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A complete guide to every aspect of creating a variety of different websites using Drupal. A trove of well-considered and practical information is presented in a logical and intuitive manner so that you can either build up your site step by step by reading from cover to cover or, alternatively, focus on your specific needs by diving into each chapter as required.

This book has been written against the latest release v4.7.

Drupal is one of the most popular content management systems on the internet. Based on PHP/MySQL, its power and flexibility combined with its exceptional design mean it is already on the way to becoming the de facto standard for CMS Websites. Drupal’s modular design and structured source code make it both highly flexible and easily extended and modified. Drupal is extremely scalable, making it ideal for both a simple personal website as well as an industrial strength commercial or institutional web presence.

Drupal is a model open source project in that it has a large, friendly community of people who contribute to the project in various ways. Drupal is not only free and easy to use, but this community provides on going mutual support.

This book will suit anyone who has a need to create a content rich website. Whether you are:

- Adding a personal web page
- Building a forum
- Writing a collaborative book
- Retailing goods
- Creating a blog
- Launching a community Website

Drupal’s power means choosing an initial pathway can be daunting. The flexibility and power of its content management features mean the right approach needs to be taken. This book takes you from initial set up through site design and creation in a series of carefully structured steps. While there are a few advanced topics that are beyond the scope of the book, all of the core stages of creating a website using Drupal are covered in detail.

Chapter 1 introduces you to the world of Drupal and looks at where Drupal comes from, where its going and what it can offer you. Because it is important to understand the nature of the tasks which lie ahead, it also discusses how to plan and build your website, taking a sneak preview of the book's demo Website in the process. Finally, we scrutinize the Drupal community and learn how to make the most of Drupal as an organized, living entity and not just a piece of software.

Chapter 2 deals with how to get everything you need up and running on a development machine and also briefly looks at how all the requisite technologies gel together to produce your working Drupal site. Once everything is up and running, and after looking over some of the more common installation problems, the chapter presents a short tour of Drupal in order to give you an idea of what to expect.

Chapter 3 looks at the most general settings which all Drupal administrators need to contend with. Everything from determining your site's name to dealing with the cache or file system settings gets treated here before we look at more focused and complex issues in the chapters to come.

Chapter 4 sees us adding functionality to the newly created site. The focus of this chapter is really on modules and how they can be added and enabled, or even how to obtain modules that are not part of the standard distribution. Since blocks are often required to display the functionality provided by modules, this chapter ends off with a discussion on how to control blocks.

Chapter 5 concerns itself with the topic of access control. Drupal has a sophisticated role based access control system, which is fundamentally important for controlling how users access your site. This chapter will give you the information you need to implement whatever access controls you require.

Chapter 6 gets to the heart of the matter by beginning the book's coverage on content. Working with content, what content types are available, administering content and even a discourse on some of the more common content related modules serve as a basis for moving to more advanced content related matters that follow in the next chapter.

Chapter 7 gives you the edge when it comes to creating engaging and dynamic content. While this chapter doesn't require you to be an expert in HTML, PHP and CSS it does introduce you to the basics and shows how, with a little knowledge, extremely powerful and professional content can be created. That's only half the story, because later on it looks at categorization and how this particular feature of Drupal sets it apart from everything else out there.

Chapter 8 gives you a run down of how attractive interfaces are created in Drupal through the use of themes. As well as discussing briefly some of the considerations that must be taken into account when planning your website, it ends off by looking at how to make important modifications to your chosen theme.

Chapter 9 really adds the icing on the cake by looking at a host of more advanced topics. From creating flexible content types and generating revenue from ads, all the way through to building dynamic content using Ajax, you will find something to enhance your website and add that something special.

Chapter 10 takes a pragmatic look at the type of tasks you will need to be proficient in in order to successfully run and maintain a Drupal site. Whether its setting up cron jobs or making backups of your database, everything you need to do throughout the course of running your newly created website will be covered here.

Appendix A deals with the all important topic of deployment. Because all major work should be done on a copy of your Website on a development machine, this appendix presents a sound process for taking the finished product and making it available for public consumption on your host site..
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Until recently, the reality of video conferencing didn't live up to the marketing hype. That's all changed The network infrastructure and broadband capacity is now in place to deliver clear, real time video and voice feeds between multiple points of contacts, with market leaders such as Cisco and Microsoft continuing to invest heavily in development. In addition, newcomers Skype and Google are poised to launch services and products targeting this market.

Video Conferencing over IP is the perfect guide to getting up and running with video teleconferencing for small to medium size enterprises. Topic coverage includes how to determine bandwidth needs; configure network routers, gateways, firewalls and switches; and configure, secure and troubleshoot your deployment. Major software solutions from Microsoft, Yahoo, AOL, VidiTel, iVisit, Vibe Phone and Skype are also covered.

