Setup ssh key authentication for password-less login between servers. For use by ssh/sftp users or scripts. Source Server (or local system) Generate RSA key for user on this system, you can also use DSA. This asks for key pass-phrase but you can leave it blank. ssh-keygen -t rsa This asks for location to place the [...]
Setup sftp-only access on default Redhat/CentOS install. Use built-in sftp-server which is non-chrooted and easy to setup. Server: Locate sftp-server binary and add to your list of valid shells on the system. which sftp-server Note: This will most likely give you this: /usr/libexec/openssh/sftp-server echo /usr/libexec/openssh/sftp-server >> /etc/shells Note: You may want to backup your /etc/shells [...]
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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 [...]
Besides Gmail, many sites are moving to GoogleApps for hosting their emails, and if you use Gmail or GoogleApps a lot then you might love the keyboard shortcuts feature. You can quickly see available shortcut keys by typing “?” (question mark, no qoutes) and it will give you this screen. Of course you need to [...]
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Here is a quick tip on how to remove a list of files. Let’s say you have the list of files inside a file called files_to_remove. Usually I would do something like this: LIST=`cat files_to_remove` and then ls -al $LIST just to check what is in the list and if it looks good. And finally: [...]
While working on setting up a backup script for a subversion repository I encountred an interesting problem. I’ve done this before many times, on different repos, and haven’t seen any issues, but in this case the backup command that is using the built-in svnadmin hotcopy command was failing with this error: svnadmin hotcopy –clean-logs /svn/repo/ [...]
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APC (Alternative PHP Cache) is a free, open, and robust framework for caching and optimizing PHP intermediate code. APC is a great tool to speed up a php driven site and I can’t even think of a big site running on a php framework without an opcode cache (other good choices are eaccelerator or xcache). [...]
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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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 [...]
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