Drupal

It's quite possible to run Drupal using AwardSpace.com free hosting.  However your initial installation is likely to generate 500 Internal Server Errors.  Here is how to overcome the errors and get Drupal running.

1. Upload Drupal to your domain folder (or a folder of your choice).
2. Comment out the following lines in the .htaccess (add a # before them)
   Options -Indexes
Options +FollowSymLinks
DirectoryIndex index.php
3. Uncomment the following line (remove the # before it)
   RewriteBase /

You should now be able to install Drupal.

Note: Do not use localhost as the host name.  Create your database first, and the details will be shown in the AwardSpace control panel.

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I have been trying to configure the Cron for my Drupal installations on OpenSourceHost.com. The tutorial on the OpenSourceHost.com site isn't up to the job really. Whatever configuration I tried gave me an error. So I emailed them and they sent me the correct parameters, which I'll share here with you.

Before doing this I highly recommend you rename your cron.php file, to something only you know. Leaving it as cron.php means anyone can run it.

To run the Drupal Cron enter: mywget -O - -q http://www.YourDomainName.com/YourCronFile.php

Due to a security worm some time ago, most Unix servers deny web form posts containing words such as curl , get , or mywget.

This can be a problem if you simply want to use one of those words in a post on Drupal or WordPress. The easy work around is to use the   character after the blocked word.   means Non Breaking SPace. Adding it after the blocked word works because the Unix system won't parse the command, as   is invalid.

Another solution is to break the line after the blocked word, as the Unix command containing the blocked word must be on a single line. This doesn't work if you are using automatic line breaking with Drupal or WordPress, though, so go with the first option.

Here is a working format for Drupal Cron tasks on hostgator.com. After much hunting around, as one often has to do, I have found a working format. It's a shame the host's help files are not more forthcoming with this information. I had to trawl through lots of forum posts to find this.

POST http://www.yourdomain.com/cron.php /dev/null

I strongly recommend that you rename your cron.php file, or else anyone can run it.