Rick Hurst - Freelance Web developer. Bristol, England.

(This is just for my own reference as i’ve hit this twice now - and can never find anything on google). if you run Drupal on a non standard port (e.g. on my windows machine I run apache on port 6060 so it doesn’t clash with port 80 hog IIS), you may find that you can’t log into a drupal site. This may be because of the way cookies are set up for domains. You can get round it by going to settings.php and looking for the section that is preceded  by the comment:

/**
* We try to set the correct cookie domain. If you are experiencing problems
* try commenting out the code below or specifying the cookie domain by hand.
*/

Olivewood have recently launched a new drupal based site Green Infrastructure in the west of England.

This has actually been quietly live for a while now, but wanted to monitor how it coped with the fairly heavy load exerted by the AJAX based mapping tool, which bought our dev server to it’s knees during original user testing, before being moved to a server with a bit more RAM.

As i’ve been doing a few projects with Drupal recently I’ve set up a google group for people in the Bristol (UK) and surrounding area:-

http://groups.google.com/group/bristol-drupal

For anyone wondering if this means i’m deserting Plone, the answer is no - i’m also working on a couple of Plone projects too! I will post an article when I get time outlining my experiences of both - comparing and contrasting the development.

If you become locked out of a drupal site because you disabled the login form and can’t work out where to log in, you can reach a login form by navigating to e.g. yoursite/?q=user/login (or the clean url equivalent)