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After updating/upgrading your website it is often necessary to define some 301 redirects to make sure end users don't come across a broken link or a file not found error. While defining a 301 redirect in your .htaccess file or through the cPanel of your webhost is not hard to do, it is easier just to download and enable the Path Redirect module. Drupal relies heavily on mod_rewrite and has a lot of rewriting rules defined so it is easy to get an infinite loop redirect when trying to edit the .htaccess file directly.

If you have any modules that add external JavaScript to your pages (like Google Analytics), make sure you have the line <?php print $closure; ?> in your .tpl.php files right before the end </body> tag. If you don't have this line the external scripts will not be loaded and will not be added to your pages.

This should be the first thing you should check if Google Analytics is configured correctly on your site, but is not showing any data in the Google Analytics reports.

Here is a way to have Drupal send you an email when a new comment has been posted on your site. This method uses the built in modules, Actions and Triggers, that come with Drupal core. You may want to check out my post on good contributed modules to add to Drupal to block spam, or else you will eventually receive more emails than you probably want to.

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Log in and make sure the Actions and Trigger modules are enabled.

Over time, you may find that your production website and the local copy of your website become out of sync. You might find it necessary to create a backup of your site to place on your local machine so that you can test new development features.

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To do this you will need a local server on which you can run PHP and mySQL. I recommend using MAMP, WAMP, LAMP or XAMPP.

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Next you will need to make a back-up of your Drupal database. Many hosting solutions provide the ability to perform database back-ups through the control panel for your hosting account. Otherwise, you can download the Backup and Migrate module to perform a database backup through the admin interface of your website.

Here are some PHP snippets to display data from custom profile fields you can set up using the core profile module in Drupal 6. In this first example I have a custom user profile field that holds the user's location with the machine-readable name of profile_location. The first block of code stores the location of the user who is logged in in the variable theLocation. The second block of code displays this value.