On Jun 10, 2006, at 10:41 AM, dondi_2006 wrote:

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Make sure your .htaccess file is being read. Then make sure you have the correct redirect command uncommented.

Thanks, but.. sorry, how do I check this? I REALLY need to understand if what's happening is an error of mine and which one, or if it's a general Drupa or LAMP issue/bug

.htaccess is a hidden file that is used to, among other things, restrict unauthorized access to the directory and all child directories. You can check if it's there using your sftp program (and make sure to enable "show hidden files" or the like, if the program has that option).

If you don't have it there, you can dig it out of the Drupal tarball. (If you're on a Mac, and haven't enabled Finder to show hidden files, you can find the file using TextWrangler or the like.)

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If you're trying to run your www. domain as a different site than the non-www. domain, then I don't know -- I've never tried that.

No, that's not what I want. I want mysite.net and www.mysite.net to be the same website. I just want to _advertise_ (when it will be ready) only the shorter name.

In .htaccess, add this:

# 301 to redirect www.yourdomain.com to domain.com RewriteEngine on RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.yourdomain.com [NC] RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://domain.com/$1 [L,R=301]

This will also have the effect of telling search engines to index your site without the www.

Anyway: I have discovered two things:

1. If I click on "log out" in www.mysite.net then I don't see that hole anymore, but:

2. three days ago I had created (after the admin account) a second

account, called My_First_Name with full powers (since I read somewhere it's good practice to use account #1 as seldom as possible). If I log in with this _second_ account, I still get the page:

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Welcome to your new Drupal website!

Please follow these steps to set up and start using your website:

1. Create your administrator account To begin, create the first

account. This account will have full administration rights and will allow you to configure your website. ###################################################################

if I click on "create the first account" I get an access denied page, so there seems to be nothing really dangerous going on, but this still seems very confusing, if not potentially dangerous, to me.

You get that default message until you create a post that is promoted to the front page. Just create a page with temp text or something, and that message should disappear.

Laura