Post installation

Hi,

I think I asked a similar question before and I don't know if this has anything to do with caching.

My problem is I've got a password protected site, but people can still go to the home page without logging in and view recent posts to a forum. It's supposed to be kept private and I don't know what I did wrong or overlooked.

Every other part of the site is off limits unless an authenticated user logs in. This is bugging me. Any help is appreciated. Thanks!

I have created a new flexinode content type. I would like to use the "tabular view" for that content type. What I need to do is have a dropdown list of users available, so you can select a specific user and view just their entries.

I can see this being useful with other content types as well. How do I go about altering that display to include a dropdown, and limit the data to just the person selected?

At Grasshopper Arts, I'm creating a multi-lingual site, using the I18n module. I've been somewhat successful, figuring out how the module works. On the top left, I've set up primary links, which translate properly when you switch the locale.

However, I would like the Workshops link (or Talleres in Spanish) expand to show several sub-options when you're in that category.

When I try and interactively run cron.php on a website where it hasn't run for a while, it takes a long time. So long, infact, that I think the HTML connection is timing out (greater than 15 minutes).

I went through the various tables in my Drupal db (mysql), and manually deleted old rows out of tables like accesslog, cache, sessions, and watchdog, but cron.php is still taking a long time.

Is there anyway to figure out what cron.php is doing?

When pathauto is ON and a Node Title is changed, I see that it creates a new alias very nicely.

But, I don't see anything referencing that the "old" path alais has been "deleted".

Is it deleted? Or do I have to go into mysql and clean it up.

My main concern is that I am submitting sitemaps to google and would like, not to add any bad links (page not found) and would submit a new map to goggle.

I just changed the Titles on about 20 pages and have new aliases now, which is a good thing. Just trying to avoid dead links.

thanks

I have installed drupal in my base directory, and am successfully using Clean URLs.

I have some subdirectories I'd like to be able to access via web browser which are not part of the drupal structure. However, attempting to access them when Clean URLs are turned on causes a 404 error.

I don't really know much about mod_rewrite. Is there a simple change that can be made to the rewrite rules in .htaccess which will allow http access to subdirectories?