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Drupal7 Extended Support
2020-06-03 · 1 min read · drupal drupal7 extended-support ·
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Acquia is one of those that would provide extended support beyond EOL of Nov 2021 https://support.acquia.com/hc/en-us/articles/360034121053-Drupal-7-x-Extended-Support

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Telling git To Use Specific Private Key
2020-05-29 · 1 min read · git public-key ·
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Sometimes, you need to use specific keys. To do it, use ssh config, something like below in ~/.ssh/config 1host github.com 2HostName github.com 3IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_rsa_github 4User git See details in https://superuser.com/questions/232373/how-to-tell-git-which-private-key-to-use

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Git with Latest Commit Log Only
2020-05-26 · 1 min read · git version-control depth save-space ·
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In some situations, you only need the latest commit log, saving space in the process. You have to do it as follows: 1git clone --depth=1 REPO

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Create Drupal Admin User via Drush
2020-05-24 · 1 min read · drupal drush user ·
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1## Generate drupal admin access. 2## 3drush user:create admin --mail="admin.NOREPLY@example.com" --password="admin" 4drush user:role:add "administrator" admin

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Finding Large Files Uncacheable in Acquia Varnish
2020-05-18 · 1 min read · drupal acquia varnish cache files large-files ·
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Acquia varnish cannot cache files >10MB as per https://docs.acquia.com/acquia-cloud/performance/varnish/files/ To find for those >10MB files, search from the sites/default/files: 1find ./ -type f -size +10M -exec du -sh '{}' \; -print|grep -v ^\./| sort -n

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MySQL/MariaDB with Credentials File
2020-05-12 · 1 min read · mysql mariadb authentication permission credentials credentials-file mysql-security ·
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Using a configuration file for mysql is a good practice as you don't immediately expose credentials. Below, you are going to mysql cli and immediately using the db named dbName. 1mysql --defaults-file=/path/to/credentials.ini dbName where credentials.ini has this format: 1[client] …

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Curl with Credentials File
2020-05-12 · 1 min read · curl authentication credentials credentials-file ·
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1curl --config /path/to/config-file <url_here> where config-file has this format: 1-u username:password

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Drupal Login Not Found
2020-05-01 · 1 min read · drupal login 404 ·
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When you login to drupal via https://example.com/user and it is not found, try to check for the following: Does it have .htaccess if in an apache web server? If in nginx, is the correct virtualhost rules in place? Does documentroot in apache have the needed directives to activate .htaccess? Answer that and you will …

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MariaDB root Account Ignoring Password
2020-04-29 · 1 min read · mariadb root ignored-password ·
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Observed this in Mariadb 10.x versions. Despite being able to change password, it is still ignoring the password. Non-root user not affected. Explanation per https://mariadb.com/kb/en/authentication-from-mariadb-104/ Using unix_socket means that if you are the system root user, you can login as root@locahost without a …

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Failed to open stream: DrupalTemporaryStreamWrapper::stream_open
2020-04-17 · 1 min read · drupal error settings tempfile private-file ·
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From CLI This error is shown: 1failed to open stream: "DrupalTemporaryStreamWrapper::stream_open" call failed file.inc:1983 Solution Seems to be an issue with the temp file. Check "drush st" and confirm if the temp file is still accessible. This gives some hints on how to set the "temp and …

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