About Me

Submitted by admin on Sat, 2007-01-13 17:44.

Thomas E. Burk is Professor, Department of Forest Resources, College of Food, Agricultural, and Natural Resource Sciences, University of Minnesota. Prior to coming to the University of Minnesota in 1985, he was on the forestry faculty at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. He also has experience with the U.S. Forest Service and has consulted with forestry industries and agencies throughout the United States and Canada. Burk has a Ph.D. in forest biometrics (1981) and an M.S. in statistics (1979) from the University of Minnesota and received a B.S. in forestry from Iowa State University in 1976.

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Start Building a Drupal Taxonomy

Submitted by admin on Sun, 2007-01-14 19:47.

Categories (taxonomies) are one of Drupal's strengths. This was my attempt to get started on building one, primarily to categorize blog entries.

I decided I didn't want too deep a taxonomy hierarchy (a depth of three seemed right), nor one that had a lot of vocabulary items, or top level taxa (three to five). So, I've initially defined three vocabularies corresponding to the three areas I teach, research and play in: Computing, Statistics, and Forestry. I set each of these to be a single hierarchy. Each, for now, is only activated for blog node types.

For each vocabulary I have any number of terms. Right now for Computing those are: Languages, OS, and Software. For Statistics the terms are: Sampling, Regression, Spatial, and Design. For Forestry the terms are: Modeling, Inventory, and Measurements.

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Drupal Clean URLs

Submitted by admin on Sun, 2007-01-14 16:41.

What I found for clean URL setup was a little confusing so here's what I did. I'm running Apache 2 and Drupal 4.7.? on Ubuntu 6.10 Edgy.

Add-in the Apache rewrite module:
sudo a2enmod rewrite

Modify .htaccess in my Drupal root (folder /var/www/burk):

  1. Around line 52, be sure line 'RewriteEngine on' is uncommented
  2. Add line 'Options All' right after line 'RewriteEngine on'
  3. Around line 68, uncomment 'RewriteBase /drupal' line and make it 'RewriteBase /burk' (my Drupal root)
  4. Uncomment the three groups of lines that follow the 'RewriteBase' line related to rewrite conditions and rules
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