Katomi

The Old Site is still being migrated - slowly. This is the old version of the site which I am still trying to migrate. If I ever find the time to accomplish this task, eventually this link will disappear.

There are a couple of strategic issues that I need to work out as far as how and what is being moved to where, but it is not forgotten.

Just some recent changes to the site.

Drupal: I'm still learning but I'm getting there. I can now edit my own posts, for the most part, but if it's stuck at the top of the page I can't seem to edit that yet. I recently moved Drupal from a subdirectory to the DocumentRoot with only minor problems. I had to undo the "use friendly url's" option because it didn't work, I'm still trying to figure this one out.

I have been trying to get my "clean urls" working but they only seem to work for some pages. This puzzles me, it may be something simple but I definitely need to learn more about Drupal. In the meantime, I stumbled across this blamcast.net article. Another article can b e found here at the linkfindblog.blogspot website which posts another version of the .htaccess file.

20071113 Alas, I have discovered my particular problem, it was because I had mod_jk installed on the server. As it turns out, there was an entry in my httpd.conf file that redirected /admin/something to tomcat - my bad. After I uninstalled mod_jk and restarted Apache clean-urls started working.

20071116: I have found another module to try, E-Journal, a powerful production publishing system. It appealed to me just because it mentioned "It allows you to create and control your own electronic (and possibly printed) journals in Drupal - you can set up as many journals as you want". And what about the Frequently Asked Questions (faq) module, it allows users with the 'administer faq' permission to create question and answer pairs which they want displayed on the 'faq' page. Or the MySite module, it allows registered site users to create a MySite page that contains content from throughout the site. For sites that use the Aggregator module, users may also add feeds from external web sites to their MySite pages. Or the News Page module, it allows creation of pages which show syndicated 'news' items from an aggregator category. Or the Automated Logout, this module provides a site administrator the ability to log users out after a specified time of inactivity. Or the Comment Mail module, it allows an email to be sent to the site administrator(s) when new comments are posted. Or the Site Documentation module, it picks up information from various places within the Drupal environment and presents the summarized information.

Something else I want to look at is PhpGedView. This is a revolutionary genealogy program which allows you to view and edit your genealogy on your website.

20080113: I updated the installation here so that it will force a secure connection (go from http to https). At first I tried looking for a solution at httpd.apache.org but after refining my search I found the solution here.

Just another quick note about Drupal. I was fiddling around with styles.css, trying to figure out if I could set the width of the main content area to a constant width instead of it being just 100%. I was able to do this using max-width: 780px; but after navigating around I found that this wasn't enough. There were some pages (in the administration section) where the content items were wider than this but the background colors stopped at 780px. I am going to have to give-in and buy that Pro Drupal Development book so I can learn the inner workings of Drupal.

20071224: I created a Public Files directory to upload files to. Creating a subdirectory for a particular subject/article might be good - if the files aren't going to be used in another subject/article.

Welcome to the Katomi web site. This is work in progress and as changes are made I will try to keep you updated. I haven't been focusing on too much trying to put more information on to this welcome page, most of my time has been spent trying to figure out JBoss. It was frustrating but alas, I was able to find a resource that had the answer.

Some of the documents I am working on are ...

If you go Katomi Website page you can see all the content related to this category. I'm still learning and I don't play with Drupal as much as I would like so sometimes it takes me a couple of days to figure out what I'm trying to do.

Another section is the Katomi Project section. This is where my project pages are being kept at the moment.

I have a lot of work to do, I was trying to add items to the Happy Retirees menu but I think it's more involved than what I was thinking. I figured I could just add some items that linked to different nodes and all would be fine, what was I thinking. I believe the items need to have the same leading path as the parent menu but then the items will have additional information following the parent path. I will have to conquer this at a later date.