Google Analytics Filters Shared by Reference

Submitted by steveoliver on Sun, Sep 30, 2012 - 3:41pm 
i.e.:
$ga_filter1_on_siteA = 'foo';
$ga_filter1_on_siteB = $ga_filter_on_siteA;
$ga_filter1_on_siteB = 'bar';
print $ga_filter_on_siteA;  // => "bar";

 

WTF.  These filters are copied/shared by reference?  Apparently.

Google Analytics (Real-Time) filters not working at all

Submitted by steveoliver on Thu, Sep 30, 2012 - 9:32pm

You may be like me and wonder why it seems that Google Analytics Filters are not working at all -- on the Real-Time Overview page, for example.  It was here that I've been bashing my head against Hostname Include and Exclude filters, expecting the Real-Time data to be filtered.

Apparently, Real-Time data in Google Analytics completely disregards any Filters.

That's got to be a bug!

Drush Registry Rebuild (rr) Helps Fix Module [Un]Install Mess

Submitted by steveoliver on Sun, Sep 30, 2012 - 12:33pm

Additional uncaught exception thrown while handling exception. Original

Aegir Serves 404 error during Migrate task before Varnish is restarted

Submitted by steveoliver on Fri, Sep 30, 2012 - 9:17am

I migrated a site from one platform to another.  In the process, the site went down with a 404 not found error from Apache.  When the Migrate task completed, Apache (not Drupal) still threw a 404 error.  Post 8080 (Apache, behind Varnish) delivered the page.  So I restarted varnish and the site began responding again on port 80.

 

Hmmm...  Should Varnish be restarted as part of the Migrate task?  Why have I never experienced this with any other Migrate tasks?

Aegir Changes Passwords on Site Migrations

Submitted by steveoliver on Wed, Sep 30, 2012 - 11:55am

Site passwords change in Apache config files when Aegir site is migrated between platforms.  Only slightly annoying for drush alias file management.

Drupal Profiling with XHProf on Ubuntu 11.10 + Memcached and Varnish

Submitted by steveoliver on Fri, Aug 31, 2012 - 11:19am

  1. Install memcached, varnish, and xhprof

    sudo apt-get install memcached
    sudo apt-get install php5-memcached
    sudo apt-get install varnish
    sudo pecl install php-xhprof

  2. Install xhprof front-end

    cd /var/www
    git clone https://github.com/facebook/xhprof.git

  3. Configure Apache and Varnish ports

    sudo vim /etc/apache2/ports.conf ; // Change 80 to 8080
    sudo vim /etc/apache2/sites-available/default // Change 80 to 8080
    sudo vim /etc/default/varnish // Change 6081 to 80

  4. [Re]start services

Set Drupal cache and aggregation settings in settings.php

Submitted by steveoliver on Sun, Jul 31, 2012 - 8:21pm

Drupal 6:

$conf['preprocess_css'] = 0;
$conf['preprocess_js'] = 0;
$conf['cache'] = 0;

 

 

Set Drupal files directory path in settings.php

Submitted by steveoliver on Sat, Jul 31, 2012 - 9:51pm

In Drupal 6 settings.php:

$conf['file_directory_path'] = 'sites/yoursite.com/files';

In Drupal 7 settings.php:

$conf['file_public_path'] = 'sites/yoursite.com/files';
$conf['file_private_path'] = '/var/_private-web-files/yoursite.com';

 

Troubleshooting Dying Jenkins Server

Submitted by steveoliver on Thu, May 31, 2012 - 9:15pm

New to Jenkins, I'm having an issue troubleshooting Jenkins -- specifically why it's dying...

I couldn't see any gripes in /var/log/jenkins/jenkins.log -- just normal startup notifications...

But the jenkins service keeps dying.

After some searching for "jenkins ci die", I found these resources:

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