thoughts? Is this to an .htaccess (-> php.ini) issue?
Many thanks for any help you can give.