Drupal

Here is an nice interview with Scott Mattoon from Sun Microsystems. He is talking about why Drupal is great.

Drupal has won Packt Publishing's Open Source CMS Award for 2008. This is the second year in a row that Drupal has won the overall CMS award and is in addition to the Best PHP Based Open Source CMS Award for 2008. It is testament to tremendous progress that Drupal is making as an open source product to be to be reckoned with.

Out of the box Drupal will display a simple Access Denied message is a user is trying to access content that they do not have permission to. This is not exactly user friendly. A better solution is to redirect the user to the login form and when the user logs in, redirect them back to the content that they want to see. There are two main ways to achieve this.

Every now and again the node permissions table on a Drupal site can go out of whack. The result is that some users may get an accessed denied message when trying to access pages.

This is fairly easy to fix on a "normal size" website. You simply go to admin -> content -> post settings and click "Rebuild permissions".

However, this does not always work on a partcularly large Drupal based website. I have tried this on a site with around 11,000 nodes and it times out, giving me a page not found error.