Comments on: Building a Website with Drupal 6 – Part 3: Configuring your Site

By: Piapoco

Piapoco — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 15:13:05 +0000

Mary, this is THE ONE DRUPAL TUTORIAL. You deserve a direct trip to the nicest part of heaven, when your time comes! Thanks a lot!

One more Drupal newbie

By: Buzznode

Buzznode — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 02:28:14 +0000

Thanks for the tutorials. Very helpful for a Drupal newbie! Keep up the great work. :0)

By: Nye

Nye — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 19:30:26 +0000

I’m a newbie to Drupal. And is currently taking classes to become a developer, and i have to say, drupal doesn’t make it simple for me to understand where to start and how to begin.

This is great! Thank you for taking the time to teach and show us what we can do with it!

By: bestofca

bestofca — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 04:44:32 +0000

Thank you much for your help. I just did some changes as you have suggested. I will keep exploring more security tools.

By: mary

mary — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 18:34:40 +0000

Administer->Site Configuration->Input format.

The default one is Filtered HTML. Click configure on that option, and then on the next page click the configure tab. You can then remove the anchor tag “a” from the list, as well as any other HTML tags you want to disallow. I generally pick the “strip disallowed tags” option, and this removes any tags that are not on the list. Some spammers can be pretty persistent but once they realize their links are not being recognized as such then they stop.
If you’re using a simple Captcha, those have been cracked numerous time. ReCaptcha is a lot better.

Definitely also consider banning the IP addresses, email addresses etc. this user is posting from. Look under Administer->User management->Access rules. Implement very tight moderation of content. Eventually the spammers do move on, but this is every site administrators headache.

mary

By: bestofca

bestofca — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 18:23:12 +0000

Yes I do have CAPTCHA after the first incidence but this person keep coming day in day out not sure why.

Where do you disable HTML? I haven’t try that but I will be doing tonight if possible.

Thank you much for your help.

By: mary

mary — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 16:49:36 +0000

Do you have reCAPTCHA installed and set up on your site? I’ve found that this deters a lot of spammers. You could also disable the ability to post HTML links on the posts. One other option is to ban the IP addresses in use so they can’t access the site.

You don’t want to make user submissions difficult because then that will discourage genuine people from posting on your site. Just add some deterrents to make it harder and less attractive for spammers.

By: bestofca

bestofca — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 16:47:22 +0000

All this info is on User Management section.