DevOps  Software Development 

Drupal

August 2, 2022


Table of Contents


  1. Securing file permissions and ownership

  2. Login blocked after 5 failed login attempts

  3. Drupal error messages appear on admin/config/search/path/patterns

  4. Drupal Status Report shows that the PHP extensions are disabled

  5. Drupal Status Report shows Tokens Problems detected

  6. Drupal Status Report shows Database 4 byte UTF-8 support is not enabled

  7. The following module is missing from the file system..

  8. Unable to login to Drupal Admin

  9. Unable to send POST variables

  10. PDOException: SQLSTATE[22007]: Invalid datetime format: 1292 Incorrect datetime value

  11. autodiscover/autodiscover.xml

  12. Knowing what version of Drupal runs on a website?

  13. {{ HOST_NAME }} redirected you too many times

  14. Updating project captcha failed. Destination directory /usr/local/www/apache24/data/sites/all/modules/captcha already exists

  15. Homepage has no CSS

  16. Drupal Updates Procedure


    1. Requirements Gathering

    2. Design

    3. Development


      1. 1.            On macos

      2. 2.           On {{ HOST_NAME }}

    4. Testing


      1. 1.            Drush

      2. 2.           .htaccess

      3. 3.           update.php

      4. 4.           cron.php

      5. 5.           Testing with Simpletest

      6. 6.           Password Resets as Admin

      7. 7.           Password Resets as User

      8. 8.          Status Report

      9. 9.           jQuery

      10. 10.      Drupal 3rd party libraries

      11. 11.        Theme: AdaptiveTheme

      12. 12.      Module: SSO/SAML Authentication

      13. 13.      Module: Simpletest

      14. 14.      Module: Security Review

      15. 15.       Module: Site Audit

      16. 16.      Module: Unused modules

      17. 17.       Module: Hacked

      18. 18.      Module: MD5 Check

      19. 19.      Module: Security Kit

      20. 20.     Module: Apache Solr

      21. 21.      Module: Node Export

      22. 22.     Module: Node Revision Delete

      23. 23.     Module: Database Optimizations

      24. 24.     Module: Search and Replace

      25. 25.     Module: Google Captcha

      26. 26.     Module: CKEditor

      27. 27.      Module: XML Sitemap

      28. 28.     Create new content

      29. 29.     ROM Event Registrations

      30. 30.     Form Submissions

      31. 31.      New Modules

      32. 32.     Rewrites

      33. 33.     Additional Findings

    5. Deployment


      1. 1.            On macos

      2. 2.           On Bitbucket

      3. 3.           On {{ HOST_NAME }}

      4. 4.           Notify ITS manager

    6. Maintenance

  17. User warning: The following module is missing from the file system

  18. Web forms are getting a lot of spam

  19. Updating Ticket Membership Levels on Drupal DB

  20. Drupal Syslog is not working

  21. Error – mPDF requires mb_string functions

  22. WEB-277 – Drupal views module

  23. HTTP request status – Fails

  24. The requested URL node was not found on this server

  25. Unable to login to Drupal on MacOS

  26. Setting up Drupal 7 with Apache Solr 6.6


    1. Search API Solr search

    2. Setting up Solr


      1. Using a hosted solution

      2. Installing Solr manually

      3. Installing Solr with Ansible

    3. Installing Solr 6.x


      1. Basic setup

      2. Running Solr

      3. Config files

    4. Troubleshooting


      1. Making Solr start automatically

      2. Warnings and notes

    5. Configuring the Search API server


      1. HTTP protocol, Solr host, Solr port, Solr path

      2. Basic HTTP authentication

      3. Advanced » Return an excerpt for all results

      4. Advanced » Retrieve result data from Solr

      5. Advanced » Highlight retrieved data

      6. Advanced » HTTP method

      7. Advanced » Autocomplete

    6. Troubleshooting 25.1

    7. Special server features and pitfalls


      1. Pecularities / Specifics

      2. Solr’s commit behavior

      3. Problems with maxWarmingSearchers

      4. Multiple sites with a single Solr server

      5. Non-English and multilingual sites

      6. Supported server features

      7. Hidden variables

      8. Keeping Solr data for dev servers separate

      9. Customizing your Solr server

    8. Troubleshooting 25.2

  27. Setting up Drupal 7 with Elasticsearch

  28. An AJAX HTTP error occurred. HTTP Result Code: 500

  29. Staff mistakenly deleted nodes and files

  30. Restoring from backup deleted nodes

  31. Awesome Module: Administration Views

  32. Awesome Module: Hacked

  33. Awesome Module: LDAP

  34. Error. Unresolved Dependencies

  35. PDOException: SQLSTATE[HY000] [2002] Permission denied in lock_may_be_available() (line 167 of /var/www/html/includes/lock.inc)

