Drupal Website Hardening Considerations

Drupal's default configuration seems intended more for websites designed to enable visitors to create Drupal accounts and use a Drupal website as an authenticated (logged in) user. However, sometimes a Drupal website needs to be configured to limit external access, for sites not intended for visitor login, and, for example, to increase security. There are multiple threat vectors that can be hardened with some basic and quite accessible and easy to use, Drupal development community contributed, configuration modules. 

Search404 Module Installation

The Search404 module redirects HTTP Error 404, page not found, errors to the Drupal search page. This module is good for SEO because search engines no longer detect page not found errors because all missing pages get redirected to the Drupal search page.

Module Essentials

When creating an initial base Drupal website installation, even before beginning site building or other site development work, there is a set of Drupal modules that have become essential components for any and every Drupal website. A list of these essential Drupal modules includes (but might not be limited to):

the morethanthemes team

The Drupal CMS website development system is constructed by thousands of people from all over the world. A group from among the most skilled Drupal developers creating tools for Drupal are the morethanthemes.com Drupal front-end development and theming development team. Among the morethanthemes.com development team members are:

Stavros Kounis

George Tsopouridis