Linux Basement Presents: Chad’s Blog

So apparently AN hosting, my shared host, did something with my Apache settings, and all of a sudden, users could not submit any content on my site. Specifically, any time you hit the “submit” button, whether it was for creating a node, or changing user settings, I would get “page could not be displayed” After doing quite a bit of research, I found this article
http://drupal.org/node/110219

I put the following in my .htaccess file in my Drupal install, and all was well with the world.

I always wondered why even when you set your php.ini file settings to upload_max_filesize = 100M (or whatever) and post_max_size = 100M (or whatever) in Drupal, your max upload size would show up as 50M. I ran by this post today

http://drupal.org/node/97193

If you look at the bottom, you find the answer. Check out your includes/file.inc file and search for

Change it to

You could experiment with taking the line out, but being that it is doing a simple / 2 , if you change it to dividing by one /1 it will do nothing, and you don’t have to worry about a missing function.

Yay.

If you are having problems with cookies for multiple sites on the
same web server running drupal, make sure the following session
handlers are in the settings.php files for your site configuration.

I searched the drupal site thoroughly and found this thread, which lead me to my settings change.

http://drupal.org/node/56357

Here are the changes I made for each of my multiple drupal driven subdomains in settings.php

Where PHPSESSID is your unique cookie identifier (ex: MYUNIQUEID)
and .example.com = your fully qualified domain name, including any
subdomain prefix.

Submitted by Chad on Tue, 05/15/2007 - 8:20pm.

Ok,
so the digg module works in Drupal. Wow. I dugg my post on loading my
linux box up, and BAM! 10,000 reads in 24 hours. I’m going to toss it
up to posting about a hot subject at the right time. My server did
crash at first, but being that it is virtual, I upped the ram and added
a virtual processor and everything came back up smooth. I havn’t been
back down since, yet. So I survived my first diggfest, and I am
actually rather pleased with how Drupal performed. I am hoping that I
can do some tweaking with the throttle module and do some reasearch
over at drupal.org to
see if there are good suggestions about how to handle high traffic. I
will post soon on how I managed to throw this site together in about 2
hours using an existing drupal install and what modules I’m using.

In the meantime, digg on, I think.

So here we are, the first post on the new blog site. I am setting
this site up to post my views on just about anything without having to
offend people who visit my family site, cwolly.com. Here, I will post
anything that is on my mind, and if you don’t like it, don’t come here.
I’ve set the site up using drupal, (since have moved to Wordpress. Seems to be much more blog friendly)
as always. I plan to mod the theme and I’m using several nice modules
such as blog api and the digg module. Being that I’m a technical kind
of guy, I will go into more of the technical aspects of running these
sites in future posts, including the interesting fact that I am now
running linux full time both at work on my laptop, and on my home
desktop machine. Windows Vista officially disgusted me enough that I
decided to move over full time. While perusing the apt repository, I
noticed that you can install drupal 5.1 (the latest release) just by
using apt-get. WOW. That is great. I am currently running my server on
Debian Sarge and hope to upgrade to either Etch or, since I’ve had this
epiphany, I may move over to Ubuntu Server.

More on that to come. I hope anyone who happens by the site enjoys it.