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Packed with information, this compact guide is a highly utilitarian tool that covers the Microsoft Outlook® keyboard shortcuts, user interface, commands, and tasks. The Outlook Pocket Guide covers the latest version of Microsoft Outlook and includes:

• A brief explanation of how Outlook works behind the scenes
• An extensive guide section for common tasks as well as little-known solutions
• Reference tables for keyboard shortcuts, regular expressions, and common file locations

This little book is easy to use anywhere-it's the perfect quick reference for a veteran Outlook user who doesn't need a thousand-page tutorial..
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This will grow your understanding and familiarise you with the power and possibilities of vBulletin vBulletin's Administration Control Panel is where you can control every aspect of your board. From users, forums and word filters to skins, templates and maintenance, everything can be done through the web-based control panel. The book devotes significant sections to covering these, getting you up to speed on the options available to you, and offering advice to help you make the right choices with your board administration. To make your forums stand out from the rest, we cover skins and templates to take your first steps in customising your forum. vBulletin is one of the most popular forum platforms available. Well known for its power and speed, it drives many of the most popular discussion forums on the Internet.

The book covers:
Install and configure vBulletin
Learn the your way around vBulletin with a thorough guided tour
Customise your forum to meet the unique requirements of your community
Administer users and posts, appoint staff to moderate your forum – or moderate it yourself
See how to upgrade your vBulletin installation, or upgrade other forum systems to vBulletin
Create a beautiful forum by designing templates or adjusting existing ones
Install hacks to change vBulletin's behaviour or add new features – you will even see how to create your own hacks.
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This book is a comprehensive guide to building and using resilient network-attached storage solutions for your business using FreeNAS Written in an accessible style and filled with facts you need to know, this book will show you how to get things done the right way. This book is for systems administrators who want a low cost, simple way to provide large amounts of network-attached storage. It does not assume knowledge of BSD, and will work for people using FreeNAS in any network environment. .
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#1 Best-Selling PIX Book Completely Updated for Cisco PIX Version 7.0

This completely updated bestseller covers Cisco PIX Security Appliance Software Version 7.0, as well as the entire family of Cisco PIX 500 Series Firewalls. The book clearly explains how to leverage the integrated remote access and site-to-site VPN capabilities found in PIX Firewalls. It also illustrates how to securely extend your network to tele-workers, remote and satellite offices, business partners, suppliers, and customers. The authors thoroughly document all enhancements to PIX 7.0, including virtual LAN (VLAN)-based virtual interfaces, OSPF Dynamic Routing over VPNs, Secure Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTPS) Authentication Proxy, Local User Authentication Database for Network and VPN Access, Advanced Encryption Standard (AES), Support for VPN Accelerator Card+ (VAC+), DHCP Server Support on Multiple Interfaces. Special attention is paid to intrusion protection configuration.

• Create Multiple Security ContextsCreate virtual firewalls within a single appliance, each with its own set of security policies, logical interfaces, and administrative domain.

• Utilize PIX 7.0's Advanced Active Failover DesignCreate an easy-to-manage, high-availability solution using geographically separated appliances, that continuously synchronize their connection state and device configuration data.

• Sleep Easy with Scheduled System ReloadsSchedule PIX security appliance reloads at specific times to better manage network downtime and remote-access VPN connections more efficiently.

• Secure Communications with SSHv2 and Secure Copy ProtocolUse SSHv2 to securely manage PIX appliances and begin using SCP for secure file transfer between appliances.

• Take Advantage of the New ASDMWith ASDM all you need is a Web browser to deploy, configure, and monitor a PIX appliance, or to setup a VPN.

• Deploy OSPF Dynamic RoutingUse OSPF to detect service outages and automatically reroute your network and VPN traffic for optimal performance and flexibility.

• Realize the Benefits of IPv6PIX 7.0 provides IPv6-enabled inspection services for HTTP, FTP, SMTP, ICMP, TCP, and UDP.

• Manage and Contain Malicious AttacksUse your PIX firewall to protect against SYN Floods, malicious fragmentation of traffic, and excessive connection establishment by configuring limits.

• Download the Bonus, Complete E-Book for PIX Software 6.xIf you are migrating from 6.x or running a mixed environment, download a FREE copy of Syngress's best-selling PIX 6.x book.

Your Solutions Membership Gives You Access to:

A comprehensive FAQ page that consolidates all of the key points of this book into an easy-to-search Web page

"From the Author" Forum where the authors post timely updates and links to related sites

Downloadable chapters from these best-selling books:

Configuring NetScreen Firewalls

Dr. Tom Shinder's Configuring ISA Server 2004

Microsoft Log Parser Toolkit

Google Hacking for Penetration Testers

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction to Security and Firewalls

Introduction to PIX Firewalls

PIX Firewall Operations

Adaptive Security Device Manager

Application Inspection

Filtering, Intrusion Detection, and Attack Management

Services

Configuring Authentication, Authorization, and Accounting

PIX Firewall Management

Configuring Virtual Private Networking

Configuring Failover

Troubleshooting and Performance Monitoring.
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Apache Essentials teaches the reader how to install, configure and maintain an Apache web server, proving very useful both to web developers/designers who want to install one from scratch, and those who want to configure and use Apache servers hosted by third party companies. It will cover Mac/Unix, Linux, and Windows-based Apache.

