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Have you ever just wanted a box dedicated to email or a PHP/Apache sandbox that isn't already being used as a real server or workstation? Don't go out and buy a new Dell or other new machine just to fill the test server, firewall or other non-resource-intensive need.

Have you ever just wanted a box dedicated to email or a PHP/Apache sandbox that isn't already being used as a real server or workstation? Don't go out and buy a new Dell or other new machine just to fill the test server, firewall or other non-resource-intensive need.

TCPHP May 21, 2005 meeting notes
Topic: Drupal
Presenters: Allie Micka and Chris Johnson
We had about 20 attendees, some of which joined us from the tcwebpros group. Earlier in the week, Allie gave a presentation on Drupal to the tcwebpros.org folks. Those slides are available at http://www.tcwebpros.org/meetings/may-2005-notes. A big thanks to Allie and Chris for tag-teaming this meeting and providing more technical details on implementing a Drupal site. Open Office format slides for their presentation are available at http://www.tcphp.org/files/InstallDrupal.sxi. Thanks to the Renaissance Box for the meeting space.

What is Drupal?
Drupal is a web-based CMS (Content Management System) written in PHP with an SQL database backend (typically MySQL). Drupal is available under the the GPL license.

Installation/configuration:
Chris gave us a quick introduction on how to install Drupal assuming you were on a Windows workstation and uploading files to your web host's server. At at minimum, you must edit the sites/default/settings.php and set the following variables:

$db_url - Contains your MySQL database connection info
$base_url - Set this to point to your web site (http://mysite.com/drupal, or http://localhost/drupal if you're working on your local system)

NOTE: $base_url should not end with a trailing slash '/'

For detailed installation instructions, refer to Drupal docs at http://drupal.org/handbook.

Directory permissions depend on what you want to do with Drupal. If you are using the "images" module, the images directory needs to be writable. Otherwise, the default permissions should be just fine.

description:

The general topic for this meeting will be an open discussion of web application security concepts and practices.

Location:
The Renaissance Box

Thanks to everyone who attended the May meeting on Drupal. We had a nice crowd and some really great discussion! In addition to these slides, check out the slides from the May TCWebPros Meeting

Just passing this info on, I don't know anthing about it.  If you have more info, please post a comment here...

Pipestone is a start up software company based on Seattle. We’re doing some market research for a new technology targeted at web developers. We’re currently looking for experienced PHP developers who will take a look at a prototype product and provide us with some feedback. We will pay your current hourly rate. We will demo the prototype product via the web and phone. We’ll ask you some questions about your needs; our product; and the business model. What we want is your candid feedback. You can think of it as a focus group of sorts. It should take approximately two hours.

If you happen to develope web applications and use Firefox, the Web Developer's Toolkit is a must have. If you're not yet using Firefox, it's reason enough to switch all by itself.

This interesting link was posted to the drupal mailing list. 

All the recent Drupal buzz got Chris Johnson pinging me to make the Drupalized tcphp.org site live. Chris began setting it up in January, and I let it languish in neglect while we both went on to publicly praise the benefits of this powerful CMS. It is always better to eat your own dog food, so here's me bustin' out the Alpo: www.tcphp.org