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Hi!

I have a multisite Drupal 7 intallation with a files directory inside one of the sites. It is configured as my Drupal documents directory, however, I need to create new directories inside it to put some order in private documents that are not going to be uploaded but html linked from the body of content nodes instead. My question is, how can I have Drupal to protect these documents? Thanks in advance. I hope some one can help me.

When I go to the site on the server, it wants to download parts of the site, like the index.php page - as opposed to just opening it. Why?

We’ve been following what other technologies are up to recently regarding deployment and hosting. Heroku, for Ruby on Rails, is clearly an awesome platform that has surely played an important role in getting RoR a wider acceptance. Lately some other clones for different technologies have appeared and, while some of them address PHP based deployments, there’s still no specific solution that handles Drupal the “right” way.

I'm looking for a web hosting service for a Drupal 7 web site about human's rights in Ivory Coast.
It may display pictures of killed or injured people, such as these pictures published in a french newspaper: http://tempsreel.nouvelobs.com/galeries-photos/monde/20110511.OBS2872/en...

Hi,
I am new to Drupal.
Recently i developed a Drupal site, i used SMTP Authentication Support module to send emails using my Google Apps account.
It worked fine on localhost but after i moved my site to GoDaddy windows shared hosting it is showing the following error

Does somebody know a Hosting partner which resides in Switzerland/Germany which provides complex Drupal hostings or would even build such a setup for an inhouse solution?