The common headache for beginners who try to move their Drupal site with CiviCRM is the CiviCRM configuration on new location or domain. I did this countless times and dealt with different problems before. I’ve read many online tutorials and how-tos, and I finally have my notes which is working for me everytime i move [...]
I’ve written few Drupal ApacheSolr install guides here and this one is basically an install draft for Ubuntu. Environment: Ubuntu 10.10, Apache, PHP, MySQL, Drupal 6.20 Things to install / setup: Solr, Tomcat6, ApacheSolr module for Drupal, and SolrPHPClient library 1.) Install Tomcat and setup your Tomcat admin user. aptitude install tomcat6 tomcat6-admin tomcat6-common tomcat6-user [...]
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Below is my presentation from Drupal Con 2011 where Promet Source, a Drupal Development Company based out of Chicago was a Gold sponsor. Although none or our proposed talks got in, we did get a slot at the Main stage. Below are the slides of my talk. Basically we wanted to highlight that while we [...]
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Here’s my quick install guide for Solr, Tomcat, and Drupal ApacheSolr module for multiple sites. Mostly I based the steps below from the following sites: wiki.apache.org and drupalconnect.com. Detailed Setup: Drupal 6.19 ApacheSolr module 6-1.1 Apache Solr PHP Client Library: Rev.22 Solr 1.4.1 Tomcat 6.0.29 SunJDK 6update21 RHEL5.5×64 Install Process: Tomcat Create solr user Download [...]
Tags: apachesolr·solr·tomcat
I have already mentioned that google will start penalizing your site in search if it is not fast enough. I have recently given a presentation at Drupal Con about Drupal performance and page speed. Below is a video of our session – its currently the fifth most watched session from the conference according to archive.org. [...]
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Some of us are attending the San Francisco Drupalcon 2010 this week. I am in a session which some of you may find interesting. The concepts are far from revelational but they are relevant. Most security
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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 on [...]
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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 we can’t [...]
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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 [...]
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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 where I [...]
Tags: cvs·drupa update
