muzitaal.be

1 DRUPAL · mt-d8-zircon

• Drupal 8 - v8.4.2 (April 18, 2018)
• source: http://www.weebpal.com/drupal-themes/zircon-responsive-drupal-8-theme
• README.txt contains:
  • Theme Information
  • Folder Structure
  • Installation

Theme Information

• Guide: http://weebpal.com/guides
• FAQ: http://weebpal.com/faq

Folder Structure

• README.txt
• zircon_d8-demo-8.4.2.zip demo for Zircon Drupal 8
• zircon_d8-8.4.2.zip: Zircon Drupal 8 theme

Installation

From Demo package: http://www.weebpal.com/guides/step-step-guide-install-drupal-8-theme

1. Download Zircon package here
2. Extract the download package to get these files:
   • Theme: zircon_d8-8.1.1.zip
   • Demo Package: zircon_d8-demo-8.1.1.zip
3. Extract Demo Package above and copy it into your host, and rename the directory to zircon
4. Access to database and create a database with a name such as zircon-d8.
5. In the demo directory database , you can find database dump named sample_data.sql
   • Import this file into new database.
     
     • https://www.drupal.org/docs/8/install/step-3-create-a-database:
       • Make sure you select COLLATION utf8mb4_unicode_ci or utf8mb4_general_ci, so in phpMyAdmin, proceed as follows after the creation of your database:
       • click on the name of your database in the left panel
       • click on the tab Operations/Handelingen
       • in the Collation/Collatie panel: choose utf8mb4_unicode_ci
       • check the Change all tables collations/Wijzig alle tabelcollaties checkbox
       • then click on the Go/Starten button
     • then import the sample_data.sql file
6. Open browser and navigate to your website :
   • Choose language: Nederlands
     • Translations will be downloaded from the Drupal Translation website.
   • Profiel kiezen: Standaard - Minimaal
   • Vereisten controleren:
     
     • Drupal is reeds geïnstalleerd
       • Om opnieuw te beginnen, maakt u de bestaande database leeg en vervangt u settings.php door default.settings.php.
       • Om een bestaande installatie te upgraden, gaat u verder naar script updaten.
       • Bekijk uw bestaande site.
   • Click Visit your new site and you will have a new site.
   • Welcome to Drupal 8. Now enjoy your work built with Zircon theme from WeebPal:
7. Now, you can visit administrator site with the admin account admin/admin to delete the unnecessary contents and add the new ones.

Change the admin user and password

• Login with admin/admin
• People menu: edit admin user: modify your user credentials
• Click Configuration > Development > Performance -→ Clear all caches, then Save configuration
• Click on your user name and choose Log out
• Log in again with your new credentials

Multilingual

• Extend: Language: Configure
• List tab:
  • Add language: Dutch
  • Add language: French
  • Move Dutch to 1st position, French to 2nd position
  • Set Dutch as Default language
  • Save configuration
• LANGUAGE SWITCHER BLOCK / BLOK TAALKEUZE plaatsen:
  • Structure > Block layout
  • Choose your theme
  • Choose location, e.g. sidebar 2nd: place block
  • Choose language switcher block / taalkeuze: place block
  • Save block
• suddenly, EN was again changed in English in the language switcher
  • https://drupal.stackexchange.com/questions/175586/how-can-i-replace-english-with-en
  • add the below function to /domains/muzitaal.be/public_html/drupal/themes/zircon/zircon.theme:

function MYTHEME_preprocess_links__language_block(&$variables) {
  $variables['links']['en']['link']['#title'] = 'EN';
}

Redirect / Rewrite root dir to subdir

As I did for the Drupal 7 Vox Mago site when I switched to HostingSquad (see here), you can also achieve this on Drupal 7.

I found the following two articles:

• https://www.bytech.ca/articles/drupal8/drupal-8-subdirectory-access
• https://www.drupal.org/forum/support/post-installation/2016-06-22/d8-how-to-use-drupal-8-in-a-subfolder

The first contains two extra rewrite conditions and one extra rewrite rule, but forgets to set the rewrite engine on.

I opted for the 2nd one, and hope everything works fine.

1. .htaccess root directory

Add:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule (.*) drupal/$1 [L]

2. .htaccess drupal directory

Uncomment:

RewriteBase /drupal

3. settings.php (.../drupal/sites/default/~)

Add at the end:

if (isset($GLOBALS['request']) && '/web/index.php' === $GLOBALS['request']->server->get('SCRIPT_NAME')) {
 $GLOBALS['request']->server->set('SCRIPT_NAME', '/index.php');
} 

4. 404

There remained however one problem, not due to Drupal or the rewrite lines, but to the fact that I had a never expiring index.html in the root directory! I deleted it, but once the index.html is on a client browser, it never checks for an updated version, and this is beyond my control. So, I always got a 404 message in browsers where the site was already cached!

The best thing I could come up with, was redirecting all 404's to the homepage:

• Configuration > System > Basic site settings
• Settings tab > ERROR PAGES section > Default 404 (not found) page: by default, this field is empty (generic page not found), I changed it in '/', going to the <front> page, but not showing all elements… ('/' = '/nl' = '/node' = /node?id=1)

2 COMING-SOON

Under construction template

3 FILEMAN

Manage your website through a powerful web-based file manager.

The file you can download there, is a .tar.gz file, but in reality it's a .tar file!

4 FORMS41

PHP Contact Form Generator

5 AKEEBASOLO

Backup, restore and transfer any PHP site or application in seconds.