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Moving Drupal sub-site from Dev to Production

2010-05-19T07:27:00.000-07:00

Hey All, I recently moved a drupal sub-site from dev machine to production. The base url for my site on the dev machine was something like http://example.com/sub1 and the base url on production had to be http://www.sample.net. These were the steps that I followed: 1. Create a sql dump of the drupal database by using the following command on a linux terminal: mysqldump -h localhost -u [MySQL

XML Beans scomp - java.io.IOException: CreateProcess

2010-04-28T02:09:00.000-07:00

This a famous exception that occurs while using XML beans. Use the following checklist before running the scomp command Check if the JAVA_HOME environment variable is pointing to the Java root directory Check if CLASSPATH & PATH environment variables has java bin directory as the first entry Check if the XSD being used is properly defined and complete. The XSD should not be a partial

SQL Server - varchar hours to int minutes

2010-04-15T02:16:00.000-07:00

My table had a column of type varchar. It contained Hours in the format 40:20 where 40 is the hours and 20 is the minutes. I wanted to convert it into minutes of type int. 40:20 should be converted to 2420. I used the following strategy: 1) Split the varchar using ":" delimiter. select * from dbo.split('40:20',':') This will return two rows. Row one contains 40 and row two contains 20.

Tomcat as Service - Service Startup on System Startup

2010-04-07T23:17:00.000-07:00

If you want to start tomcat on system startup automatically, you can create tomcat service as follows. This is part of my bat file which I invoke using iZpack (an open source installer tool). @echo on "%~1\Apache Software Foundation\bin\tomcat6" //IS//Tomcat6 --Startup auto --JvmMx 516 --JvmMs 256 --Install "%~1\Apache Software Foundation\bin\tomcat6.exe" --Jvm auto --StartMode jvm --StopMode

Symlink - infinite folder issue

2010-04-07T08:54:00.000-07:00

Hey All, Recently I ended up in setting a Symlink for one of my sub-sites driven by Drupal. The url for my sub-site was somewhat like this "www.example.com/sub1". What I actually did was created a symlink at the root called sub1. The site worked fine and I never realized that even if a user types "www.example.com/sub1/sub1" the same homepage is served to the user by the server. It does not stop

How to Create multi-sites using Drupal

2010-04-06T21:14:00.000-07:00

Listed are the steps to create multiple sites under a sub-directory using a single Drupal codebase. Create a new database if you choose to have the subsite independent of the main Drupal site. Note that the sub-site can also use the same database of the main drupal site.Create a folder under the /drupal/sites/ folder. Note that I have assumed the drupal installation is on the root. Change the

Drupal CMS Internal Server Error 500

2010-04-06T20:53:00.000-07:00

Drupal one of the best CMS ever. Thought of installing a new Drupal website this morning. I have worked with several other Drupal sites before and never had any other site in the past give such a weird error as the one shown below: Internal Server Error The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request. Please contact the server administrator,

Favicons

2010-04-05T02:18:00.000-07:00

Here is a simple way to add favicon to you webpage. It is done using JSP and javascript: <script language="javascript"> var link = document.createElement('link'); link.type = 'image/x-icon'; link.rel = 'shortcut icon'; link.href = '<%=request.getContextPath()%>/images/logos/favicon.ico'; document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(link); </script> Make sure to add your

Spring and JNDI

2010-03-08T22:39:00.000-08:00

You can inject a jndi object to Spring bean as follows: In your server.xml file configure objects to be registered in JNDI (sample is for tomcat server) as follows: <context source="org.eclipse.jst.jee.server:Sample" reloadable="true" path="/Sample" docbase="Sample"> <resource factory="org.apache.naming.factory.BeanFactory" auth="Container" type="com.test.SampleBean" name="services/

Converting java (hex) string to java.awt.Color

2009-05-27T01:38:00.000-07:00

Here is a simple method that you can use it to convert hex string into java.awt.Color objects. private static Color parseStringtoColor(String hexstring){ Integer i = Integer.parseInt(hexstring.substring(1),16); Color color = new Color(i); return color; }

Multiple form submission due to background attribute in "td" tag

2009-05-25T06:31:00.000-07:00

Our team faced an issue with a particular module. The form was getting submitted more than once. We tried hard to figure out a solution for the problem. Finally we found that the problem was due to a normal "td" tag in the .jsp file. We had by mistake given an attribute “background” to that "td". The attribute “background” works absolutely fine within a td as long as the value to the attribute

JSF tips and Tricks

2009-05-22T02:45:00.000-07:00

If you are using JSF in your application, then you should probably read through. This post covers few of the problems that I faced while using Apache Trinidad Implementation of JSF and the solutions to those problems. RTL Language Switching: If your application has both LTR ( languages like English) and RTL(languages like Arabic, Hebrew) support, then be extra careful while creating your jspx

Jasper Report Features

2009-05-22T01:20:00.000-07:00

Off late I had been closely working with jasper reports (an open source java reporting tool developed by JasperForge). It's one of the coolest reporting tools I have come across. It has too many exciting features... Here are few of them that might excite you. Right to Left Reporting: Do you have a scenario where you need to build both left-to-right and right-to-left(used in languages like arabic