I am sure there are tons of you out there that know exactly how this works but I had to figure it out and unfortunately there wasn't one single article on how this would work with Drupal, SQL and 1and1.

This is a step by step setup guide for installing and setting up Drupal 5.7 in under 10 minutes. Now there is always something that comes up along the way that may take longer, but about 10 mintues is all it takes.

I put this together because the Drupal documentation assumes that you already know almost everything before you read it. If you are looking to setup a multisite version of Drupal check out my article:  Installing a Multi-Site Drupal System. It allows you to run multiple sites on a sinlge code base of Drupal.

About 1 year ago I bought the domain name theworldsgreatestguy.com as kind of an in-side SEO joke around our office at the start-up PrivaSign. I was trying to SEO our company site and once over beers joked that it would be funny to say to someone in a bar that according to Google I was the "world's greatest guy". Well for about 9 months that is exactly what Google said with very little SEO effort of my own. And then I happened to be in a bar having a few drinks with someone discussing VOIP, start-ups and SEO and mentioned my Google trick. But much to my disappointment Google moved me away to from their list. So off came the gloves.

Someone had posted a comment on my Setting Up Drupal in 10 minutes. This is the response to that reader's questions.

Hi Isaac,

Great job with the install post! I can't wait for the Testing, Site Structure and Creating Content episodes. You had mentioned previously that you had setup two installs running a total of 10 sites. The multi-site funcionalty sounds amazing! Can you walk me through how you implemented those multi-func setups?

Dear reader,

I am glad to see that you liked the guide on installing Druapl and yes I really need to finish the rest of it soon.

Like everyone else, I hate arriving to a 404 'page not found'. It's like showing up to a party at the wrong house. Sure you can call and find out where the real party is but in the mean time your just lost. Surfers that arrive to missing pages, if they are like me, will more than likely just leave. After all, google has about another 1,000 results waiting for me.

Editing the .htaccess file is great for permenant URL re-naming using 301 re-directs, but for mis-written URL links, Drupal, the engine running this site and many others, has a great module that can turn these missing pages into real results. Search 404

How to redirect non-www requests to the www.site to reduce risk of SEO penalty

Numerous posts regarding SEO mention that search engines may punish sites for having 'duplicat content' even if that apperant copy is on your own site.

For example my site was available to both httx://isaacbowman AND httx://www.isaacbowman, and due the magic of the internet this can appear to be two sites with the exact same content. Engines don't like seeing content copied for many of the same reasons that we don't like and often fear copies in the real world. Let's face it duplicates can be scary and can be the cause of spammers putting up multiple copies of info just to reap on banner ads.

Image_Assist allows Drupal users to upload images into their pages and blogs with amazing ease. Getting it to work on Drupal 4.7 was a little bit more frustrating.

Here's two simple things that I did for my single user install of Drupal. First turn off the User login from the home page. Unless you want everyone and their uncle creating accounts on your website, and since my site is just for me, you need to disable this feature.

Clean URLs are very important for a variety of reasons. First off, clean URLs provide a neater/tighter presentation to visitor of your site.

• Clean - www.example.com/clean
• Not clean - www.example.com/clean.asp

Just like I alway do, once I decided to switch over to a CMS (Content Mang System) website I researched everyone solution available. While there are many options, especially if all I wanted was a blog, Drupal stood out as a clear winner. Let me mention a few of the key points that won me over.