25 Oct 2015
This made me tensed, suddenly the site went down and i was shocked. Tried to do everything then finally found this this discursion in the drupal site. Problem was with database disconnected. So restarted the service and everything started working.
26 Oct 2015
Wanted to redirect to same page after login and got help from this page. and worked perfect !
It is always essentials to get all the basics of the server admin if you are going to host a website by your own. Great !! Lets start with the very basics.
What i am going to use as a host service is digital ocean which will provide you VPS in a cloud style that is pay whatever you use. But after i create my cloud instance how can i access the remote server ? Yeah SSH (Secure shell) !!
This video is a very quick introduction to what is SSH ?
This one shows how to setup a ssh server
Now lets go in the digital ocean way itself, I have found many articles in the digital ocean to how to manage the server.
After creating a droplet in the digital ocean we need to connect to that droplet via SSH, this article tell you how to do that.
Now we want to see how the server has to configure for the SSH, You can check out this wonderful tutorial for getting an overview of what is happening.
But this video is simple and elegant, it shows that how to create a public-private keys and how to connect to your remote server.Awesome !!
And finally we need to make the site online, here is the details for initial setup to be followed in digital ocean.
GUI to manage the server
After few searches in the internet came to know about webadmin one of the GUI based application for managing the server. So that it will give easy access to each and everything and we need not do all the file edit from the server.Here is the tutorial tells you how you will do it.
Oh You have not done yet !! want to add a domain name to the droplet that we have created ? So simple in digital ocean - Refer this tutorial to do that
FIle permissions
You might come across the permission problems in the system. Here is the stack answer deals with that in detail
Want to use custom view for node/add/form for authenticated users.
After a bit of research landed on this link and worked like a charm
Sept 29 2015
Remove the messages after few seconds in my site
A simple javascript trick will do it for you - here
Use different page layouts for different urls
After a few searches and a hour of trying out various option landed in here
Oct 12 2015
Stumbled upon the problem with migration of my site. I have taken the sql dumb and tried to load it into the new server. but i had some problem with cache, it was taking the older site path and i posted a question in the stackoverflow for drupal and got the answer that i have to change the values in registry and registry_table tables. You can find the question here .
Oct 16 2015
Faced a very annoying problem with ajax comments. It was showing "A parsing or network error has occurred." when i was trying to click on any of the poll actions. Checked this answer in drupal.org and started checking the developer console in the chrome and came to know about the php error "E_CORE_WARNING Error in file Unknown at line 0: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library '/usr/lib/php5/20121212/msql.so' - /usr/lib/php5/20121212/msql.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory drupal"
Checked this answer in stack overflow after that and commented the extesnion in the php.ini file in the apache2.
Oct 19 2015
I was in the last phase of migrating my application and i have came across that the update script is not running properly and it is stopping in between the "pending updates" and the updates were not running. After a day i have came across the this answer from the stack exchange. I thought of trying this out by changing the corresponding updates in the database manually. after that everything worked perfectly. Great start for the day.
Here is a wonderful video tutorial from scott from level of tuts - See here
But may be sometime you need to change the size of the file that can be uploaded to the website and that you can change by tweaking the php.ini file. The detailed steps to follow is here
If you want to change file upload size then go for this
want to escape from white screen of death ?? check out this
Migrating common problem, worth reading. Awesome guidelines, Must read - This one
