Drupal

I was recently setting up a site hosted by bluehost and running drupal.

Before you transfer DNS authority to bluehost, they give you a temporary URL to allow you to get the site up and running and tested before you make it live. The URL is in this format:

http:<IP>/~<username>
or
http://69.89.31.189/~camelrch

I installed Drupal using 'fantastico', which is available from the bluehost control panel. But to get Drupal to recognize this 'test' URL, you have to change two things.

Ever since I set up the forums on this site a few weeks ago, I have been inundated with spam posts on them. I didn't want to require users to register, or answer a question prior to posting, so I installed the spam module. It's not a bad module for a simple implementation, and actually did block the majority of spam-bot posts, but it's not very granular (and understandably so... it walks a fine line of being easy to use and still effective, and does a pretty good job), and it was sort of hit and miss and there were many posts still getting though (even after tuning the custom filters for a few weeks), so I finally found the cure: