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Bryght Basic Update: Security Fixes in Drupal 5.2, OpenID, Persistent Login, FeedBurner Support Along With Syslog Messaging

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Posted July 31st, 2007 by Richard Eriksson
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This afternoon we are releasing new functionality, bug fixes and security patches to our release of the Bryght Basic profile for VPS customers as part of the 2007-07-31 tag. While we haven't made any configuration changes, we've added the OpenID module, for logging into multiple sites (the OpenID logo more information about OpenID), Drupal or otherwise; the Persistent Login module, which adds "Remember me" checkbox at the bottom of the user login box; and the FeedBurner module (tiny FeedBurner logo more information about FeedBurner and its services), so you can redirect your RSS feeds to FeedBurner to keep track of statistics and add other features the service provides. Documentation on setting up and using those modules is forthcoming.

We have not yet deployed these changes for Bryght Lite hosted service customers.

The tag includes the official Drupal 5.2 release, which incorporates some security patches—see below for some special instructions regarding settings.php—and various bug fixes. Also, VPS customers can send Drupal system messages to Syslog, which lets you route them to a log file or to another monitoring service. (System messages can still be logged in the database using the new "Database logging" module.).

Update: those who retrieved the tag last night will want to run svn update, as we added some very minor fixes to the .info files of some of the modules.

Updating to the Latest Tag for Existing VPS Customers

Visit our instructions on updating to a new tag, using 2007-07-31 as the tag. To re-iterate the instructions there: backup your database, run the Subversion command listed in the instructions, run the update.php file to keep your database up to date.

Special Notice for Securing settings.php Files on Your VPS

The security updates for Drupal 5.2 contain instructions to modify your settings.php file.

These instructions may result in very brief downtime for your site, as settings.php is crucial to its functioning.

  1. View the existing settings.php file and copy the line that starts with $db_url = , which is unique to all sites.
  2. Backup your existing settings.php file. Use the command mv settings.php settings.php.bak to do that.
  3. Run svn update to get our updated settings.php file.
  4. Edit the new settings.php file, replacing the line that starts with $db_url = .

Please do not hesitate to contact Bryght Support if you have any difficulty with the above instructions.