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I had met a peculiar Apache 2 error on Drupal upgrading. I can see my site loaded but can't access any of the sub-URL's in the site. When I provide the Url:www.test.com/admin/node, its shows "Requested URL /admin/node not found on this server". But if the url is provided like 'test.com/?q=node/', it allows to get the link.

Consider the situation that you are using the fancy box module in your drupal 7 site and you have to display the images when clicked on in a pop-up.You just need to follow the steps mentioned below which can guide you through the various procedures.

A bug was noticed in the Drupal site that permission for creating node not working on upgrading the module. We can create the node or view it if we are admin users but the node is not accessible to authenticated users or cant be viewed by anonymous users. I tried the fixing by looking at the permissions of the nodes to the specific users.It all looked fine and created a custom permission for the same.The issue still stayed.

In Drupal we can create a time based subscription for a user for a given role. The user will be assigned to that role for a certain limit of time, after that the role will expire. The subscription will be based on Ubercart product. When a user purchases the product, account of user is upgraded to a specified role for a given time limit. The user can also renew for the role by purchasing the product after end of subscription.

Syncing means importing all files, permissions and data's from master to the development site, so that we have a two copies of live sites to test our new developments. In Drupal, its very easy to create versions of websites using this syncing process. Once the site is live to Production, the above process helps to fetch the sites data in the current scenario and to update few more features in the live site. I had a task to sync live database to development site's and came across some issues while syncing live database with the dev database.

While working on a report generating system, I wanted to display footer value that should reflect based on the date filter, added in the report. I thought of creating a block in the content region and manage the contents in the block. But when I went to know about header and footer options in views module, I decided to go for it. This article is on how to use header or footer in views pages.

Commerce Giftwrap module provides a very quick and easy way to offer a gift wrapping option to your Drupal Commerce checkout. This module adds a new checkout pane with configuration settings to allow users to select a gift wrapping option to add to their order along with a message to the recipient. People often buy products hoping they can gift it to a certain address. If they can get it gift wrapped, it would be an added advantage as they could deliver it directly to the person instead of buying it and then gift wrapping it and then delivering it!

Getting a block in front page or in all other pages is easy ie, we only need to print that variable in our template files namely page-front.tpl.php or in page.tpl.php.In certain cases we may need to print a block in certain nodes. This can be done by the following code :

Every one will be familiar with the template files.Now lets see the case to theme a block. Here we can use block.tpl.php for theming the block but what if we want to theme the block specifically by a region?In one of my recent projects I need to theme the block in a specific region, I cannot use block.tpl.php as this may cause all other blocks to change.While digging a bit deeper I found out that this can be done easily by using a template for that particular region.Let's see how it can be done so.

In this article I will be explaining What is Affiliate Links and what all configurations should be done to generate affiliate links on page load. Also will explain how to generate titles of required patterns using preg_match(). In a related article we have explained how to use hook_form_alter() to make the Multiple select field a single select.