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This website is composed of information connected through taxonomy. It is simultaneously a proof-of-concept and a means to allow Agaric to share and store information both within the collective and the world as part of our open documentation philosophy.

Modules to Consider: Drupal 5

(Drupal 5 as of 2007 January 29)

(Drupal 5 as of 2007 January 29)

To Consider:
http://drupal.org/project/biblio
It closely follows the EndNote model: http://www.endnote.com/
* EndNote and bibTex import / export
* keyword filtering
* selectable output styles (original, CSE, APA and IEEE so far)
* admin selectable "base" URL (you can change "/biblio" to anything you want)
* full text entry field; you can now enter the full text of the publication (Text or HTML) and it will be displayed when the user views the biblio node.

See http://liiscience.org/biblio for a live example.

SSH on a nonstandard port

After trying a lot of stuff that didn't work, like ssh -2 username@example.com:6927 or #6927 and many possible and impossible permutation, and after some internet searching, Agaric Design cobbled together this for your benifit. For those of you on Windows, I think you can just type in the port number. For those of you on Linux or Unix-like systems, this may help. It is tested and approved on Mac OS X:

Edit or create a plain text config (no extension) file in the .ssh (invisible system) folder in you ~/Username/ directory.

After trying a lot of stuff that didn't work, like ssh -2 username@example.com:6927 or #6927 and many possible and impossible permutation, and after some internet searching, Agaric Design cobbled together this for your benifit. For those of you on Windows, I think you can just type in the port number. For those of you on Linux or Unix-like systems, this may help. It is tested and approved on Mac OS X:

Edit or create a plain text config (no extension) file in the .ssh (invisible system) folder in you ~/Username/ directory.

Initial Drupal configuration, following running CVS

So after running Agaric's site recipe generator...

had to do the permissions changing to run the install, these were the commands.

Once I know for sure if we want -rw-r--r-- or -rwxr-xr-x for settings.php I'll post to Agaric about it.

So after running Agaric's site recipe generator...

had to do the permissions changing to run the install, these were the commands.

Once I know for sure if we want -rw-r--r-- or -rwxr-xr-x for settings.php I'll post to Agaric about it.

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pre>
[benjamin@vps conf]$ cd /home/spaceshare/public_html/test/sites/default
[benjamin@vps default]$ ls -l total 7 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 Jan 29 18:16 CVS -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6023 Jan 13 21:05 settings.php

Adding an IP-based site to an Apache web server

sudo vi /etc/httpd/sites.d/example

This will create a new file called example if one doesn't already exist.

(You need an include sites.d/* in /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf)

i to edit, this is the model (Agaric hasn't tested the subdomain part quite like this, but for just one directory, even if the domain isn't even pointing at your site yet, the IP will work):

sudo vi /etc/httpd/sites.d/example

This will create a new file called example if one doesn't already exist.

(You need an include sites.d/* in /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf)

i to edit, this is the model (Agaric hasn't tested the subdomain part quite like this, but for just one directory, even if the domain isn't even pointing at your site yet, the IP will work):

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pre>
<VirtualHost 101.01.010.10:80>
ServerName www.example.coop
DocumentRoot /home/example/public_html/main
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
</VirtualHost>

How to give a user global FTP privileges (with vsftpd)

This guide applies to CentOS (a generic version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, or RHEL) and vsftpd.

There's actually not much reason to give a Linux user FTP access to your entire server; each user can access its own directory, which is fine for user mywebsite. But this can be useful for an admin to create a generic FTP user, with a different username and password from any users with sudo to root capabilities.

cd etc
sudo vi vsftpd/vsftpd.conf

In /etc/vsftpd/vsftpd.conf, uncomment these lines (press i to enter insert/edit mode):

This guide applies to CentOS (a generic version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, or RHEL) and vsftpd.

There's actually not much reason to give a Linux user FTP access to your entire server; each user can access its own directory, which is fine for user mywebsite. But this can be useful for an admin to create a generic FTP user, with a different username and password from any users with sudo to root capabilities.

cd etc
sudo vi vsftpd/vsftpd.conf

In /etc/vsftpd/vsftpd.conf, uncomment these lines (press i to enter insert/edit mode):

Quick Site Recipe Shell Command Generator

Update: This has of course been quite obsoleted by drush, which Agaric is building our own scripts around (we would like to build them into Drush as much as possible), and we should eventually note on our main drush post.

I hope to turn this into a module with a form, for now it's just a PHP page that can only be edited by an admin with PHP privileges. The code that creates this page is attached.

Update: This has of course been quite obsoleted by drush, which Agaric is building our own scripts around (we would like to build them into Drush as much as possible), and we should eventually note on our main drush post.

I hope to turn this into a module with a form, for now it's just a PHP page that can only be edited by an admin with PHP privileges. The code that creates this page is attached.

