This tip is handy if you have a need to specify a new frontpage node on your Drupal site and cannot get into the admin pages to change it. You can specify a number of configuration items in the settings.php file for your site.
In this case your are going to set the frontpage configuration. Near the bottom of your settings.php file is a section that is commented our by default for overriding configuration settings. Just add the following code below and change ‘node/1’ to whatever node you want for your new frontpage.
$conf = array ( ‘site_frontpage’ => ‘node/1’,);
One big thing not to forget is the comma after the last setting statement.
We ran into this the other day helping somone on #drupal-support irc who had a multisite Drupal setup with subdirectories. He had removed the panels module and the site went belly up.
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