Community Website

Community Website

The burngreave.net web site is based powered by Drupal and hosted in Burngreave.

Drupal is an open content management system.

This allows people to place comments on stories that are posted. You can also register with the site and use its facilities to upload files, images and post your own stories, (known as blogs).

Registered members can vote on stories, and if enough vote positively stories will be promoted to the front page.

Creating custom Drupal Themes

At the CIN Meeting recently there was a wish for some burngreave.net users to be able to create and develop their own themes or drupal. I've worked out how to do that .. and here is how it goes. in home folder create

mkdir ~/drupal/themes

copy an existing theme (to get a start)

cp -R /usr/local/htdocs/httpd/themes/aland ~/drupal/themes/mytheme_development

mv ~/drupal/themes/aland.theme ~/drupal/themes/mytheme_development

vim ~/drupal/themes/mytheme_development

and replace any instances of 'aland' with mytheme_development as root create a symlink from

ln -s /home/username/drupal/themes/mytheme_development /usr/local/htdocs/httpd/themes/mytheme_development

Now as a drupal admin log on and get the themes module and enable your new theme. Should now be able to modify the your theme and see its result on the global drupal site - without having to use root password or leave the cosy comfort of your home folder. If anybody would like to get on with this I can set it up for them just e-mail me.

File Store Module Broke Drupal .. Resolution

When administrating a node of type file .. it seems easy to break drupal .. The content from the file gets loaded into another of the node elements .. this seems to then cause apache the web server to fall over. After doing this twice now it seems to be the revision field that gets corrupted. so make sure the "Create new Revision" box is "Disabled" to prevent. The sql to fix it is

UPDATE node SET node.revisions=NULL WHERE node.nid=xxx;

where xxx is the Node id of the broken node.