<?php
/* NOTE: need some way of dealing with Drupal contrib modules with 2.0 versions */

$nl = "\n"// line separator

$sudo = 0// 0 no sudo needed, 1 sudo needed
$drupal_version = "DRUPAL-5";
$target_directory = "test";
$contrib_modules_directory = "modules/contributed";
$contrib_themes_directory = "themes/contributed";

/* array of Drupal contributed modules
 * alphabetical except 'child' modules follow parent (esp. CCK, for instance "email" is a CCK field)
 */

$spaceshare_contrib_modules = array(actions, akismet, article, auto_nodetitle, autosave, bloginfo, bookmark_us, buddylist, casetracker, cck, email, text_regexp, captcha, comment_mover, comment_subject, contemplate, ed_classified, ed_readmore, favorite_nodes, fivestar, focus, globalredirect, gmap, gsitemap, image, imagecache, leech, links, location, logintoboggan, menu_trim, mimemail, nodefamily, nodeprofile, panels, pathauto, relativity, releasemonitor, spam, send, service_links, subscriptions, systeminfo, tagadelic, taxonomy_access, taxonomy_breadcrumb, taxonomy_theme, textimage, token, upload_preview, userlink, usernode, views, views_alpha_pager, views_bonus, votingapi, weather, webform, weight, workflow);

/* array of Drupal contributed themes */
$contrib_themes = array(aberdeen, amadou, bluebreeze, golden_hour, stylized_beauty, sinatra, sympal_theme, zen);

$contrib_modules = $spaceshare_contrib_modules;

print

"<pre>";
print
"This script was made with the following variables:" . $nl;
print
"Drupal Version: " . $drupal_version . $nl;
print
"Target Directory: " . $target_directory . $nl;
print
"Path to Contrib Directory: " . $contrib_directory . $nl;
print
"Contributed Modules:" . $nl;
print_r($contrib_modules);

$intro = "You should paste this output in your shell (e.g. Terminal, Putty) " . $nl .
 
"starting from the directory ABOVE your target directory.";
print
$intro . $nl;

$ssh = "";

// get Drupal itself
if ($sudo) $ssh .= "sudo ";
$ssh .= "cvs -d:pserver:anonymous:anonymous@cvs.drupal.org:/cvs/drupal checkout -d " . $target_directory . " -r " . $drupal_version . " drupal";

$ssh .=$nl;

$ssh .= "cd " . $target_directory;
$ssh .= $nl;

if (

$sudo) $ssh .= "sudo ";
$ssh .= "mkdir " . $contrib_modules_directory;
$ssh .= $nl;

foreach(

$contrib_modules as $module) {
  if (
$sudo) $ssh .= "sudo ";
 
$ssh .= "cvs checkout -d " . $contrib_modules_directory . "/" . $module . " -r " . $drupal_version . " contributions/modules/" . $module;
 
$ssh .= $nl;
}

if (

$sudo) $ssh .= "sudo ";
$ssh .= "mkdir " . $contrib_themes_directory;
$ssh .= $nl;

foreach(

$contrib_themes as $theme) {
  if (
$sudo) $ssh .= "sudo ";
 
$ssh .= "cvs checkout -d " . $contrib_themes_directory . "/" . $theme . " -r " . $drupal_version . " contributions/themes/" . $theme;
 
$ssh .= $nl;
}
print
$ssh;

print

"</pre>";
?>

Theme by Section

Thanks to Webchick

use subdomains
multi-site setup
using same databases
but hardcode theme and other variables as needed

(How about primary links, blocks, etc?)

Thanks to Webchick

use subdomains
multi-site setup
using same databases
but hardcode theme and other variables as needed

(How about primary links, blocks, etc?)

Printer-Friendly View and CCK

This page describes a way to make an end run around the printer-friendly module and just load a new stylesheet for making pages look good for printing:

Printer-Friendly View and CCK?
http://drupal.org/node/94098

But surely there is a righter, more Drupal way of doing this?

If we can find one, we'll post about it back to the issue queue also.. somewhere else

This page describes a way to make an end run around the printer-friendly module and just load a new stylesheet for making pages look good for printing:

Printer-Friendly View and CCK?
http://drupal.org/node/94098

But surely there is a righter, more Drupal way of doing this?

If we can find one, we'll post about it back to the issue queue also.. somewhere else

http://drupal.org/node/94098#comment-176891

Fixing Clean URLs on Some Drupal Installations

On some servers, the initial installation of Drupal will fail the clean URLs test.

Just giving the server an initial path, "/" in .htaccess solves this problem.

Keywords: .htaccess rule change Drupal clean URLs

On some servers, the initial installation of Drupal will fail the clean URLs test.

Just giving the server an initial path, "/" in .htaccess solves this problem.

Keywords: .htaccess rule change Drupal clean URLs

Fun with GNU-Linux Shell: Messaging Other Users

to send messages to another user simply type write username then you can type your message and ctrl+c sends it.

to find out which users are logged in type users

gnu linux message ssh user

In addition to write, there's a more interactive, Instant Messaging (IM) style of GNU-Linux communication: talk.

talk username

Note: it will not cause any dock icon to bounce or taskbar button to flash when someone responds to you!

to send messages to another user simply type write username then you can type your message and ctrl+c sends it.

to find out which users are logged in type users

gnu linux message ssh user

In addition to write, there's a more interactive, Instant Messaging (IM) style of GNU-Linux communication: talk.

talk username

Note: it will not cause any dock icon to bounce or taskbar button to flash when someone responds to you!