As you might notice, howforge.com has just been upgraded to Drupal 4.7.0. This is a big move because I had no time to upgrade since Drupal 4.7.0 beta 6. Anyway, I did it so smooth like before. In addition, I also reorganized all third-party modules to store in specific sites only. Since my development machine is running inside VMware player, I modified a few configurations to make it compatible with this hosting machine.

• Add a hostname to /etc/hosts and C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\hosts for the development machine (myvm.com)
• Add a virtualhost to apache2 to the drupal path
• Create settings.php in sites/default, sites/myvm.com and sites/howforge.com
• Move all third-party modules and customized themes to sites/default
• Create symbolic links to the modules and themes in sites/myvm.com and sites/howforge.com

Moreover, I switched to use the up-to-date codes from the CVS tagged as DRUPAL-4-7 instead. By this way, there is no original files are modified. I just need to run "cvs update" to upgrade my site instantly.

Note that all bugs related to blogapi have been fixed. I do recommend all you to upgrade to 4.7. It rocks! By the way, if you found something weird after upgrading or moving things around like me, don’t panic. You could solve the problem by just simply go to admin/themes and admin/modules and then push save button in those pages. Everything will be fixed automatically. They are just caches.

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