Submitted by helma on Wed, 2009-09-02 21:21
All the recommendations for Organic Groups (OG) made me curious. Can I use them for my purposes and safely hand over part of the responsabilities of managing restricted content?
Submitted by helma on Wed, 2009-09-02 18:54
The current configuration includes many modules, a.o. I18n, Content Access, Views and CCK. With these I'm able to define roles, grant restricted access to nodes based on roles and keep the site bi-lingual (Dutch and English, with the largest part of the content in Dutch). This works fairly well.
Submitted by helma on Wed, 2009-09-02 18:11
Although I subscribe to the ideas in the book (see my previous post) that you need to write user stories and follow an architectural approach, my main goal here is to see whether Organic Groups provide features I need in the next version of my website.
Submitted by helma on Wed, 2009-09-02 12:20
Submitted by helma on Wed, 2008-12-31 00:31
The update to Wordpress 2.7 goes as painless as described in the docs. However, after importing and editing posts, I always end up with an 500 internal server error. Haven't found the cause yet. Happens with both a manual upgrade and a clean install from an Installtron script in Plesk. Strange thing is it happens only with the imported posts, not with the newly created ones.
Submitted by helma on Sun, 2008-11-02 12:43
In an attempt to update Drupal to it's latest version (6.5) I decided to test it on my local setup. Lo and behold, I got an 'Access denied'. After testing out several possible causes, I googled around.
The answer: a few days ago I setup an SMB share on my home folder, with access for only my user account, no access for 'everyone'. That resulted in a permissions change on my home folder, even after removing the SMB share.
The solution: sudo chmod o+rx [home folder]
Submitted by helma on Sat, 2008-09-06 18:42
Something I never experienced on my local setup suddenly happened on the production site: random white pages. Consistent in that it was always the same pages (e.g. admin/build/modules), but random because most content pages would show up fine and many admin pages as well.
Digging aroung showed an error in the Apache log:
Fatal error: Allowed memory size of X bytes exhausted
Submitted by helma on Sat, 2008-09-06 08:42
Finally I thought it was time to move my Gallery2 configuration + albums to the production site. This time making sure that I took the necessary precautions.
Yes, it was uploaded without errors and yes, I could switch off maintenance mode and yes, I could see my pictures and enter the site admin mode etc.
Submitted by helma on Thu, 2008-09-04 23:06
Drupal is growing on me: I like it more and more and I'm capable of doing much more with Drupal after a few months than I could with Joomla after the same amount of studying.
However, today I spend more than an hour figuring out why I couldn't get the CAPTCHA module to produce an image on a Webform form.
Finally, after googling around I found the answer: I can't set it in the edit mode of the form, only in the VIEW mode. So much for subtleness.
Submitted by helma on Mon, 2008-08-25 16:52
During the reinstallation of Gallery2 I also wanted to set the database username to the same name as the production site to have as few differences as possible. I ran into a problem I had before when installing Drupal: the only connection allowed was using user 'root'. Whenever I used a user with a password who had only privileges on a single database I got an 'access denied' error. However, on the production site the installation with a username and password went well and using the username and password and logging in in a terminal using the mysql commandline also worked well.
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