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Re: [support] support Digest, Vol 133, Issue 12
by Roger 07 Jan '14

07 Jan '14

My apologies for the misleading post. I put the garland new theme, renamed sandbox, in /sites/all/themes, I simply neglected to specify the absolute path in my post. I do understand that core themes are overwritten, thanks anyway. Unfortunately there is much much more to theming than is apparent in the Zen guidelines. Having read the Zen theming guide and others and worked across a number of issues thus created, I opted for a quick" cop out theme" tool that" just worked" that I could simply recreate if messed up. I have studied themes created by other very competent drupal themers and find few if any comply strictly with W3C guidelines but that is a problem caused by other issues that I prefer to not comment on. Also, having worked briefly in RubyOn Rails applications and theming for that scenario I find Drupal/php theming quite ill conceived and overly complex. If one understands the RoR framework scenario and applies that to Drupal instead of just plain CMS, one finds lines along which Drupal could develop which make site development so much easier. But that's all very off topic. Roger > Start by reading the documentation. New themes don't go in the /themes > folder. They go in /sites/all/themes folder. If you put them in /themes > they go away when you upgrade. > > The readme in Zen tells you how to create subthemes - which apply to > subthemes of almost any theme. > > I would start on the handbook pages about themes. > >> >Hi all. >> >I gave up on creating theme from Zen and simply made a new theme from a >> >copy of Garland. Just copied Garland theme to my /themes folder, >> >renamed, changed the .info and replaced all instances of garland with >> >my theme name in the template.php and theme-settings.php files. Seems >> >to work, looks neat, changes colours ok. >> >

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Drupal theming
by Roger 07 Jan '14

07 Jan '14

Hi all. I gave up on creating theme from Zen and simply made a new theme from a copy of Garland. Just copied Garland theme to my /themes folder, renamed, changed the .info and replaced all instances of garland with my theme name in the template.php and theme-settings.php files. Seems to work, looks neat, changes colours ok. Garland has a printer friendly output link which displays in Admin but not as user. The browser display of printed version is wrong and quite unlike the actual pdf created when I <CTRL P> and print to pdf. Also displays header and url and main menu links on the top of the print page with tags and system date at the bottom of page, I dont want any of this so am completely stuck on how to modify the print out. There's a lot of google pages but nothing helps and with the majority being for drupal 6 or just plain wrong are of no help at all. Don't understand where to look or what to do to modify things, Can someone please help Thanks Roger

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Re: [support] WYSIWYG/CKEditor Heading Buttons
by Alison 07 Jan '14

07 Jan '14

Haven't done it for while, but if I remember correctly there should be a selection to customise CKEditor in the Configuration - Content Authoring - WYSIWYG Profiles. Alison At 11:03 AM 07-01-14, you wrote: >I've just installed WYSIWYG 7.x-2.2 and CKEditor (3.6.3.7474) and can't find a setting to turn on header tag (h2, h3, etc.) buttons. Anyone know how to get them? > >Nancy >-- >[ Drupal support list | http://lists.drupal.org/ ]

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WYSIWYG/CKEditor Heading Buttons
by Nancy Wichmann 07 Jan '14

07 Jan '14

I've just installed WYSIWYG 7.x-2.2 and CKEditor (3.6.3.7474) and can't find a setting to turn on header tag (h2, h3, etc.) buttons. Anyone know how to get them? Nancy

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Re: [support] Improving performance
by Alison 06 Jan '14

06 Jan '14

I installed the APC opcode caching and Memcache, and then on suggestions here tweaked the MySQL configuration. Overall massive improvement. These were my initial my.conf settings: Have tweaked them again since using a performance tool max_connections = 150 max_user_connections = 150 key_buffer = 96M myisam_sort_buffer_size = 128M join_buffer_size = 8M read_buffer_size = 8M sort_buffer_size = 12M table_cache = 1024 thread_cache_size = 286 table_definition_cache = 1000 interactive_timeout = 25 wait_timeout = 1800 connect_timeout = 10 max_allowed_packet = 4M max_connect_errors = 2000 query_cache_limit = 4M query_cache_size = 64M query_cache_type = 1 tmp_table_size = 64M innodb-flush-log-at-trx-commit = 2 Alison At 02:59 AM 07-01-14, you wrote: >On Fri, Jan 3, 2014 at 6:30 AM, Jamie Holly <hovercrafter(a)earthlink.net> wrote: >> The high performance group on drupal.org is really good: >> >> https://groups.drupal.org/high-performance > >I'd post there, but its spam filter doesn't like me. > >> The most common recipe is APC for opcode caching, memcache for object >> caching and Drupal's database to cache the form table. > >The Drupal 6 site I'm rescuing (and I've never used Drupal before, what >a way to get started!) was failing before I came on the scene, and >had response times like this after each of my tweaks (measured >with ab -n 20 -c 1 repeated three times right on the same machine >as the web server, and page caching disabled): > >fix median response time for logged in session after fixing problem >MaxClients=5 3300ms >simple APC 3000ms >mysql QC 2300ms > >so I heartily recommend turning on APC and MySQL query caching >based on my five minutes of experience with them. > >Performance for anonymous users isn't too bad, thanks to 'moderate >page caching'. >I'd like to try block cache but it can't be enabled, presumably >because Content Access is used. >I'd never heard of views cache or panels cache, thanks. > >I'm trying authcache now, but it doesn't seem to be helping; a >tutorial there would >be helpful, but I haven't found a good one yet. Any suggestions? >- Dan >-- >[ Drupal support list | http://lists.drupal.org/ ]

