When copying the files of a Drupal install, do not forget to copy Drupal's .htaccess file. If you've had the vexing problem where a site you've just manipulated has clean URLs turned on but they suddenly don't work, this may well be the reason. It took me fixing this problem many times before I realized what was going on.

Scenario

You make a directory for a new site, cd to the new directory, and use drush to download Drupal.

% mkdir mynewsite
% cd mynewsite
% drush dl drupal

Seeing the output of phpinfo() is as easy as going to URL /admin/reports/status/php (e.g. http://www.example.com/admin/reports/status/php) on any Drupal site, when logged in to administer the site. This is quicker than writing a one-line PHP program yourself to call this function as suggested in a previous post on finding, changing, and verifying changes to your PHP initialization file.

I am excited to announce that I have joined imbee.com as a full-time employee, as of today. Imbee.com is a secure social network for kids, and I will be helping grow imbee's technology platform, which is based on Drupal.