Archive for the ‘Website Maintenance’ Category

[SOLVED] Couldn’t install new modules via Administration in Drupal in ubuntu local development box

When you are working in local development box, and wish to install already downloaded modules to the drupal installation via web-based administration section, you may be presented with a screen that asks you ftp details in order to carry out the installation process. If you are unsure what should you enter or if you tried [...]

Configuring VirtualHost and Host alias on Ubuntu 10.04 Development Box

On my ubuntu 10.04 box, I have apache2 webserver running. Since I get involved in different project over the time, it felt rather awful to access each project via http://localhost/projectname. I configured virtualhost and hosts file on my ubuntu machine to achieve host alias so that I could run the project via host alias like [...]

[How To] Upgrade WordPress automatically on 1and1 Hosting

I host my wordpress blog on my 1and1 hosting account. With new releases of wordpress, the automatic core update didn’t work as expected. It would freeze on the way. The workaround: WordPress Upgrade script needs php5 for functioning. By default, .php extension is parsed with php4 engine in 1and1 webhosting. Add this line to your [...]

[Solved] Error enabling clean-urls in drupal

Well, I was working in a drupal project. I have a hosting account and number of add-on domains. My current project is hosted on one of the add-ons domains. But I have this problem implementing clean urls, which are supposed to look tidy. I checked the .htaccess file, and everything seemed alright. RewriteEngine as on. [...]

[SOLVED] High Unviewed Traffic in Drupal site

It had been bugging me for days. Unviewed traffic for my site was pretty high, more than 5 times the viewed traffic. When I checked AWstats in my cpanel, I found that Googlebot had been eating up 4 times more bandwidth than my normal visitors. So how did I solve? Well, it took me days [...]