Linux System Admins Blog

I made a copy of Drupal6 site with SecurePages module installed and configured. This module is configured to redirect all or certain pages to https – depending on your configurations. For our setup we usually include the login and admin sections to redirect to https.
The problem is on the copied site that is [...]

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I noticed lots of email being relayed on one of our shared hosting server, CentOS5 with Cpanel and running Exim, and the strange thing is that the email server (MX) for these accounts are pointing to Google (GoogleApps), and we have correct entries for localdomains and remotedomains for these account. The relayers (‘From’ server/address) [...]

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Although we made it a standard not to make any changes to Drupal core and core modules, there are times that our developers really need to make changes to core modules in order to add the required functionality. Cases like additional feature for ‘user’ or ‘comment’ modules and so on. At this state [...]

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You may know that Drupal’s developers have a saying about hacking core, its whenever you hack core, god kills a kitten.
Well, whether it may or may not be true, we have learned the hard way how much can go wrong when a developer hacks core to meet some requirements and does not tell the sysadmin [...]

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Absolute Path Error:
cvs [checkout aborted]: absolute pathnames invalid for server (specified `/path/drupalsite/’)
Ok, I got the error above when I performed Drupal CVS update on our Debian server (newly installed CVS 1.12.13). The same command works on other server with older CVS installation. The issue is the reference to local cvs directory [...]

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Last December I gave a talk at the Chicago Drupal Meet Up on increasing your Drupal site’s performance.  I thought I would share the slides from that presentation with everyone – so here it is.  I tried to cover a fairly wide array of topics at a high level.  We started with page load performance [...]

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