March 2006 - support - lists.drupal.org

RE: [support] Attachments problem
by Metzler, David 20 Mar '06

20 Mar '06

Note the default extensions list for the upload module. jpg jpeg gif png txt html doc xls pdf ppt pps zip is not included. Check out the settings at admin->settings->upload. This is configurable on a per role basis. Dave ________________________________ From: support-bounces(a)drupal.org [mailto:support-bounces@drupal.org] On Behalf Of Bruce Whealton Sent: Sunday, March 19, 2006 9:33 AM To: support(a)drupal.org Subject: [support] Attachments problem Hi, I'm having problems with attachments/uploads to the site. It seems that the uploads that aren't being accepted are zip files. I went into admin/settings/upload and added zip as an attachment that was accepted. I also increased the size of allowable file sizes for uploads. So, the general limit is set to 0 for unlimited file size and then the other max file sizes are 100M. Thus it makes no sense that a 4.6M file in zip format cannot be uploaded to the site. Allowing uploads like this allows customers to send various content for a site in a compressed collection of files. So, is the problem the size limit that can be uploaded to the site? or is it something else that I must set? Thanks in advance, Bruce ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Word Salad Poetry Magazine - join us online at: http://wordsalad.net/ and also -> Check out the Buffy the Vampire Slayer writing Street Exposure - Street Newspaper http://wordsalad.net/StreetExposure/ Bruce Whealton - Webmaster/Designer/publisher/Writer http://trianglewebservices.com/ ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ________________________________ Yahoo! Mail Use Photomail <http://pa.yahoo.com/*http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=38867/*http://photomail .mail.yahoo.com> to share photos without annoying attachments.

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RE: [support] Cookie/Visit Tracking + Redirection
by Metzler, David 20 Mar '06

20 Mar '06

I'd have to agree with Brew. My experience on redirect problems, caused me to write the following function for these kind of redirects. It illustrates exactly what brew was talking about using dirname, etc. Although technically this function should be modified to pull the http or https from the protocol field. <? function redirectFile($file) { header("location:http://" .$_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] . dirname($_SERVER['PHP_SELF']) . "/$file"); return; } ?> -----Original Message----- From: support-bounces(a)drupal.org [mailto:support-bounces@drupal.org] On Behalf Of lists(a)southernohio.net Sent: Friday, March 17, 2006 7:57 PM To: support(a)drupal.org Subject: Re: [support] Cookie/Visit Tracking + Redirection Hey, thanks for that note brew. I'm not sure, that very well may be true as it appears that Firefox is not having any issues. I'm not sure about IE yet, but it is with Safari that I'm struggling, even though, as I said, it will work indefinitely after I've gone through the welcome area that browsing session. ** If anyone does have any further experiences, or even better, if there is a module that handles what I'm wanting to do more efficiently, please advise. Thanks! -George On Mar 17, 2006, at 2:07 AM, brew(a)theMode.com wrote: George.... Well, I'm not going to debug your php (I have enough trouble finding my own bugs!), but one thing I notice: > header('Location:/welcome/index_main_site_entry.php'); seems suspect. The php docs say: header("Location: http://www.example.com/"); /* Redirect browser */ and further note: Note: HTTP/1.1 requires an absolute URI as argument to Location: including the scheme, hostname and absolute path, but some clients accept relative URIs. You can usually use $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'], $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] and dirname() to make an absolute URI from a relative one yourself: Maybe it's only working some of the time, depending on the clients? brew -- [ Drupal support list | http://lists.drupal.org/ ] -- [ Drupal support list | http://lists.drupal.org/ ]

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Cookie/Visit Tracking + Redirection
by lists＠southernohio.net 20 Mar '06

