In this case the Google webmaster crawl reporter was indicating a large number of pages in a Drupal site as unreachable - 500 error. Users however could access the problem pages without difficulty or delay.
Drupal
Google webmaster reports page unreachable but users can browse page
Submitted by Jonathan Mitchell on Mon, 06/07/2010 - 20:29
Creating favicon ico files on OS X
The ICO image format is a Windows format for representing icons at various resolutions. It is also widely used to represent favicons. It is thus somewhat similar in intention to the OS X ICNS format. Indeed you can create and edit ICO files using the Icon Compose app that ships with Xcode. It lives in /Developer/Applications/Utilities/Icon Composer
Automatically log in authenticated Drupal user
In some cases it may be desirable to externally access authenticated user paths on our Drupal site. I use this approach to kick off various admin functions.
Duplicate a Drupal Installation
We want to duplicate an existing Drupal installation for testing purposes. In this case the duplicate will reside on the same Fedora 8 server.
Our original live domain is www.example.com.
Our duplicate domain will be dev.example.com.
Automatically extract zipped attachments received on postfix mail account
The desire here is to call a Drupal path when email is received on a specific email account. The email in question contains a zipped archive of images that we want to import into Drupal.
Submitted by Jonathan Mitchell on Fri, 03/26/2010 - 09:46
Drupal on mac OS X using XAMPP with virtual hosts.
The use of virtual hosts allows us to effectively develop using XAMPP in a way that is similar to final deployment. It also allows for multiple installs of Drupal and permits developing for multiple sites using a single Drupal installation.
In this case we are aiming to set up a development virtual host installation with a URL of www.mugginsoft.local
Make Drupal 6 View Filter Selection Match View Argument
The Issue here is that when filtering a Drupal 6 view using an argument the block filter selection does not match the argument.
Create a Drupal 6 View Block Based on Taxonomy Term
Your Drupal view can be expressed both as a page and as a block. You can also filter your views content according to a taxonomy term argument. And now you want to generate your block according to the presence of your taxonomy term in your URL (either within a menu path or view search block request generated URI).
Usage
Just call MyViewBlockFromURI() wherever you require it. Stick it in a block if required. Also very handy in the header of a view - you can tie the view header into the content using the taxonomy term extracted from the URI.
Code
Getting and Setting Cookies in drupal_http_request
A Drupal 6 http client request is constructed so:
$http_results = drupal_http_request($url, array(), 'GET', NULL, 3);
Some URLs, however, require that a cookie is passed to each request to ensure that a correct response is issued. First, however, the cookie must be retrieved from an initial request.
$http_results = drupal_http_request($url, array(), 'GET', NULL, 3);
$cookie = $http_results->headers['Set-Cookie'];
$headers = array('Cookie' => $cookie);
$cookie = $http_results->headers['Set-Cookie'];
$headers = array('Cookie' => $cookie);
Storing Drupal Hierarchy in Subversion
Often it may prove desirable to push an entire Drupal hierarchy into subversion. The example only provides for local file access.
On Fedora 8 subversion is already installed. To check if installation already present.
rpm -q subversion
Login as root and create subversion root dir and children.
[root~]# mkdir /svndir
[root~]# mkdir -p /svndir/repos
[root~]# mkdir /svndir/users
[root~]# mkdir /svndir/permissions
[root~]# chown -fhR webmaster.apache svndir
[root~]# mkdir -p /svndir/repos
[root~]# mkdir /svndir/users
[root~]# mkdir /svndir/permissions
[root~]# chown -fhR webmaster.apache svndir
Now create repository for our html dir.
