Sundance

I have been pretty successful in installing Drupal. The last hurdle is to understand this Ping module.

Obviously it is designed to ping various sites to notify of changes and updates. It seems to be configured to ping a site called www.pingomatic.com which in turn pings the other major ping servers, such as weblogs.com etc.

There are several issues with this. Firstly it is hard to tell if you have the module switched on or not. Although it is part of the core module set in drupal in won't function without Cron (although you wouldn't know that if you didn't look for info on it). As I am hosting with a fairly cheap company, I don't have cron configured on my server. Problem easily solved by registering (for free) with www.webcron.org

Now that I have cron set up (hourly) I assume that the ping module is doing its thing. I decided to hack the module and get it to ping a whole bunch of servers, instead of just www.pingomatic.com. In the end though I couldn't quite get my head around the code so I let it be.

So now it's experiment time. I am going to post this and then see what gets pung!

I'll post back later with my response.