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.

As a subplot the reason I had to do this, other then needing to have database backups, was because I wanted to upgrade to the lastest version of Drupal and it requires MySQl 5.0 and higher. So that means exporting/backingup the original MySQl 4 database and then importing it into the newly created 5.0 database. Read more

I have been trying to increase the rating of my new site The World's Greatest Guy on Google's SERP. I had been #1 on Google for the first 9 months of the sites's life and then it just went away. If was a huge disappointment... Google changed its mind. Yahoo and MSN both list the site as #1 for, of course "the world's greatest guy". Read more

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? Read more

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 a site might be available to both https AND http or http://www AND non-www. Due the magic of the internet this could 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. Read more