Clean Drupal DB

Wednesday, January 28th, 2009

We can use following script to clean Drupal database; I do this every time before taking a db-backup.


TRUNCATE `cache_block`;
TRUNCATE `cache_filter`;
TRUNCATE `cache_form`;
TRUNCATE `cache_menu`;
TRUNCATE `cache_page`;
TRUNCATE `sessions`;
TRUNCATE `watchdog`;

Drupal Clean URL with Lighttpd

Friday, April 11th, 2008

I found few url-rewrite based solution for enabling CleanURL in Drupal + Lighttpd but none of them worked flawlessly. Guys, all we need here is something similar to following Apache rewrite code (without any side effect, like 404 header etc).

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?q=$1 [L,QSA]

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