20 Mar '06

I have a situation where I need to push visitors back to a welcoming page if they've not visited the site previously. I have implemented it in the drupal index.php page, however it doesn't seem to be reliably working so I wanted to post this for review, comments and suggestions as to the proper way to control this. Perhaps there is even a module that I'm missing that would be better suited so please advise as you see fit: index.php: *** BEGIN PASTE *** <?php //... First Drupal Comments ... // BEGIN OUR FUNCTIONS // if they're new, send them back to the welcome page, else, check if they come from signup and set has_visited $referring_url = $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER']; // get the referring URL, looking for http://www.mydomain.com/welcome/ $position_result = strpos($referring_url, "welcome"); if ( ($position_result > 0) || isset( $_COOKIE['has_visited'] ) ) { setcookie("has_visited", true, time()+7776000); } else { header('Location:/welcome/index_main_site_entry.php'); } // END OUR FUNCTIONS echo $_SESSION['HTTP_REFERER']; //... rest of index.php ... *** END PASTE *** ALSO, in the index_main_site_entry.php file I would like to test to see if has_visited has been set so that I can pass them on into the site, but I've not been able to make that one work reliably at all. Thanks in advance for your input! -George

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Problems with Clean URLs
by Carl Parrish 19 Mar '06

19 Mar '06

Okay so I didn't have mod_rewrite installed on my Apache box. Thought I was going to need to recompile and therefore it just wasn't worth it. Remembered that I had mod_so install. So I went ahead and installed mod_rewrite. It shows up in phpinfo() now so I assume that the install went okay. Enable cleanURLs in admin->settings. That seems to go okay and now all my links go to nice clean URL's except the URLs actually give me 404 errors. I'm assuming somthing isn't mapping correctly any idea how I can fix this?

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Re: [support] Cookie/Visit Tracking + Redirection (Out of Office/Nie op kantoor)
by Kobus Myburgh 18 Mar '06

18 Mar '06

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OT: E-Commerce Mailing list Announcement
by Gordon Heydon 17 Mar '06

17 Mar '06

Hi, Since E-Commerce is such a big module(s) and has a lot of functionality that really needs a more fluid way of collaborating on ideas and speeding up development. I started discussing this with Dries, but because of time constraints such as Dries getting married, and taking time off to spend time with his new bride this was put into the low priority pile, and we didn't get this completed. So in an interim step, I have created an E-Commerce mailing list from my domain which will allow E-Commerce to move forward hopefully in leaps and bounds. Once Dries gets back from his well deserved break, I will take up the discussion on moving the list to drupal.org where it will gain even more benefit from being under the drupal.org umbrella. in the mean time you can go to http://lists.heydon.com.au/listinfo.cgi/ecommerce-heydon.com.au which will allow you to subscribe to this list, and we can get down the the work of getting the best possible E-Commerce out. Thanks. Gordon.

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Login problem
by Daniel Carrera 16 Mar '06

16 Mar '06

Hello, I just begun using Drupal today. I'm having a strange problem. It's easier to show than to explain. Here is my Drupal site: http://drupal.opendocumentfoundation.org/index.php Try to login. After you press "Log in" you get a second pop-up asking for another username and password. You know when you use .htaccess to require a password? That's the one. Thing is, I didn't put this there, I don't know where it came from. It mentions "Trac" and this server does have Trac installed, but I can't see why Trac would be messing with Drupal. It doesn't make sense. I've searched for a .htaccess file that might be affecting this, and I can't find any. This is so weird. Does anyone have any ideas? Best, Daniel. -- /\/`) http://opendocumentfellowship.org /\/_/ /\/_/ A life? Sounds great! \/_/ Do you know where I could download one? /

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RE: [support] Multiple Drupal Sites Errors
by Metzler, David 16 Mar '06

