David Slack - Web developer

The Drupal in built search is ok for most things, but wouldn't you want something a bit better? How about a search that doesn't just search the titles? How about a list that appears as you type?

You can add some modules to do this, the first we will use is called Finder

Pathauto is a module to make your website use the page title instead of the node name for the URL.

For example, you could have www.example.com/node/3 or www.example.com/content/about-us . What is more descriptive of the content the page contains? Drupal has tools built in to change the URL on each page but wouldn't it be easier for you and you client if this was automatic?

Enter Pathauto, you can now create page and not worry about the URL.

Need a file manager for use with WHM? Try ConfigServer Explorer (cse) from the makers of CSF: http://www.configserver.com/cp/cse.html

To install or upgrade cse simply do the following from the root shell via SSH:

{syntaxhighlighter brush: applescript;fontsize: 100; first-line: 1; }rm -fv cse.tgz wg et http://www.configserver.com/free/cse.tgz tar -xzf cse.tgz cd cse sh install.sh cd .. rm -Rfv cse/ cse.tgz{/syntaxhighlighter}

Here is a list of all the payment gateways I could find for Drupal 6 and Ubercart. A guy on Drupal called dalleyasaurus has done the same type of thing here, but with no links.

I'll keep your data safe unless it is public, but I wont sell any of your data. Your password is safe, it's all hashed up so even I can't access it.

I'll get a better privacy statement up later.

cPanel and WHM is the industry leader for turning standalone servers into a fully automated point-and-click hosting platform. It's a fully webbrowser based front end for your server.

Once you have installed centOS and have SSH access you can install cPanel with WHM and and that is it, your server is ready to use. 

Follow this guide to install

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To begin your installation, use the following commands:

To help stop DOS (and to a certain extent DDOS) attacks we need a firewall. CSF (Configserver Security and Firewall) seems to be the most used on WHM.

SEO or Search Engine Optimisation is the black art of making your site easier for search engines to see and list. The better your SEO, the higher the site is ranked in the search engine. There are lots of ways of optimizing websites for search engines but here is how I do it.

Once you have the site optimised for Search engines you can start to market it with SEM and offline marketing.

Modules

As usual we need to add in some modules to extend the Drupal website. Lets start with these:

Now we have the modules all installed and setup we'll go and make it so the user can upload an image on the page. You will have to do tis for each content type, but we will only do page and story for now

1. Go to admin
2. On the left click Content Types
3. Click 'Manage Fields' to the right of 'Page'

Group

We'll add a group for our images so under New Group type Images in the box for Label and 'images' for the box for Group name now hit the Save button. Now to configure the group