WSF2008

Mass Contact module sends to site "To" but not to BCC recipients

Key words and phrases: 
mass contact module won't bcc drupal blind carbon copy fails
Description & Info: 

Solution: Updating to the latest nightly dev release of the module, from the 2007 November Beta, fixed it.

http://drupal.org/project/mass_contact

Back to the problem...

Mass contact module says:

# cid = "2"

by Benjamin Melançon
Posted on Thu, 2008-02-07 22:59
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Upgrade Drupal a version with an automatic patch

Key words and phrases: 
Drupal update to new version security release bugfix patches appy with a script automatic drupal version upgrade patch
Description & Info: 

http://2bits.com/articles/upgrading-drupal-5-2-installations-to-5-3-secu...

Agaric has modified version the shell command version (listed by Khalid right above the comments) to be a script that can patch Drupal regardless of the name of its current directory..

Agaric's version is attached.

by Benjamin Melançon
Posted on Mon, 2008-01-28 15:42
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Validation error on search form, contact site admin. But I am the site admin!

Key words and phrases: 
Boost doesn't work with search! boost search drupal boost.module search breaks validation exclude path from boost caching drupal boost exclude page validation error on search logged in users tell drupal do not set token for search Drupal form API token
Description & Info: 

Search causes validation errors: how to disable caching for certain pages?

Not Boost!

Using search pages causes a validation error only when logged in.

Installing Munin, the site monitor named after a Norse god's crow

Key words and phrases: 
site monitoring on Debian or Ubuntu with Munin server performance measuring
Description & Info: 

sudo aptitude install munin-node

sudo aptitude install munin 

sudo vi /etc/munin/munin.conf

# a simple host tree
[wsf.grassrootsconnection.org]
address 127.0.0.1
use_node_name yes

Skipping this for now -- and I think this assumes both munin and munin-node on one server:

Bringing a stressed Drupal site back to its feet

Key words and phrases: 
WSF2008 on life support editing httpd.conf recommended httpd.conf file for Drupal performance
Description & Info: 

Before and after restart:

0 stedile:~# free
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 1343636 1309280 34356 0 1856 29692
-/+ buffers/cache: 1277732 65904
Swap: 524280 513244 11036
0 stedile:~# free
total used free shared buffers cached

by Benjamin Melançon
Posted on Sun, 2008-01-20 18:14
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How to configure and enable blocks in Drupal

Description & Info: 

Create some blocks first, the add block link at the top of the admin/build/block page

these blocks would be in different languages

then create a multilingual block, which will let you slot these blocks in. Again, I'm fairly certain you want something for each block even if you don't have a translation-- put another translation in.

from here on the steps are the same for any block

by Benjamin Melançon
Posted on Sat, 2008-01-19 15:51
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Newsletter Signup Block for Registered and Anonymous Users

Key words and phrases: 
CiviCRM Drupal signup form show civicrm form in block CiviCRM newsletter signup logged in duplicate civicrm signup e-mail admin CiviCRM Drupal signup form Simplenews & CiviCRM simplenews CiviCRM CiviMail signup block signup block form e-mail (see other post) show civicrm form in block e-mail signup logged in or logged out Drupal
Description & Info: 

nope-- this is for nodes, as an event node
http://drupal.org/project/signup

People who also want Simplenews to CiviCRM integration

Simplenews and CiviCRM
Module development · Drupal 4.7.x
ravijo - http://drupal.org/user/49196
November 16, 2006
http://drupal.org/node/98061

CiviCRM integration
http://drupal.org/node/92308
Latest post: #6

For now, we're using Simplenews with Agaric's addition of the Newsletter block module.

http://drupal.org/project/issues/26416

And a few more enhancements -- a subscription hook! -- in the works.

by Benjamin Melançon
Posted on Fri, 2008-01-11 13:12
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Set the return path for e-mail sent by a web server

Key words and phrases: 
return path for e-mail sent by webserver web server set from address email debian web server set from address email debian www-data sends mail e-mail fix
Description & Info: 

#
#ServerAdmin webmaster@host.some_domain.com

this is set for us, but apache process (Linux user www-data) still is sending e-mail as www-data@domain.name

nada:
Won't send email
http://drupal.org/node/103092

help with drupal sending mail
http://drupal.org/node/11570

I think I've identified our problem:

php mail() set from address

by Benjamin Melançon
Posted on Thu, 2008-01-10 12:30
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Debian server not sending mail to recipients that share its domain name

Key words and phrases: 
debian send local e-mail pass-through server e-mail to handle elsewhere tell Debian postfix not to use domain as local users
Description & Info: 

In Agaric's case for this server, mail for the domain was in fact being handled elsewhere. The problem was the server thought it should do it, so it caught all the mail with its domain name and squashed it, saying "there's no user by this name."

Remove your domain from the mydestination string in Postfix's main.cf.

by Benjamin Melançon
Posted on Thu, 2008-01-10 12:07
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Taking Donations With Ubercart and PayPal Express

Key words and phrases: 
ubercart donate button in page ubercart paypal express
Description & Info: 

First, install ubercart. With Drush:

sudo php drush/drush.php pm -l http://agaricdesign.com/ install ubercart

Enable all Ubercart core required modules (in alpha 9 there is a bug which only allows you to check three of the required dcore Ubercart modules, but then Drupal will give you the option to enable the fourth).