February 2005 - support - lists.drupal.org

[drupal-support] ping documentation
by Maykel Moya 20 Feb '05

20 Feb '05

Where can I read something about the usage of ping module. Regards mike

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Re: [drupal-support] Uploads not appearing
by Gerhard Killesreiter 18 Feb '05

18 Feb '05

On Wed, 5 Jan 2005, Joel Gwynn wrote: > Happy New Year. I took a break from fighting with this, but I have > some time to devote again. Any ideas about where to begin > troubleshooting this? I've finally got around to setting up a drupal site on Debian. I can confirm that there seems to be some kind of problem with file uploads. Files do not get uploaded the first time I try, but only on the second try (ie after selecting the image for upload again). Very strange. Cheers, Gerhard

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[drupal-support] drupal.org template feature
by Abalieno 15 Feb '05

15 Feb '05

I've noticed that the official site uses two different settings for the layout by default. On the normal nodes on the homepage the comments are shown by default in a threaded mode, while on the forum they are shown as a flat list. Is this possible in a normal version of the engine or it's a specific hack just for drupal.org? All I know is that I can set a general preference but I cannot set the homepage in a way and the forum in another. -HRose / Abalieno

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[drupal-support] How to center logo?
by Rick 15 Feb '05

15 Feb '05

Hi, I searched: logo "and" center, but got no hits on both words. I am setting up my website and simply want to center the logo. I am using Marvin and got rid of the backgroud image with css. Now I want to center the logo that is stuck to the left side. I spent an hour in the fourms search also and could not find this info. I spent hours searching the css sheets with no luck. Thanks for any info anyone can provide, I will take guesses at this point :) Rick WhatonMars.com

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[drupal-support] Again on the "remember me" option
by Abalieno 11 Feb '05

11 Feb '05

I'm still struggling with this problem without being able to solve it, so here I'll write more details and maybe someone will be able to help me figure out why the feature isn't working correctly and if it's a problem of my configuration or a bug in Drupal. I use a relatively unmodified version of Drupal 4.5.2 The only "quirk" is that the engine is in a /drupal/ subdirectory. So the real address is: http://www.cesspit.net/drupal/ To redirect there I have an .htaccess directly into http://www.cesspit.net/ which just contain a line: DirectoryIndex drupal/index.php This redirects to the subdir whenever the basic address is accessed. and it seems to work. I cannot install drupal in the main directory because the http://www.cesspit.net/admin/ shortcut is used by the provider to access the admin pages of the website, so it prevents drupal to work in the case I install it there. The other technical details are that I use PHP 4.3.8 and Apache 2.0.50 The .htaccess file in have on the /drupal subdirectory is exactly the one in default package. The only difference is that I followed the instructions, replacing <IfModule mod_php4.c> With: <IfModule sapi_apache2.c> This considering that I run the site on Apache 2. But this didn't produce any effect. The sessions weren't saved and every time I closed the browser I had to log in my site again. To solve this problem I had to directly edit the php.ini file in /etc/ So I searched for the session.cookie_lifetime and set it to 2000000 instead of 0 (the previous value). >From my attempts I realized that my site simply ignores what's written in the drupal's .htaccess. I tried to set the value in php.ini to 8000000 (which should correspond to four months) and the one in the .htaccess to 6000000 (which should be three months). And looking directly at the cookie stored in my browser I saw it always behave as the php.ini value, no matter what value I put in the .htaccess file. Anyway, setting the php.ini file solved the problem of the cookie. I use Firefox 1.0 as browser and I can see that there's a cookie expiring in May, about three months from now and exactly following the value in the php.ini. Now the session is somewhat saved. I can shut down the browser, reopen it and I'm still logged in. But if I don't go back within an hour or so I have to relog *again*. So the cookie basically works for some time but then vanishes in the void. Absolutely ignoring the fact that it should last at least THREE MONTHS. So, please, is someone able to figure out what is happening? -HRose / Abalieno

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[drupal-support] DNS settings for multisite Drupal
by Bèr Kessels 09 Feb '05

