Questions tagged [drupal]

Drupal is an open-source, database-backed CMS written in PHP. It is maintained and supported by a worldwide community. Questions about installing and maintaining Drupal belong on Drupal.SE

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Server error with large posts

On a large drupal site, the database server is on a separate server connected directly to the web server. The web server uses apache and memcached. The problem is that whenever the post is a large, say larger than 10KB, the server does not return…
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High load average, low CPU and IO (Centos 5.7)

A Drupal 7 site with CiviCRM, after running smoothly for a year on a 1&1 VPS suddenly became unresponsive. Now pages eventually load, but can take more than a minute. Looking at resource use in Virtuozzo, the load average carries a warning, and has…
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What's the best way to run Drupal and Django sites behind the same Varnish server?

I have a high traffic website running with Drupal and Apache, five web servers behind a Varnish server load balancing. Let's say this site is example.com. I'm using five backends and a director like this in my default.vcl: director balancer…
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Nginx Subdirectory Drupal + other app

I have a drupal app and 2 other app written in php, i want use a rewrite uri for drupal and place drupal in virtual root / and the other by their names ... and use the server cache for the img of each app. ex : xxx.com or xxx.com/ -->…
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MySQL errors with Drupal and MediaTemple

I have been having intermitant issues between drupal 7.14 and MediaTemple. Specifically I am getting this error: PDOException: SQLSTATE[HY000]: General error: 1205 Lock wait timeout exceeded; try restarting transaction: SELECT…
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Serve empty 404 page with mod_rewrite

I have a Drupal website which contains the below default mod_rewrite rules RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !=/favicon.ico RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !=/server-status …
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Any particular vacuum policy to increase performance using Drupal with PostgreSQL?

I'm running Drupal 7 with PostgreSQL as a Q&A (with a lot of nodes inserts/updates and several contrib modules). Do you, dba admins, recommand any particular pgsql vacuum policy on particular default tables ?
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"Mom and Pop" shop looking for advise on hosting an e-commerce site

I am not very technical, and I don't know if this is the right place to post this question. Sorry in advance. Anyways, hiring someone to do the e-commerce site can be futile, so I tried to do it myself. I have been picking up some books and learned…
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MySQL config for drupal

I am running MySQL 5.0.75 on Ubuntu on a dual core machine with 8 gigs of ram. I am running a Drupal 5 and Drupal 6 site of the database. I am sure my MySQL config is not optimal but I am wondering if there is any low hanging fruit I can address.…
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PCI Compliance for average e-commerce website in the cloud

I am creating an "average" e-commerce website (using drupal and ubercart if that matters). I've read about pci compliance in the past, and that's why I'm wondering how I can see what applies to my situation. I'll probably be going with "rackspace…
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Rewrite rules for Drupal Boost with Lighttpd

I have been given the super task of preparing a web site to get hammered.... Or site is drupal based, I have found what could be my answer in the form of Boost. But I can't for the life of me find any information on the Lighttpd rewrite rules to…
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What is the best strategy for troubleshooting drupal crashes?

I have a drupal website with many modules (don't ask the number). For six months the website has been stable, but recently the servers began to seize. Generally MySQL reaches the maximum number of concurrent connections (1000) and the website…
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How can I install Drupal 7.0 to Linux Mint

I read the document INSTALL.txt and it says that I should run the install script, point your browser to the base URL of your website. What command should I type to console to run the script? And is the base URL of my website same as localhost as my…
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DRupal and mysql with a remote database

Trying to connect Drupal running from my localhost to a remote database but coming across issues. I am using the following string in my settings.php file: $db_url = 'mysqli://username:password@xx.xxx.xxx.xxx/database_name'; I am getting the…
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What should I know when setting up a load balanced cluster for a LAMP application?

I should say, "How do I set up a load balanced cluser". I am not a sysadmin of any merit.. apt-getted and yum installed my way to some stacks in the cloud but nothing fancy. Now I have a problem with a Drupal site that has gone beyond its…
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