Kristopher Johnson's questions

I've installed Apache2 and Drupal6 and necessary dependencies on Ubuntu 10.10 (using apt-get install drupal6). When I initially set up Drupal, I accessed it through a URL like this:

http://mydomain.com/drupal6/node

I subsequently set up the virtual host in Apache, like this:

<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerAdmin [email protected]
    ServerName mydomain.com
    ServerAlias mydomain.com *.mydomain.com
    DocumentRoot /usr/share/drupal6
    RewriteEngine On
    RewriteOptions inherit
</VirtualHost>

So now I can get to all my Drupal stuff with this URL:

http://mydomain.com/node

This is all well and good. However, the URLs for the home link in the upper left and the URLs in the Drupal navigation menu still have the /drupal6/ part in them. So, for example, if I click the Administer link, it goes to http://mydomain.com/drupal6/admin, and then all other URLs are relative to that. (Note: http://mydomain.com/admin works just fine too.)

How can I get rid of that /drupal6/ part in the URLs? I can't find anything in settings.php or in the admin screens to change it.

We are using Cables Unlimited USB-2925 USB-to-Dual-DB9 serial cables, which use the Moschip MCS7720 controller. We have downloaded the newest driver from http://www.moschip.com/mcs7720.php, but that driver was last updated in 2005. It does not seem to be working with Macs running OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard.

We have sent emails to the support addresses for both Cables Unlimited and Moschip. Cables Unlimited says they are checking with Moschip. No responses from Moschip yet.

Does anyone know of any updates for this driver, or are there any ways to get the driver to work with Snow Leopard?

I have a Xen-based virtual private server, running Ubuntu. It is running Apache, MySQL, and Drupal.

Usually, it is nice and fast. However, sometimes it slows down for no apparent reason. How can I determine whether the slowdowns are due to resource usage by other VPSes on the same physical hardware, as opposed to slowdowns due to things I can control?

I have a Xen virtual private server (VPS) running Ubuntu 8.10, with 128M RAM.

I've found several "how to optimize Apache and MySQL for low-memory VPS" pages via Google, but they provide contradictory information. So I'm asking Server Fault: how does one optimize Apache and MySQL for a low-memory VPS configuration?

A couple of people have suggested using nginx instead of Apache. I'll look into that, but I'd prefer to stick with Apache if possible, just to avoid having to learn all about configuring application stacks on top of an unfamiliar (to me) web server.