Latest version of PHP available for RHEL5.x is 5.1.6 and no new RedHat releases are coming as packaging has ceased. You can get PHP 5.3 for RHEL5 from Remi, but it it’s incompatible with latest versions of Drupal, Civicrm or many modules so we need the a 5.2X branch of PHP. This requires building php [...]
Yesterday I received new installation request from developers to install ApacheSolr module for Drupal. Check this link for more details on Apache Solr Search Integration. Since this is new to me I spent some time on searching and doing test installations. To make it short below is my setup on our shared hosting server running [...]
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There is a module released for monitoring Drupal sites with Nagios. Monitoring includes the check if your site is up and running, check for new updates on Drupal core, security, and modules, database updates, write permission on “files” directory, check if cron is running on the specified period, and other sections of your Drupal site. [...]
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This post cover the steps to copy, transfer, or duplicate a Drupal site to new domain or from development/test site to live/production server. This requires shell/command line access to the server/accounts. I attached (below) some bash/shell scripts below that i used to perform these task. Backup: In case the destination site or account have existing [...]
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I am at Drupal Conference attending the Acquia Apache Solr presentation. This integration has a lot of promise in my opinion. The drupal search is not that useful, we’ve actually replaced drupal search on our implementations with google custom search. Apache Solr is an open source project: Solr is an open source enterprise search server [...]
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