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Fri, 07/16/2010 - 12:32

Drupal for Beginners FAQ- Where did my content go?

A common question (I even thought of this when I first started using drupal after joomla)... Where did my content go after I created it?  So check out my video below:

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Fri, 07/16/2010 - 12:28

Drupal for Beginners - A Quick Overview of Drupal's Admin Structure

I'm about ready to roll out a new drupal distrobution aimed at the internet marketing world, but there is a problem.  Most of the IM community only know wordpress.  Wordpress is great... if I wanted just a blog, but I want more.  I want an internet marketing platform.

So, I need some educational videos, and here is the first one (don't forget fullscreen HD):

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Wed, 06/16/2010 - 15:38

Ubercart Affiliate Links Directly to Checkout with Product Already Added to Cart

I ran into a problem today that turned out to be really easy to fix.  I thought I would post it so I didnt forget :).

I want to link to a website, add a product to the cart, go to the checkout page, AND let this link be an affiliate link... all in one fail-swoop.

What you will need

I'm using Ubercart and Affiliate2 modules with Drupal 6.  I'm not going to go over setting up ubercart or affilate modules so you'll have to figure that out on your own. ...Read more...

Fri, 04/02/2010 - 16:40

Quick Notes after Recent VPS Install and Installing Webmin

I just re-did my VPS that is located at Burstnet, the same cheap VPS I talked about before.  This time around I ran into a couple of issues and decided to only use webmin instead of the full-out virtualmin.

Some quick install notes:

I needed to install mod_rewrite... I dont remember doing that before but I know I must have.  Its easy as running this: ...Read more...

Fri, 04/02/2010 - 11:49

Recent VPS Install Error - perl: warning: Setting locale failed

Today I was running through the motions of getting another VPS server setup with Ubuntu 8.0.4 86_x64 with Aegir and I ran into an error I've never had before: ...Read more...

Thu, 03/04/2010 - 20:57

Using Spacific Google Website Optimizer Variations along with its Matching PPC Ad

Boy thats a mouthfull of a title, does that make sense to anyone?

Let me explain, google website optimizer allows you to do A/B or multivariate testing on web pages.  It basically allows you to create several different variations of the same page, and it will treat it like just one page to site visitors. ...Read more...

Fri, 02/19/2010 - 17:57

Open Atrium Beta 4 Released - Some differences from Beta 3.2

Yesterday Open Atrium 1.0 Beta 4 was released. I figured it was coming because I noticed it had been rolled out on community.openatrium.com already. I decided to through it into Aegir and give'r a quick spin.

This is NOT going to be an exhaustive comparison, just a quick first look.  Also, Some stuff has already been talked about (like the theme) so I wont be talking about it.

Main Page

When you first login your taken to that main dashboard.  Here are some quick differences I noticed:

  • There is a nice pop-out menu in the upper left corner.
  • The user link is now on the left instead of the right and is no longer 'lightbox' styled when you click on it.
  • The "My Groups" is now located inside the user pop-out.
  • OA now used the new easily customizable dashboard.
  • There is a fancy how to video in the main content section when you start it up.

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Fri, 02/19/2010 - 16:45

Forget Your Old Drupal Sites User 1 Password? Change it in phpMyAdmin

I was moving a bunch of old old sites over to a new server the other day and thought i would make some changes to one of them... but realized I couldnt remember th User1 password.  Ha, shows you how well I keep that site up-to-date hu.  Now that its in Aegir, it will probably stay maintained better.

Here is the skinny on how I changed it...

Go into phpmyadmin and select your database:

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Tue, 02/16/2010 - 12:09

Two Common Aegir Errors I Get When Importing an Existing Site

There are 2 errors I get all the time when importing existing sites.  I verify my platform and when the site is trying to import, I get this error:

This one is pretty easy to figure out, I have the wrong database info in my settings.php file.  I probably had my DB password wrong or forgot to capitalize some letter. ...Read more...

Mon, 02/15/2010 - 15:55

Updating Aegir from 0.4 Alpha 3 to Alpha 5 Notes

I just updated my "production" aegir to alpha 5 from alpha 3 and I thought I would put up my notes from it.

I followed the instructions that were linked to from here: http://groups.drupal.org/node/47784#comment-135668

Before i started the whole process I did a an apt-get update and apt-get upgrade to make sure my ubuntu system what up-to-date.

At about line 35 I made these changes (bold are the changes):

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