PuTTY is a handy little program to login via SSH. It can be downloaded here: PuTTY.

Do not underestimate the functionality of PuTTY, it is lean and mea. It is possible to access other ports on a remote server, via tunnels, through SSH port 22.

It is even possible to access other machines on the …

Na enige tijd kan het geval zijn dat de database integriteit niet goed meer is. Dit hoeft niet altijd problemen veroorzaken, maar het is beter om het op te schonen.

De oorzaak hiervan kan zijn, bijvoorbeeld het installeren en verwijderen van modules, en dat deze niet goed de-installeren.

Met de …

After some time the database integrity is not ok. This does not always cause problems, but it is better to clean up.

The cause is for example installing and removing modules, which are not de-installing very well.

With the Schema module is it possible to look for the database integrity. The status …

There are several ways to optimize the your Drupal website:

• Enable Drupal caches
• Daily Automatic optimization of the database tables

Before you start

Before you start to optimize your website, you first have to measure the current speed.

This is can be done with this service: …

In this post I try to explain about the how the mod_rewrite module of Apache2 works.

For example we are taking here the mod_rewrite part from .htaccess delivered with Drupal, but other CMS’s has something similar in the .htaccess file:

# Various rewrite rules.
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c> …

Drupal contains Taxonomy to categorize the content. There are several ways to do this, for example:

• Tags on content
• Category on content

Tags on content

Taxonomy in Drupal can be configured to use tags in the content. Tags are very handy to find back related content. Nodes like a blog entry, page …

Add other languages

Go to the following menu to add the language(s) you have uploaded together with Drupal:

Home›Administer›Site configuration›Languages

• Click on ‘Add language’, select the language and click ‘Add language’.

Remark: If you have the choice, it is better to …

When Drupal 6 is installed, the following modules are already available and activated.

Core (required):

• Block - Controls the boxes that are displayed around the main content
• Filter - Handles the filtering of content in preparation for display
• Node - Allows content to be submitted to the site and …

This post is a part of the Drupal 6 installation description, which you can find here: Installation of Drupal 6.

What is multi-site?

To have a multi-site Drupal installation, all domains has to point to the directory where Drupal is installed, which are called domain aliases. When browsing to a …