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Improving performance
by Alison 06 Jan '14

06 Jan '14

Hi Guys and Girls, can anyone recommend a good general discussion site or place where I can read about Drupal caching. Currently running Memcache and APC - the PHP accelerator, but not sure whether there would be anything to gain by implementing Drupals caching as well. Wouldn't mind finding some way of measuring the effects of the various performance enhancements. Are there any downsides to Memcache and APC? Hugs Alison

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Re: [support] Improving performance
by Alison 06 Jan '14

06 Jan '14

Hi Jamie, Phil, thanks for the info Jamie, much appreciated. As to sharing Phil, happy to do so. A little bit about my setup. I am retired and run a Centos 6.5, Apache, MySQL webserver in my lounge room. The server is home built - Gigabyte mobo, Intel processor, Kingston RAM, etc. I have a second similar server as a backup and development machine. I get 1.5Mb upload speed which is adequate to support half a dozen low traffic Drupal based sites. When I say low traffic, we are looking at 30-50 hits a day for each site The sites tend to be more personal interest sites rather than commercial ie. personal Blogs etc. The hits tend to be clustered based on chronology and demographic. Typically might get 20-30 hits over a couple of hours on a site and then nothing for 20 hours. During the quiet period had problems with Drupal cache's timing out, so first hit was then incredibly slow. I installed memcache via Drupal.org and memcache status using their instructions. This seemed to help, but still getting very slow first responses. I then did following: [root@webserver ~] yum install php-pear php-devel httpd-devel pcre-devel gcc make [root@webserver ~] pecl install apc [root@webserver ~] service httpd restart This being suggested by a google search. The pecl install seems to have included an initial setup as many questions were asked. As I have massive amounts of RAM available, I increased all resources in /etc/php.d/apc.ini apc.shm_size = 128M apc.num_files = 4096 apc.user-entries = 4096 apc.ttl - 21600 apc.user_ttl - 21600 apc.gc_ttl = 14400 apc.max_file_size = 5M. Then did a [root@webserver ~] service httpd restart. There is a really neat tool to see what's happening. Copy apc.php from docs directory to site root, and the run example.com/apc.php. Now I need to wait a few days to see what happens. Alison PS. Latest site just built is at http://www.trans-aspie.com At 01:57 AM 04-01-14, you wrote: >Hi Alison, >Please share what you find. I have been intending to look into this >myself. >I'm concerned about the initial page load time on my site. It seems pretty >slow. >Regards, >Phil > > > >From: Jamie Holly <hovercrafter(a)earthlink.net> >To: support(a)drupal.org, >Date: 01/03/2014 09:31 AM >Subject: Re: [support] Improving performance >Sent by: support-bounces(a)drupal.org > > > >The high performance group on drupal.org is really good: > >https://groups.drupal.org/high-performance > >The most common recipe is APC for opcode caching, memcache for object >caching and Drupal's database to cache the form table. > >APC also offers object/user caching, but you do have to spend sometime >getting it tuned right so the memory does fragment. In one high >performance site I manage I use the same recipe as above, but I use APC >to handle page caching. > >Of course all this varies greatly by site. Some sites are mostly >anonymous users, meaning page caching is the key, while others have a >heavy logged-in user base, so object caching becomes the big factor. > >Also depending on how the site is built, there's other cache modules out >there that really help, like views cache, authcache and panels cache. > >Jamie Holly >http://hollyit.net > >On 1/3/2014 5:08 AM, Alison wrote: >> Hi Guys and Girls, >> >> can anyone recommend a good general discussion site or place where I can >read about Drupal caching. Currently running Memcache and APC - the PHP >accelerator, but not sure whether there would be anything to gain by >implementing Drupals caching as well. Wouldn't mind finding some way of >measuring the effects of the various performance enhancements. Are there >any downsides to Memcache and APC? >> >> Hugs >> >> Alison >> > >-- >[ Drupal support list | http://lists.drupal.org/ ] > > >-- >[ Drupal support list | http://lists.drupal.org/ ]

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Re: [support] support Digest, Vol 133, Issue 8 > Disappearing user login
by Chris McAndrew 05 Jan '14

