Posted by kathc on February 10, 2010 at 2:32am
Start:
2010-03-01 05:30 - 07:30 America/Montreal Organizers:
Event type:
User group meeting
The format of having snacks, intros, then a discussion led by someone able to field some questions seems to work best for us.
Someone offered to talk about Multisite in December, but I can't remember who. Please discuss here, and step up.
Comments
not me
i don't think it was me that brought it up; but i could speak on multisite use if there is interest.
Peter Lindstrom
LiquidCMS - Content Solution Experts
Is multisite still on?
Hi all,
I am the one who requested a talk on multisite, since I think it would streamline my workflow a lot to use multisite...
Are we still on? Peter, do you still want to present?
See you then!
Sebastien.
oops...
for March 1st?
As it turns out i am trying to book a very long overdue holiday for that week.. but very very tentative at the moment.. so if i am here i certainly could at least get conversation started on a multi-site talk.
Should know more certain by mid-next week.. which is pushing it a bit i know.. sorry.
Peter Lindstrom
LiquidCMS - Content Solution Experts
Possibly....
March 1st isn't a great day for me either, but I'll check into it.
I could certainly give a talk on the use of multisites as we've been using them quite extensively now for years.
I'll double check to see if I can make it or not. I've missed way too many in a row so would like to come!
Mike
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OpenConcept | Twitter @mgifford | Drupal Security Guide
i will be in town
Turns out i will be in town Mar 1st
so i could talk, or start talk, or listen to Mike, or.. whatever...
Peter Lindstrom
LiquidCMS - Content Solution Experts
Sounds good!
I'm still tentative, so better if you start the talk. If I'm able to make it I'd be happy to contribute.
Mike
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OpenConcept | Twitter @mgifford | Drupal Security Guide
Location
Has the location been decided upon? If not, would it be possible to have it centrally located, or somewhere that's easy to get to by bus? That would certainly help us downtown folks! =)
We've been meeting at my
We've been meeting at my office (15 Auriga Drive) for the past few months. Downtown is fine for me also, if someone has a place available. We used to meet in pubs, but wanted to have more of a presentation area, which didn't work in the noisier atmosphere, without computers and stuff.
If it helps at all, I drive from the south end to Gatineau after the meeting, so I can drop people off just about anywhere if you can make it out there. Does anyone come from downtown to the South that could carpool on the way to?
Date & time?
Thanks - that's great. When is it happening? I've been out of the loop for a while, so I'm not sure if the recurring event I've got in my calendar is still correct - the second Monday of the month @ 1730h. Is this still right?
And is there a unit/buzzer number for that address?
Antares
I think Kath was planning on hosting at her place again near Hunt Club/Prince of Wales.
Peter Lindstrom
LiquidCMS - Content Solution Experts
Chiming in...
Hello, all. Just found this group (new in town) and considering attending one of your meetings (if it is open to all?). I'm more highly enthusiastic than experienced when it comes to Drupal :)-- I've been developing with it for almost a year and love it. Anyhoo, I also live downtown and have no car but will stay abreast of the plans and see what I can do!
Lara
Definitely open to everyone,
Definitely open to everyone, regardless of your experience level. We're pretty informal, but I've learned a ton of stuff over the past year.
Maybe one of our driving people can pick folks up at South Keys on the way here?
i'm at s. keys
i drive right past South Keys if anyone needs lift from there.
Peter Lindstrom
LiquidCMS - Content Solution Experts
Possible downtown location
Hi
For next meeting, you might try meeting at The Code Factory.
They have a nice even space that doesn't seem to be used on Mondays.
http://www.thecodefactory.ca/events/calendar.php
Rob
My notes on their space:
http://talksoftware.wordpress.com/2010/02/28/review-code-factory-meeting...
Rob
location
Is the meeting place 15 auriga, tonight? I would like to attend.
That is correct. We're at the
That is correct.
We're at the National Union, 15 Auriga Drive, starting at 5:30.
Plenty of parking, meeting is in the Boardroom. The building has two doors, main on the side (where I will be watching for people coming in) and the end/delivery entrance (which will be locked and have a sign on it saying to come round to the side).
I pick up food based on signups, so if people are planning on coming, please try to sign up before noon.
See you later,
Kath
Thanks
I enjoyed meeting a few of you the other day, and absorbed what i could about multisite. Thank you Peter for the information.
I have since moved 4 small existing sites into a multisite configuration, and they all seem to be working fine.
On the up side, during the process of putting all the modules from all 4 sites into the 'all' folder, I noticed that a few of my sites where missing important seo modules. Of course these modules where now listed on the modules pages for each site, so it was simple - gave them a checkmark, and they where ready to go.
The down side of the changes to multisite where the following:
for each site configuration I moved in its appropriate files folder, but files, and especially images didnt work. There was some tweaking required in the administration settings for it to recognize the new location of files. In the case of images, I had to actually change the hard paths in the database in order for it to find images and profile pictures.
since there is only one cron.php now for 4 sites, cron no longer works for me for the 4 configured sites. I have found some possible solutions on the drupal.org site but have still to implement that.
I have a 5th site that I'd also like to merge into the multisite configuration, but it uses the module 'virtual site', a different method to share 1 codebase for 5 nearly identical sites. I'll have to check whether moving it to multisite really makes sense. It also is multilingual and has alot of files, and images, so I'm a little nervous about moving it yet if much manual tweaking might be involved.
Overall, I learned alot from the discussion, and the process. Thanks for the info - appreciated.
And thanks again Kath for hosting the meeting.
David
quick replies
hey David, some quick answers to above post:
(i am assuming each of your 4 sites has its own db)
of course if you had existing files elsewhere and db files table was based on that; then yes, you will need to fix your db - i think the admin page for changing this even mentions that is likely to happen - but the sql to do the change is trivial. :) - not 100% sure; but depending on the change of your files path setting - it might even do the right thing without db change.. but doubt it
don't get your issue with cron, yes there is only 1 cron.php just like 1 node.module, system.module and every other file you use - cron.php is no different. You run cron as http://site1/cron.php , http://site2/cron.php , etc.. should work fine - if it isn't you have something set up wrong.
not sure what virutal site module is; but sounds like it would interfere with core multisite - but maybe not.
Peter Lindstrom
LiquidCMS - Content Solution Experts
Hi Peter Changing the files
Hi Peter
Changing the files location indeed did help, but not completely. Profile images seem to have their full path in the db, and i had a few of my own files stored which also had their full path. You are right that a few simple sql statements fixed them.
My hosting service uses cron and crontab. The execute path for my crontabs was something like this..
/ramdisk/bin/php5 -c"/home/helmarca/public_html/php.ini" /home1/helmarca/public_html/dance-ottawa/cron.php
Im not sure yet how to get this to run http://www.dance-ottawa/cron.php
My virtual sites, ie: dance-ottawa.com. dance-montreal.com, etc etc all use the same database but localize the data for each site. Listings are sorted according to each site's lat/lng (from overriden variables), gmaps use their own google gmap keys, and the site name & startup languages and some other variables (site email address) are different. I'll leave these sites as is for now.
Hi David, WRT... My hosting
Hi David,
WRT...
if you put a line like this in your crontab file it should do the trick, running Drupals cron.php at the top of every hour...
0 * * * * /usr/bin/wget -O - -q http://www.dance-ottawa/cron.phpRon.
wget
Thanks. It works now.