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Removed Login Link from Drupal Site

Mike — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 12:00:42 +0000

In Drupal it is possible to remove the login option from the site template by using the Blocks tool in the administration. If you do this, you won’t be able to log in from the regular page template.

Logging in is still possible and easy. Just add the querystring: ?q=user to call up a login prompt.

Slogan Not Appearing on Drupal Site

Mike — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 12:00:38 +0000

A common issue faced by theme developers is that of the site slogan not appearing even when the variable $site_slogan is present.

The site slogan is disabled by default. To turn it on in Drupal 6.6 go to the Theme selection list and choose Configuration. The site slogan is one of the checkboxes available on the left-hand side.

The same thing might have to be done in the theme-specific settings to take effect.

Drupal Stuck at Database Configuration

Mike — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 12:00:31 +0000

When configuring Drupal 6.6 on a Windows XP/Apache/MySQL box, I ran into an issue whereby I would enter the database information on the Database Configuration screen, press the advance button, but be constantly redirected back to the Database Configuration screen.

The Drupal community indicates this is a problem with permissions – Drupal needs to be able to write to your site’s settings.php file. All permissions appeared to be correct in my setup but I was still unable to continue.

The solution was to edit the settings.php file, putting in my database information manually. Just look for this line:

$db_url = ‘mysql://username:password@localhost/databasename’;

And change the username, password and databasename parts.

Then return to the Database Configuration screen, enter the information again and continue. The correct database information will be read from the settings file and the configuration will continue to the next step.

Happy hunting!