Unix file permissions

There are three levels of security associated with every directory and file.

  • The first is the "owner".
  • The next is the "group". You are assigned to the appropriate group when you get your account.
  • The last level is "other" which is everyone on the system.

You can give or take away permission to read, write, or execute to any of user, group, or other. To see what permissions are set, use the command

  ls -l

Here are two lines of example output

Custom Front Page with the Views Module

Custom Front Page with the Views Module

If you have the Views Module installed, it will create a front page view located at http://example.com/frontpage. You can control the settings for that page at http://example.com/admin/build/views.

To edit the View for this type of custom front page, go to http://example.com/frontpage and click on the "Override" tab. Then create a Drupal View just as you would create any other Drupal View.

If you have the Views Module installed, be sure to block off that duplicate front page with the following robots.txt rule:

Migrate webform data to another database

The webform module creates the following tables:

  • webform
  • webform_component
  • webform_roles
  • webform_submissions
  • webform_submitted_data

Therefore to migrate backup these tables and then import them into the other database using the backup and migrate module.

Note:

1. A new row is created within webform_submissions for each new submission. The field 'sid' is a unique field which is incremented for each new submission.