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Just another confirmation of how much Google likes Drupal based sites. When I made another static site a couple years ago, even with paid "site submission" services, it took about 6 months for the site to show up in any reasonable way on searches. Three months to show up at all.
On my Drupal site, the site was showing up on Google within a couple weeks, with only a few links from other sites to help. Once I added Google Sitemap module and Autopath, the site is quickly up near the top of the list on related term searchs. Google likes Drupal!

currently, i am using as my base url

http://localhost/drupal4.6. it works 100%. If i want to change it to gloabl kind of settings like www.drupal.org where should i save my drupal folder.

Hi there . i was using localhost as my developing place. once i finished the site , i want to publish it to WWW address. but the settings file have got the base url , the base db statements, when i changed the setting to my global ip address , it doesn't help , can somebody help in reagard to this problem

I'd like to recommend the book The Wisdom of Crowds by James Surowiecki. It mentions Linux development as an example, but more important, it provides specific criteria that determine whether collective knowledge-building projects like open source software are achieving the best decisions they can, given the collective knowledge of a broad set of people.

I'm reading this for other reasons, but it seems so relevant I thought I would make a post. Here's a nice summary from one of the editorial reviews on Amazon.com:

"If four basic conditions are met, a crowd's "collective intelligence" will produce better outcomes than a small group of experts, Surowiecki says, even if members of the crowd don't know all the facts or choose, individually, to act irrationally. 'Wise crowds' need (1) diversity of opinion; (2) independence of members from one another; (3) decentralization; and (4) a good method for aggregating opinions. The diversity brings in different information; independence keeps people from being swayed by a single opinion leader; people's errors balance each other out; and including all opinions guarantees that the results are "smarter" than if a single expert had been in charge."

I would only caution that the book carefully defines these criteria, to show when and how these criteria are met by situations. For instance, not all decentralization automatically leads to wise decisions, although decentralization is necessary for them.

There was this recent warning about a new worm running around web servers.

McAfee describes it here
http://vil.nai.com/vil/content/v_136821.htm

It infects Linux and *BSD servers. It propogates by looking for a set of URL's that have known vulnerabilities. Some of those URL's are ones that drupal exports, including the xmlrpc.php.

What I want to know is whether 4.6.3 installations are safe?