05 Jan '14

Roger, You can also try using /?q=user as that sometimes will work. If not, you definitely need the error logs to assist. It's usually something simple with the settings that got messed up. If you use backup and migrate you can restore the db if you can get into phpmyadmin. If you have no backups, in your settings.php set "allowFreeAccess" to true. It's commented out so uncomment, set to true and that should let you in. Don't forget to set back to false. The other thing I've done is delete the salt hash but don't close the settings.php and if you get in, you can revert and save again. The AllowFreeAccess should work though. Hopefully that helps. Good luck. Chris McAndrew csmcreative, llc. http://csmcreative.com On Sat, Jan 4, 2014 at 6:21 PM, <support-request(a)drupal.org> wrote: > Send support mailing list submissions to > support(a)drupal.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://lists.drupal.org/mailman/listinfo/support > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > support-request(a)drupal.org > > You can reach the person managing the list at > support-owner(a)drupal.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of support digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: Improving performance (Gregg Marshall) > 2. Disappearing user login (Roger) > 3. Disappearing user login (Don) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Sat, 4 Jan 2014 14:37:38 -0700 > From: "Gregg Marshall" <mimlist(a)repconnection.com> > Subject: Re: [support] Improving performance > To: <support(a)drupal.org> > Message-ID: <01b801cf0995$30fcba80$92f62f80$(a)repconnection.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > I learned a whole lot from the excellent book High Performance Drupal that > just came out this fall. An excellent resource. > > Gregg Marshall > > -----Original Message----- > From: support-bounces(a)drupal.org [mailto:support-bounces@drupal.org] On > Behalf Of Alison > Sent: Saturday, January 04, 2014 2:42 AM > To: support(a)drupal.org > Subject: Re: [support] Improving performance > > > Think the problem is now resolved to my satisfaction. Thanks. > > I have previously used Memcache successfully, and now with APC opcode > caching and a bit of MySQL tuning, all looks good. > > Alison > > > > At 07:50 PM 04-01-14, you wrote: > >Dear Alison, Have you considered using varnish? Best wishes, Sh??rab. -- [ > Drupal support list | http://lists.drupal.org/ ] > > -- > [ Drupal support list | http://lists.drupal.org/ ] > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Sun, 05 Jan 2014 09:54:43 +1100 > From: Roger <arelem(a)bigpond.com> > Subject: [support] Disappearing user login > To: support(a)drupal.org > Message-ID: <52C89133.6060800(a)bigpond.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > > We have a most peculiar situation. > While developing a theme in zen starterkit and following tuts and > videos, etc the user login ceased to function. > Cannot log in even with localhost/mydrupal/user which is how I normally > login. All we get is a blank screen. > Google suggested some overriding code to go into the page.tpl.php, which > allowed login but returns the new theme screen but no admin even if we > enter localhost/mydrupal/admin in the url. > /user is core functionality, file template and css are all available, we > have not changed any core files. > > I used drush to make garland the default theme and tried to drush > disable the zen theme but both fail. drush returns an error request > -drush clear-cache drush which in turn returns the same error. > > I did drush up to install drupal 7.25 and update modules but it did not > help. > Cannot find anything we have done in the dev theme which may relate to > /user login or admin. > > most perplexing. > How would we solve the lack of admin and why would login cease to function? > > Help much appreciated > Roger > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Sat, 04 Jan 2014 18:14:14 -0500 > From: Don <donald(a)fane.com> > Subject: [support] Disappearing user login > To: Roger <arelem(a)bigpond.com>, support(a)drupal.org > Message-ID: <52C895C6.9020301(a)fane.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > Hi Roger, > The blank screen means you're getting a php error but you have > display_error set off in php.ini or in the boot path. > You may have an error in your login path, your session table may be > corrupted, you might be running out of memory on your server, or the > server may be having trouble setting a session cookie on your browser. > These are common problems. > > Try adding > error_reporting(E_ALL); > ini_set('display_errors', TRUE); > ini_set('display_startup_errors', TRUE); > > after the boot code in index.php > Also check your apache logs watchdog table to see if you're getting errors. > -- > > -- > -Don Pickerel- > Fane Software > >

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Disappearing user login
by Roger 05 Jan '14

05 Jan '14

We have a most peculiar situation. While developing a theme in zen starterkit and following tuts and videos, etc the user login ceased to function. Cannot log in even with localhost/mydrupal/user which is how I normally login. All we get is a blank screen. Google suggested some overriding code to go into the page.tpl.php, which allowed login but returns the new theme screen but no admin even if we enter localhost/mydrupal/admin in the url. /user is core functionality, file template and css are all available, we have not changed any core files. I used drush to make garland the default theme and tried to drush disable the zen theme but both fail. drush returns an error request -drush clear-cache drush which in turn returns the same error. I did drush up to install drupal 7.25 and update modules but it did not help. Cannot find anything we have done in the dev theme which may relate to /user login or admin. most perplexing. How would we solve the lack of admin and why would login cease to function? Help much appreciated Roger

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Disappearing user login
by Don 04 Jan '14

04 Jan '14

Hi Roger, The blank screen means you're getting a php error but you have display_error set off in php.ini or in the boot path. You may have an error in your login path, your session table may be corrupted, you might be running out of memory on your server, or the server may be having trouble setting a session cookie on your browser. These are common problems. Try adding error_reporting(E_ALL); ini_set('display_errors', TRUE); ini_set('display_startup_errors', TRUE); after the boot code in index.php Also check your apache logs watchdog table to see if you're getting errors. -- -- -Don Pickerel- Fane Software

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