16 Mar '06

IMHO, the web server configuration for how to "get the web browser to connect your URL with the drupal executables" is a little bit difficult to get in the docs. The options are numerous based on how much control you have on your web configuration evironment, and what web server you're using. Symbolic links are one way to do this; apache aliases are another; in IIS you set up virtual directories. I like using the symbolic links the best, but others have a different interpretation on this issue. You do have gist of the trade-offs in multi-site configuration. Yes if you just created a directory, you'd have to copy all of the code there and then you'd have two drupal code tree's to maintain, upload modules to etc. Symbolic links, apache aliases, or IIS virtual directories let you use one. The durpal "multi-site" install also lets you use common database elements as well, although I don't do that cause I don't really want to share any of the tables between my sites. I keep track of one database per site, and have written cloning scripts to copy one site to another, create new sites based on a skeleton, etc. Dave -----Original Message----- From: support-bounces(a)drupal.org [mailto:support-bounces@drupal.org] On Behalf Of lists(a)southernohio.net Sent: Thursday, March 16, 2006 5:59 AM To: support(a)drupal.org Subject: Re: [support] Multiple Drupal Sites Errors Thanks Jason, it appears that that was the "missing link." :) I did not realize, perhaps I missed it in the installation instructions somewhere, that you should create a symlink to the drupal install as I had assumed that it would by virtue of creating the settings folder, set up the site to generate content based upon the base install. I am now curious, why is this required? And what are the possibilities of having such an arrangement? If for example, I created the folder instead of symlinking it, what could be done in such a case? Would I have to set up another drupal installation therein in order to utilize it? I thought that the primary purpose of this was simply to not have to worry about upgrading multiple drupal installs and modifying multiple code bases as required. Thanks again, -George On Mar 16, 2006, at 12:59 AM, Jason Flatt wrote: On Wednesday 15 March 2006 08:49 pm, lists(a)southernohio.net wrote: > I'm trying to set up the following scenario: > mydomain.com/main is the primary Drupal installation. > > I am wanting users to be able to access a new Drupal site at: > mydomain.com/main/NewSite > > In order to accomplish this, I have the following already in place > (I'm on a linux server with plesk): > ~/httpdocs/main/sites/default/settings.php > ~/httpdocs/main/sites/mydomain.com.main.NewSite/settings.php > > I set the files in ~/httpdocs/main/sites/mydomain.com.main.NewSite/ > settings.php up to the new database for that site, however each time I > go to "www.mydomain.com/main/NewSite" I get the default Drupal site > error: "Page not found" > > I've been pouring over documentation I can find on multiple sites on > one Drupal install, but am not having any luck. Could someone please > offer some suggestions or help to ascertain what might be going wrong > here? > > Thanks so much. > > -George And you put something in ~/httpdocs/main/NewSite/ or created a symlink to ~/httpdocs/main/ and you changed the $base_url in ~/httpdocs/main/sites/mydomain.com.main.NewSite/settings.php to reflect the correct address of http://www.mydomain.com/main/NewSite and you verified your letter case in all places, since you have mixed case directories? -- Jason Flatt http://www.oadae.net/ Father of Six: http://www.flattfamily.com/ (Joseph, 13; Cramer, 11; Travis, 9; Angela; Harry, 5; and William, 12:04 am, 12-29-2005) Linux User: http://www.sourcemage.org/ Drupal Fanatic: http://drupal.org/ -- [ Drupal support list | http://lists.drupal.org/ ] -- [ Drupal support list | http://lists.drupal.org/ ]

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Multiple Drupal Sites Errors
by lists＠southernohio.net 16 Mar '06

16 Mar '06

I'm trying to set up the following scenario: mydomain.com/main is the primary Drupal installation. I am wanting users to be able to access a new Drupal site at: mydomain.com/main/NewSite In order to accomplish this, I have the following already in place (I'm on a linux server with plesk): ~/httpdocs/main/sites/default/settings.php ~/httpdocs/main/sites/mydomain.com.main.NewSite/settings.php I set the files in ~/httpdocs/main/sites/mydomain.com.main.NewSite/ settings.php up to the new database for that site, however each time I go to "www.mydomain.com/main/NewSite" I get the default Drupal site error: "Page not found" I've been pouring over documentation I can find on multiple sites on one Drupal install, but am not having any luck. Could someone please offer some suggestions or help to ascertain what might be going wrong here? Thanks so much. -George

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custom form in drupal 4.7
by Mohammed al-shar' 15 Mar '06

15 Mar '06

hello. any idea if it's possible to creat a similar page like this with drupal 4.7? http://www.mystop.net/services I am using the form.module to create this page, and that is not availlable in 4.7. I don't know how easier it has become after the revised form API in 4.7 thanks mohammed.

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