If you’re trying to password protect a subdirectory of your Drupal website using the traditional .htaccess and .htpassword method, you might be having trouble accessing the contents of the subdirectory. When trying to navigate to a page under the subfolder, Drupal simply displays it as not found.

There is a very easy fix for this. Simply add this line at the top of your .htaccess file:

ErrorDocument 401 “Unauthorized”

This must be done for every single subdirectory containing the .htaccess and .htpasswd files.

Your final .htaccess file would look something like this:

ErrorDocument 401 "Unauthorized"
AuthUserFile /locationofyoursubdirectory/.htpasswd
AuthGroupFile /dev/null
AuthName "Secure Document"
AuthType Basic

require user user1
require user user2
require user user3
require user user4
require user user5

After inserting that small line at the top of your .htaccess file, your subdirectories should be password protected but accessible, like intended.

There is a common issue when posting from Word into the Wordpress editor which causes problems when trying to view the article using the Internet Explorer browser (it simply won’t display).

The reason behind this is because Word uses some unstandardized tags for its formatting, and those tags are not recognized by IE.

Quick Fix (and a really bad way to do it):

To quickly fix an article where the issue occurs, follow these steps:

• Go back and edit the article.
• Switch from Visual view to HTML view.
• Remove any text occuring before the tag, including the tag itself.
• Switch back to Visual view and see if the article was fixed.
• Update the article.

Currently a few different plugins for WordPress are being developed which should stop the issue from occuring. I haven’t found a working one yet. If anyone does please comment away!

Changing the default header of a phpBB3 forum is easy.

I used this very useful website that is pretty self-explanatory to change the picture shown within the header:

http://www.easytutorials.org/phpbb3_styles_logo.html

Note: When you refresh your forums to see if the changes have taken place, do so by pressing SHIFT+F5. (This clears the cache and does a full refresh)

A faster way would be to rename your image to “site_logo.gif” and overwrite the default one by moving it into the “styles/*stylename*/imageset/”  folder.  The image will most likely be scaled to a default size so you must change the size manually by going into Administration Control Panel>Styles>Imagesets>Edit and under Select Image select Main Logo. Select ‘yes’ to Include Dimensions and manually type in the desired image size.

Keep in mind that if your image has a background with a solid colour, it will show up on top of the background of the header, sometimes making it look unprofessional. To fix this you must either create the image with a transparent background,  or edit the header background to match the image.

To do the latter, go to Administration Control Panel>Styles>Themes>Edit and comment out the following line by changing:

background-image: url(“{T_THEME_PATH}/images/bg_header.gif”);

to

//background-image: url(“{T_THEME_PATH}/images/bg_header.gif”);

Right on top of this line, the code “background-color: #FFFFFF;” can be seen. The “FFFFFF” part can be changed to any colour hexidecimal code (more colour codes can be found here).

When done, hit Submit and check out the new forum header (remember to refresh with SHIFT+F5).