It will also serve to "demystify" Apache, and show readers just how easy it really is (some people are put off it because it is not run on wizards like IIS is, and involves command line stuff and configuration files).
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This book is an easy-to-read guide to using IPCop in a variety of different roles within the network The book is written in a very friendly style that makes this complex topic easy and a joy to read.

It first covers basic IPCop concepts, then moves to introduce basic IPCop configurations, before covering advanced uses of IPCop. This book is for both experienced and new IPCop users.

IPCop is a powerful, open source, Linux based firewall distribution for primarily Small Office Or Home (SOHO) networks, although it can be used in larger networks. It provides most of the features that you would expect a modern firewall to have, and most importantly it sets this all up for you in a highly automated and simplified way. This book is an easy introduction to this popular application.

After introducing and explaining the foundations of firewalling and networking and why they're important, the book moves on to cover using IPCop, from installing it, through configuring it, to more advanced features, such as configuring IPCop to work as an IDS, VPN and using it for bandwidth management. While providing necessary theoretical background, the book takes a practical approach, presenting sample configurations for home users, small businesses, and large businesses. The book contains plenty of illustrative examples.

Chapter 1 briefly introduces some firewall and networking concepts. The chapter introduces the roles of several common networking devices and explains how firewalls fit into this.

Chapter 2 introduces the IPCop package itself, discussing how IPCop's red/orange/blue/green interfaces fit into a network topology. It then covers the configuration of IPCop in other common roles, such as those of a web proxy, DHCP, DNS, time, and VPN server.

Chapter 3 covers three sample scenarios where we learn how to deploy IPCop, how IPCop interfaces connect to each other and to the network as a whole.

Chapter 4 covers installing IPCop. It outlines the system configuration required to run IPCop, and explains the configuration required to get IPCop up and running.

In Chapter 5, we will learn how to employ the various tools IPCop provides us with to administrate, operate, troubleshoot, and monitor our IPCop firewall

Chapter 6 starts off with explaining the need for an IDS in our system and then goes on to explain how to use the SNORT IDS with IPCop.

Chapter 7 introduces the VPN concept and explains how to set up an IPSec VPN configuration for a system. Special focus is laid on configuring the blue zone - a secured wireless network augmenting the security of a wireless segment, even one already using WEP or WPA.

Chapter 8 demonstrates how to manage bandwidth using IPCop making use of traffic shaping techniques and cache management. The chapter also covers the configuration of the Squid web proxy and caching system.

Chapter 9 focuses on the vast range of add-ons available to configure IPCop to suit our needs. We see how to install add-ons and then learn more about common add-ons like SquidGuard, Enhanced Filtering, Blue Access, LogSend, and CopFilter.

Chapter 10 covers IPCop security risks, patch management and some security and auditing tools and tests.

Chapter 11 outlines the support IPCop users have in the form of mailing lists and IRC.

The book is suitable for anyone interested in securing their networks with IPCop - from those new to networking and firewalls, to networking and IT Professionals with previous experience of IPCop. No knowledge of Linux or IPCop is required..
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This book is a complete beginner's guide to every aspect of setting up your dotProject installation. Lee Jordan uses her experience to present real-world examples and detailed walkthroughs that get the most from this powerful project management tool.

This is a comprehensive beginner's book on dotProject and deals with the basics of implementing and configuring dotProject. It is a simple guide to setting up an internal project management solution as quickly as possible, and at zero cost. All the examples in this book are fully practical and will help you to get things done with dotProject. To make sure that you create a site that fits in with your corporate identity, the book covers customizing dotProject to personalize the look for your pages.

dotProject is the most popular open-source project management system. It is maintained by committed volunteers with the goal of providing a project management environment with a sensible user interface free to everyone. dotProject is web-based, multi-user, multi-language-enabled software that enables you to create, track, and maintain any kind of project, although the examples in this book relate to a software project.

• Install and use the dotProject project management system
• Customize and extend dotProject
• Work with reports and Gantt charts
• Configure dotProject for LDAP authentication and PostNuke
• Customize dotProject to blend with your corporate sites

This book is a fast-paced, practical guide to getting things done with dotProject. It illustrates an easy and effective method to handle projects with the help of extensive real-world examples.

The book is for a person or a group of people who are looking for an efficient and flexible project management tool for managing any kind of project. They may be users with technical knowledge such as system administrators or IT professionals, or users with basic computer and internet skills who want a project management tool that they can learn easily without having to learn HTML or a programming language. No prior experience of formal project management is required.

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