Technical
Install Drush with fall back on Windows with Msys2 and WAMP
Submitted by Guy Doughty on Sun, 22/10/2023 - 8:22pm
This is a very cool command line tool for Drupal development. It allows us to turn modules on/off. Clear the cache. Run cron. Import configuration. Do Drupal database updates and many many more things. For a full list of commands see this: https://www.drush.org/12.x/commands/all/ For these...
Rapid Drupal development using Free Tools inc Visual Studio Code IDE
Submitted by Guy Doughty on Sat, 21/10/2023 - 2:31pmSo you want to throw yourself into Drupal but don't know how to set up a local development environment. Maybe you've been playing around for a while but know there must be a better tool and have never heard of this. This is for you. In my opinion, as a result of a week trying different ones...
Set up Drush globally for any/all users on Plesk with fallback
Submitted by admin on Sat, 21/10/2023 - 9:42amMy current version of Plesk Obsidian is 18.0.55. The OS is Ubuntu 20.04.6. Although many of these steps is generic, there are steps that are specific to Plesk. This tutorial is also for dedicated servers and will require root access. After all steps are complete, all users will have available Drush...
Empty Mailboxes on Plesk
Submitted by admin on Tue, 16/07/2019 - 10:05amEmpty older than 30 days (see https://plesk.uservoice.com/forums/184549-feature-suggestions/suggestion... ) find /var/qmail/mailnames/example.com/*/*/cur -type f -mtime +30 -exec rm {} \; Recalulate statistics/usage. (See here: https://support.plesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/115004510793-Plesk-usage-...
Remote Offsite Plesk Backups - Microsoft OneDrive & Google Drive
Submitted by Guy Doughty on Fri, 31/08/2018 - 12:05amPlesk now has backup extensions that allow us to connect Plesk to remote cloud storage. This is especially a must for website hosting companies . So if you've been running a separate backup server and using FTP backups, you're in for some real savings! Cloud storage solutions are...
How to resolve high CPU usage by mail server and large mail queue
Submitted by admin on Tue, 12/09/2017 - 12:55pmFirst of I am using Plesk Onyx 17.0.17 on Linux using the Postfix mailserver. So all my websites became dreadfully slow over the weekend. On signing into Plesk I could see 70% CPU usage. In the health monitor I could see that the Mailserver CPU usage in services was spiking since the websites...
Free 5GB offsite storage for backups; Drupal Websites
Submitted by Guy Doughty on Sun, 15/05/2016 - 7:33pmThis short video tutorials demonstrates how you can make use of free storage from NodeSquirrel.
Using the Backup and Migrate module we're able to create a backup and then store it over at NodeSquirrel. They offer 5GB for free and that is often more than enough for most website. There is also the option to increase the storage at a fee.
Having a procedure like this in place is essential for disaster recovery.
FTP stopped working on Plesk / Centos
Submitted by Guy Doughty on Wed, 16/09/2015 - 10:14amAfter an update to ProFTPd package, the server (Plesk Panels 11.5.3 on CentOS 6.5) stopped allowing incoming connections. A somewhat awkward situation for active developers, even more so when hosting client websites. After checking the Xinetd logs at /var/log/messages we saw the following messages...
How I got CKEditor to work with Geshi in Drupal 7
Submitted by Guy Doughty on Mon, 03/08/2015 - 8:42pmThis is a quick post. I've just spent hours getting Geshi to properly format special characters. Namely "<" and ">" being the most annoying. You see when you have ckeditor installed it encodes special characters into HTML. So you end up with "<" and...
