Running Drupal from a sub-directory with htaccess

Judging by the amount of activity at http://drupal.org/node/144643 this is common issue for Drupalers.

There are a lot of good reasons to run Drupal in a directory other than root and it has certainly saved me a lot of headaches when clients have asked for something else installed alongside Drupal on the same host and makes staged upgrades a snap.

The process is remarkably simple with a little .htaccess magic.

Assuming you installed Drupal in a sub-directory of your webroot called drupal your root directory .htaccess should look like this:

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Using taxonomy_menu to replicate Joomla sections and categories

If you are coming from Joomla! you have not doubt run into some frustrations trying to get Drupal's menus setup the way you want.  The taxonomy_menu module provides an easy way to setup a very similar system in Drupal.  Like most things in Drupal there is a lot more than one way to solve this problem but this is the one that works best for me.

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