09 Feb '05

Hi, I have been playing with the multisite Drupal, but I cannot get the DNS settings right, so maybe someone can point me in the right direction. I have and old domain, partyfashion.net It contains a devel site HEAD, with multisiste patches. I used to have: partyfashion.net. A 82.138.75.23 www.partyfashion.net. CNAME partyfashion.net. which showed me the multisite thing worked: sites/www.partyfashion.net/ and sites.partyfashion.net were called differently. Now I added a qrio.partyfashion.net. CNAME partyfashion.net. but from then on things weant wrong. qrio.partyfashion.net now points to 82.138.75.23, which is (or seems to be) the basedir of the host. This is wrong. After fiddling around a bit, i broke things even more: www.partyfashion.net. CNAME partyfashion.net. is still in place, but the www one now also points to the wrong direction. So far the explanation. Can anyone tell me: * what type of DNS (PTR, A, CNAME etc) I need to point a foo.mydomain.com to mydomain.com, where the multisiste drupal resides. * if its possible to use wildcards: e.g. *.partyfashion.net. CNAME partyfashion.net. should get the settings from the multisite drupal. I only have to add a folder in the sites dir, and no not have to go to my dns settings everytime * What type of settings I would need for a complete new domainame: e.g. if i want foobar.com to use my multisite Drupal living in partyfashio.net. If i manage to get my settings right, with some help. And if I start understanding the DNS basics with that help, I will make this into a handbook page: DNS settings for multisite Drupal. Regards, Bèr -- [ Bèr Kessels | Drupal services www.webschuur.com ]

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[drupal-support] Looking for a Drupal 4.5.2 database
by Dries Buytaert 09 Feb '05

09 Feb '05

We're looking for representative Drupal 4.5.2 databases that we can use for benchmarking purpose. We favor (a) largish databases (b) that continue to work in absence of contributed/custom modules. We'll upgrade one or more databases to Drupal 4.6/HEAD to compare performance of Drupal 4.5 with Drupal 4.6/HEAD. If you want to help, or if you have a database to share, let us know within the next few hours. (We only have access to these benchmark machines for a few days.) Any recommendations for benchmark tools (that run on Linux) are much appreciated as well. -- Dries Buytaert :: http://www.buytaert.net/

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[drupal-support] SQL error after upgrade to 4.5.2
by Erik Steffl 09 Feb '05

09 Feb '05

just upgraded to 4.5.2 (debian unstable package), mostly using update.php script (I upgraded some stuff by hand, comparing my db structure to database.mysql), the db structure seems OK now (I checked it against database.mysql. it seems to be mostly working, only see one problem, there's an error message on the top of the page (and no RSS feeds are working): --------------- cut here -------------- user error: You have an error in your SQL syntax. Check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near '' at line 1 query: SELECT * FROM aggregator_item WHERE fid = 0 ORDER BY timestamp DESC, iid DESC LIMIT 0, in /usr/share/drupal/includes/database.mysql.inc on line 125. --------------- cut here -------------- this is in the grey rectanlge on the top of the page (I don't think there wasany grey rectangle there befreo upgrade), I checked the SQL query and it seems to be OK, I tried it in mysql and it worked (got zero results but no complains about syntax). mysql> desc aggregator_item; +-------------+--------------+------+-----+---------+----------------+ | Field | Type | Null | Key | Default | Extra | +-------------+--------------+------+-----+---------+----------------+ | iid | int(10) | | PRI | NULL | auto_increment | | fid | int(10) | | | 0 | | | title | varchar(255) | | | | | | link | varchar(255) | | | | | | author | varchar(255) | | | | | | description | longtext | YES | | NULL | | | timestamp | int(11) | YES | | NULL | | +-------------+--------------+------+-----+---------+----------------+ 7 rows in set (0.00 sec) this is what I get in the log (I get one for each access, no matter which page/link): Type error Date Monday, 2005, February 7 - 4:45pm User admin Location /drupal/?q=admin&from=2650 Message user error: You have an error in your SQL syntax. Check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near '' at line 1 query: SELECT * FROM aggregator_item WHERE fid = 0 ORDER BY timestamp DESC, iid DESC LIMIT 0, in /usr/share/drupal/includes/database.mysql.inc on line 125. Hostname 207.126.234.69 any ideas what went wrong or at least how to debug this further? erik

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[drupal-support] Title of the page
by Abalieno 08 Feb '05

08 Feb '05

Right now on my current installation whenever I look at a node the title of the page shows: "title of the node" | "Name of the site" This seems silly since the order is supposed to be inverted. There's some sort of setting or it's something hardcoded? There is a simple way to swap them? -HRose / Abalieno

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[drupal-support] menu block and viewing nodes
by Todd Howard 07 Feb '05

07 Feb '05

Couldnt find anything on this ... I'm using multiple vocabularies with a menu associated to each one. I want to only show one menu block at a time. So I defined the menu blocks path with the appropriate taxonomy/terms, i.e., <term/(1|2|4|86|107)>. Just one problem, the menu block goes away when a node is viewed. This makes sense because the URL is for a node and not a term. Really would like to have the menu block available when viewing a node that is in the appropriate term. Any other methods available? Thanks for the help !!! Todd

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