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Configuration of Ticket Tracking System in Drupal

I wanted to have an issue database for managing projects and I found a comparison of this kind of systems: groups.drupal.org/node/17948

I tried the modules:

In my opinion these 4 modules were the best in the list. The …

Automatic translating content in Drupal by using Google Translate

To translate content on your website, it is possible to use Google Translate. There are 2 ways to do this:

  • Translating the website on the client side (in Drupal by using the module GTranslate). The website will be readable in more than 50 languages.
  • Translating the content for every language used …
Page not found from Locale javascript translation files

Since I changed some Locale settings, I was getting the following ‘page not found’ warning in my log entries:

Type page not found
Location /sites/default/files/languages/nl_b9a0d0f79075a0e581d6f0700086988b.js?3
Referrer …
Optimaliseren van de robots.txt en de Google Webmaster tools

Een week geleden heb ik wat URL paden gewijzigd. Met de Webmaster tools van Google, kun je controleren webcrawler geen crawl fouten heeft: www.google.com/webmasters/tools/

De Google web crawler fouten lijst, bevatte enkele paden, die ik niet gebruik, maar gebruikt wordt door de hosting provider. Ook …

Optimizing the robots.txt and the Google webmaster tools

One week ago, this site had some URL path changes. It is possible to check for Google crawl errors on: www.google.com/webmasters/tools/

The web crawler errors were containing some paths, which I am not using, but are used by the hosting provider. My directory structure also contains some paths, …

Using PuTTY to tunnel to multiple machines on your remote network

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 …

Controleren van de database integriteit in Drupal en opschonen van de database

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 …

Checking database integrity in Drupal and cleanup the database

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 …

Drupal: Optimizing the website speed

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: …