schalit-way.net

See http://fob.po8.org for the new home of my blog.

This Schalit Way website is about good to go, though!

Debian decided to upgrade the schalit-way.net Drupal last night. Unfortunately, the upgrade process was borked, and this was compounded by my inability to remember the root mysql password (that it shouldn't have needed anyhow IMHO).

The final story is that after a bunch of Googling and digging around I got Drupal to quit complaining every five minutes about its database problem, by running some magic MySQL bits and then hacking around with the carefully-hidden Drupal update.php script. Some time shortly later, I got the logo and favicon for schalit-way.net to come back.

I should either take all of this down or do something with it. Bleah.

OK, I'm just getting done with my first Drupal experience. Have to say I found it pretty painful.

Hint #1: do *not* attempt to put an @ sign in your database password: it gets interpreted. Uggh.

Hint #2: do *not* believe any of the information about how to point Apache at Drupal. Do obvious things with /etc/apache/conf.d/drupal.conf and everything should just work.

Hint #3: the "right" way to put the house logo you see at the upper left on the page appears to be to edit the theme.php file, in this case chameleon.php. Just setting the site name does almost, but not quite the right thing.

In the not-Drupal's-fault category, XSVG editing under Linux appears to totally suck. I ended up producing that cool-looking house PNG from SVG with...emacs. Hooray.

It's bedtime. Enough blogging. I'll try to keep up here as I go. It'll give people some insight into how this place is managed.

...oops. Question: why is the date of this post in GMT???