These are some notes on Drupal installation and performance on Unix-like operating systems (using Ubuntu here). Drupal Installation Install MySQL and create the database and Drupal database user first. If you must use apt or yum to install Drupal, don’t try to install everything at once. If you can avoid it, don’t install Drupal from […]
I don’t use Zope and Plone anymore, but if you’ve played with Zope/Plone you know they are highly proprietary, fragile, missing a lot of desirable functionality, and overall pretty painful to manage. About the only thing I really ever liked about them was the relative ease of integrating Python libraries and code. Regardless, I sometimes […]
This page describes an OTRS migration from one Linux server to another. The background: I had an existing version 3.1.x installation of the OTRS Help Desk system that needed to be upgraded to the latest version (at the time, 3.2.9) and migrated from an Ubuntu 12.04 system to a CentOS 6.1 system. The goal was […]
An updated version of this article using OTRS 5 and Ubuntu 16.04 is available here. This article describes how to install the OTRS help desk system on an Ubuntu 12.04 server. OTRS is a popular open-source help desk system written in Perl; it was at version 3.2.9 as of this writing. The instructions here should […]
Here are some Linux command line tricks I use on occasion for search and replace. This presumes the use of GNU utilities, so commands and results will vary on different platforms. Some cheat sheets: Sed | Awk | Perl | Bash See also the sed/awk and grep pages. Replace A with B in all files […]
PHP Composer provides an easier way to install Drush than the method below. Instructions for this can be found in the Drush 8/Drupal 8 version of this article, available here. After installing Composer, run the command php composer.phar global require drush/drush:7.* to install Drush 7. Procedures for installing Drush on Linux-like machines. The easiest method […]
Note: The below instructions are for Varnish 3 on Ubuntu 12. If you want to run Drupal with Varnish 4 on Ubuntu 16, updated instructions are here. So, you want to set up Nginx and Drupal with all the bells and whistles on Ubuntu Server 12.04. You want caching for both PHP and Varnish and […]
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS has been out for a while now, and it offers some nice enhancements over 12.04 in its default repos: Apache 2.4, PHP 5.5, and MySQL 5.5.3x. Starting from a bare server image, here’s how to get an Ubuntu 14 web server up and running for PHP. Install the Web Server Note: If […]
Update April 2018: I’d suggest using Let’s Encrypt for this instead. I do this just infrequently enough to forget the details. So here’s the process for purchasing and installing a SSL certificate for https on your Linux/Apache web server (using Ubuntu 12.04 and Apache 2.2 here): Generate Local Key/CSR, Purchase SSL Certificate Generate your key […]
So you’re running an Ubuntu server in a virtual machine, and now you need to add 20 GB of disk space to root (/). There are quite a few ways to do this, and fortunately you’re running the Logical Volume Manager (LVM) in Ubuntu, so the process isn’t too bad. (This example uses Ubuntu Server […]