General discussion

Hi,

I wonder if this would be a reasonable approach: I am working on a website that rates other web sites according to a hierarchy of criteria. The tree of criteria looks similar to

Hi,

Im new to drupal,

So far I was creating a custom menu and I want to add a link to some other page but the link is formatted like

http://localhost/drupal/index.php?q=www.mywebsite.com

And it doesn't work

When I go to the support and service section and click on the link in this text.

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I get Access denied. Isn't this open to everyone according to the text?

Here I have a problem which occured out of the blue:-(

I have been running a number of Drupal sites (mostly 4.0.0 and one 4.2.2 version) on a reseller hosting account with www.sultanhost.com. So far everything was smooth and I had clean URLs and Url-Aliases running with no problem.

Yesterday I found out that none of my Drupal sites were viewable. I immediately contacted them obviously and found out that they switched from PHP as apache module to CGI:

Here is their announcement on the support site:

Due increased number of MySQL connections on the server initiated by nobody user (php default user) we are going to change php run method from mod_php to cgi and remove abusing users.

CHANGE WAS TAKEN PLACE ON 20th OF OCTOBER AT ALL SERVERS.

There are some guidances you should to follow to feel safe about this move, don't worry if it looks too complex, in general all will be smooth:

1. User executing the wrapper must be a valid user on this system.
2. The command that the request wishes to execute must not contain a /.
3. The command being executed must reside under the user's web document root..
4. The current working directory must be a directory.
5. The current working directory must not be writable by group or other.
6. The command being executed cannot be a symbolic link.
7. The command being executed cannot be writable by group or other.
8. The command being executed cannot be a setuid or setgid program.

There is a TridentSpider3 (allegedly not a mail harvester but SE indexer) which is obviously written badly.

Today it got to our Drupal site and when it got to Events ie. /events/ with Rewrite Engine on, it:

- ate up 200+ MB of bandwidth indexing freaking events for more than 4 hours and it still sucks!
- filled the cache table several times with 56 MB, 83 MB, 182 MB of data

When it gets to events, it indexes every day, be it filled or empty in the event calendar.

Can you imagine the number of queries it produces?

I get stories/etc emailed to me and want to be able to post stories as "Submitted By" the author (the person who emailed the story to me.) Is there a way to do this without having to register that name? I can get so far as putting their name in the text box, but Drupal does not want to let me do it as it's not a user name....

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks.