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Helping to make DrupalEasy again

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The Most Excellent gentlemen Ryan Price and Mike Anello had me on their DrupalEasy.com podcast again this week. The main theme of the show was Drupal conferences - they discussed DrupalCon Paris which they both attended while I covered the regional DrupalCamp Atlanta, followed up with an announcement of the forthcoming DrupalCamp Florida 2010.

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Fixing Apache on CentOS/RHEL 5 for Drupal

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While not strictly a requirement, in the interests of not having crazy URLs on your Drupal site it's recommended to set up your web server to support .htaccess files. This will let you have URLs like "/products/cool/stuff" instead of "?q=products/cool/stuff" - obviously much nicer, and better for both usability and search engine optimization.

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Removing the acquia_subscription_status menu

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For a Drupal site I was developing I originally tried out the Acquia distribution but ultimately dropped it in favor of the vanilla core release. In doing so I also removed the custom Acquia modules that provided integration with their network as I wasn't going to be using it either. All was good, except that the admin menus retained an unneeded menu item named "acquia_subscription_status" that just linked to acquia.com - I had to vanquish it!

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Drupal theming gotcha #1 - overriding template files

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As I've been delving into Drupal theming I've discovered lots of gotchas.

The first one for today - when creating a sub-theme, if you want to override a template for a specific purpose you need to copy the parent theme's original file into your subtheme. A common example is wanting to have a custom page template for the hompage, which entails copying page.tpl.php to page-front.tpl.php. Because of a bug, aka poorly thought out "feature", your sub-theme must have a copy of both page-front.tpl.php and page.tpl.php.

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