  36. File system: The directory sites/default/files is not writable

  37. File system: The directory sites/default/files is not writable

  38. Roles – Drupal user unable to view any unpublished content

  39. Awesome Module: Unused Modules


    1. Unused Projects


      1. Fully Disabled

      2. Also Enabled

    2. Unused Modules


      1. Fully Disabled

      2. Also Enabled

  40. phpmailerException: SMTP Error: Could not connect to SMTP host. in PHPMailer->SmtpConnect()

  41. Database 4 byte UTF-8 support – Enabled, but database tables need conversion

  42. Awesome Module: Administration Menu

  43. Drush unable to run commands

  44. Setting up Drupal Azure AD Authentication

  45. Drupal Tokens

  46. Blocked user victord due to security configuration.

  47. Solr search results shows no images

  48. Drupal 8 initializing…

  49. Drupal Solr Search Server shows unpublished events

  50. Drupal Optimization


    1. Cron jobs.

    2. Disable unused and non-essential modules

    3. Disable the Statistics Module

    4. Disable the Update Manager Module in Prod

    5. Core Performance Settings

    6. Views Caching

    7. System Administration

  51. WEB-1644 – Drupal Views – Duplicated Content

  52. WEB-1751, WEB1755 – Image Captcha

  53. Security review

  54. User Management


    1. Creating Users

    2. Deleting Users

  55. File Management

  56. Awesome Module: Search and Replace Scanner

  57. Drupal Environments

  58. PHP Fatal error:  Class ‘SelectQueryExtender’ not found in /var/www/html/public/includes/pager.inc on line 15

  59. MacOS Apache is redirecting me to CentOS Apache

  60. Unable to install Drupal on MacOS

  61. Unable to restore Drupal on CentOS

  62. CKEditor

  63. Could not login with user ID 0

  64. ROM Scratch

  65. French translation not working

  66. Unable to restore Drupal on CentOS (2)

  67. SAML SSO Authentication not working

  68. Drupal Permissions

  69. CSS updates not working

  70. Webforms with AWS S3 Integration

  71. Upload progress not enabled

  72. SAML SSO module update


    1. Switching environments

    2. Uninstalling the module

    3. Installing the module

    4. Updating the module

    5. Verifying update

  73. WEB-2269 – Views caching outdated content

  74. SAML SSO module update (2)

  75. Error: Call to undefined function webform_replace_tokens()

  76. Awesome Module: MD5 Check

  77. Awesome Module: Site Audit

  78. Drupal Updates Issue

  79. Your browser doesn‘t support pasting with the toolbar button or context menu option


    1. On MacOS


      1. Chrome

      2. Firefox

      3. Safari

    2. On Windows


      1. Chrome

      2. Firefox

      3. Edge

  80. Sitemap.xml explained


    1. Problem:

    2. Solution:

    3. Problem 2:

    4. Solution 2:

  81. Roles – Drupal user unable to add Press Releases

  82. 504 Gateway Timeout

  83. Some files and directories in your install are writable by the server

  84. Drupal 3rd party libraries


    1. With Composer


      1. Updating Flexslider – Succeeded

      2. Updating MPDF – Succeeded

      3. Updating JPlayer – Succeeded

    2. Without Composer


      1. Updating Colorbox

      2. Updating Word and Character Counter

  85. SAML SSO module update (3)


    1. Problem:

    2. Solution (Not yet found):

    3. Problem 2:

    4. Solution 2 (Not yet found):

  86. Awesome Module: Advanced CSS/JS Aggregation

  87. Problematic Module: Transliteration

  88. ROM Drupal: Content not displaying properly

  89. Auto-login

  90. Clean URLs cannot be enabled

  91. Drupal Stats

  92. Drupal Explained

  93. Cannot modify header information

  94. Theme development

  95. Awesome Module: Devel


    1. Overview

  96. Awesome Module: Webform (>=4.0)

  97. Ajax calls are not working

  98. Find content search is not working

  99. Unable to login to Drupal (2)

  100. ROM Events Development (TO BE COMPLETED)


    1. Parent Events

    2. Child Events

  101. Password Resets

  102. User does not have Scheduling Options permissions

  103. User does not have Authoring information permissions

  104. User does not have ROM Magazine Article (Machine name: article) permissions

  105. Drush

  106. MacOS – Installing Drush (multiple versions)


    1. 1) Install Composer (Check MacOS – composer.docx)

    2. 2) Pick a Location

    3. 3) Install Drush 9

    4. 4) Install Drush 8

    5. 5) Install Drush 7 (No longer needed)

    6. 6) Install Drush 6 (No longer needed)

    7. 7) Install Drush 5 (No longer needed)

    8. 8) Alias The Directories

    9. 9) Test The Aliases

    10. 10) Soft Linking

    11. 11) Profit

    12. Create aliases

    13. That’s it. Happy Drushing…

  107. FreeBSD – Installing Drush (multiple versions)


    1. Uninstall existing Drush instances

    2. Install Composer

    3. Install Drush 9

    4. Install Drush 8

    5. Install Drush 7 (No longer needed)

    6. Install Drush 6 (No longer needed)

    7. Decide which drush version you need to run

  108. CentOS – Installing Drush (multiple versions)


    1. Install Composer

    2. Install Drush 9

    3. Install Drush 8

    4. Install Drush 8

    5. Next, decide which drush version you need to run

  109. Updating Drush


    1. On MacOS

    2. On CentOS

  110. A simple drush8 @ts8 status complained and gave away many errors such as these:

  111. Clearing Drupal cache seems to throw these unwanted errors.

  112. Composer is not working.

  113. Destination directory /usr/local/var/www/htdocs/romlx12/data/sites/all/modules/captcha already exists.

  114. Drush command terminated abnormally due to an unrecoverable error.

  115. Drush requires composer

  116. Updating software packages with composer

  117. File Permissions with drush

  118. Awesome module: Node Export

  119. Node Export – failed to open stream: No such file or directory node_export.drush.inc:243

  120. Node Export – failed to open stream: Permission denied node_export.drush.inc:243

  121. Drush update fails

  122. Invoking drush from a more functional Drupal environment to run this command

  123. Drush won’t update Drupal core,

  124. Drush won’t update Drupal core – pm-updatestatus failed

  125. URL redirects with Drush

  126. Awesome Module: Database Optimization with Drush


    1. Problem 1:

    2. Solution 1:

    3. Problem 2:

    4. Solution 2 (Not yet found):

  127. Awesome Module: Node Revision Delete

  128. Command XXX needs a higher bootstrap level to run

  129. Awesome Module: Paranoia

  130. [current-date:view_date]


    1. No Results

  131. Table scanner already exists

  132. Node Export – Integrity constraint violation

  133. Drush is not working

  134. No Drupal site found, only ‘drush’ cache was cleared.

  135. No Drupal site found, only ‘drush’ cache was cleared.

  136. LAMP stack got screwed by brew upgrade

  137. Uninstalling a Drupal core module

  138. Uninstalling a Drupal non-core module

  139. Command pm-info needs a higher bootstrap level to run

  140. Destination directory /usr/local/www/apache24/data/sites/all/modules/contrib/media already exists

  141. Unable to run commands

  142. Unable to unblock users

  143. Unable to generate Drupal Login link properly

  144. Unable to execute SQL queries with Drush

  145. PHP Fatal error:  Class ‘SelectQueryExtender’ not found in /var/www/html/public/includes/pager.inc on line 15

  146. dyld: Library not loaded

  147. Could not login with user ID 0

  148. Base table or view not found: 1146 Table ‘rom.watchdog’ doesn’t exist

  149. Drush command terminated abnormally due to an unrecoverable error

  150. PHP 8.0 – Drush is not working

  151. PHP 7.2 – Drush is not working

  152. Node Export – failed to open stream: Permission denied node_export.drush.inc:243

  153. Node Export – File field found on node, but file doesn’t exist on disk?


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Written By victord On August 2, 2022