Stage and test code and configuration

[grandmasterv]

Steps to stage the new code and configuration at http://stage-www.microbiology.ubc.ca. I will update this post as the steps evolve over the course of the project.

1) EDIT CONTENT

Migrate the following updated views:

• News and Events
• Calendar
• Faculty
• JEMI Volume List

Migrate the following pages:

• My Account Page

Remove the manual print link added on the directory pages

• https://stage-www.microbiology.ubc.ca/directory
• https://stage-www.microbiology.ubc.ca/directory/past-personnel
• https://stage-www.microbiology.ubc.ca/directory/print-version
• https://stage-www.microbiology.ubc.ca/node/403

  2) EDIT STRUCTURE

Set all blocks to "Region: None" EXCEPT

• System Help: Content
• Main Page Content: Content

Confirm Block settings on all enabled blocks. Specifically the menu block.

3) UNINSTALL MODULES

• Print friendly. The CLF has print friendly css that formats the page ok without need of this. Remove print_* tables in database if any are left after uninstalling the print friendly module

  4) ENABLE MODULES

• Admin theme Adminimal. Admin theme use required by CLF. Adminimal is a nice responsive admin theme.
• Module Filter
• Diff
• Views Bootstrap
• Panels (also enable page manager, views content panes, and custom content panes)
  • First enable panels modules. They currently give an error. Keep trying to enable, it will eventually get there.
  • Next run database update. Panels update will only work when panels is enabled.
  • Confirm/Set Panels and Page manger permissions for administrator
  • Migrate panel pages.

    5) UPDATE MODULE CONFIGURATION

• Update Login destination setting to "my-account" instead of the php destination calculation.

  6) INSTALL CLF

• Download and enable CLF setting all relevant configuration on the theme settings page.
• All custom CSS is located in css/unit-custom.css

  7) CONFIRM PERMISSIONS

• Apache needs write permissions on all files and folders underneath the following path:

chown root:apache -R dev-www.microbiology.ubc.ca/sites/default/files/*
chmod 775 -R dev-www.microbiology.ubc.ca/sites/default/files/*

[grandmasterv]

Followed these steps today for staging the website starting from a fresh snapshot of the production site:

Steps I took Jan 28 to stage (www3) after a fresh snapshot of the production server

FILES

• Restored files and drupal database from drush archive-dump
• Removed old incorrect drush archive database settings from the end of the settings.php file
• Allow Apache to read the settings file: sudo chmod 644 /var/www/virtualhosts/www3.microbiology.ubc.ca/sites/default/settings.php
• Allow Apache to write to the /sites/default/files directory sudo chmod 2764 /var/www/virtualhosts/www3.microbiology.ubc.ca/sites/default/files
• Set Apache as the owner and group for /sites/default/files directory sudo chown apache:apache /var/www/virtualhosts/www3.microbiology.ubc.ca/sites/default/files

THEMES

• Copy shiny admin theme
• Enable shiny
• Set admin theme to shiny and check "Use the administration theme when editing or creating content"
• Disable seven theme (old admin theme)
• Disable all blocks on the shiny theme except "Main page content" in the content area and "system help" in the help area. (don't know why drupal enables all blocks by default on admin themes.)
• Copied over Megatron parent theme and micb_clf_7 child theme
• Enable Megatron UBC CLF parent theme
• Enable Microbiology UBC CLF child theme
• Set child theme as default
• Disable and Delete old "UBC CLF Theme (new)" theme
• Create a Main menu (levels 2+)' block for display in the left sidebar region on the UBC CLF Micro theme
• Disable all blocks on Microbiology theme except "system help" in the help area, "main page content" in the content area and the "main menu (levels 2+)" block in the first sidebar area.
• Copy the adminimal_admin_menu and admin_menu module
• Enable module Administration Menu and Administration Menu Adminimal Theme. Should see this message after enabling "The core "Toolbar" module was automatically disabled to avoid double menu rendering. Disabling the Adminimal menu module will automatically re-enable the core toolbar module, so you have nothing to worry about."
• Copy fpa module
• Enable Fast Permissions Administration module
• Copy module_filter module
• Enable Module Filter module

LOGIN/LOGOUT LINK

• Manualy create the login and logout links in the main menu. I tried to featureize this but it would not work for some reason.

FRONT PAGE

• Apply this SQL fix to the database before enabling Panels: https://www.drupal.org/node/2188277 CREATE TABLE cache_panels ( cid varchar(255) NOT NULL DEFAULT '' COMMENT 'Primary Key: Unique cache ID.', data longblob COMMENT 'A collection of data to cache.', expire int(11) NOT NULL DEFAULT '0' COMMENT 'A Unix timestamp indicating when the cache entry should expire, or 0 for never.', created int(11) NOT NULL DEFAULT '0' COMMENT 'A Unix timestamp indicating when the cache entry was created.', serialized smallint(6) NOT NULL DEFAULT '0' COMMENT 'A flag to indicate whether content is serialized (1) or not (0).', PRIMARY KEY (cid), KEY expire (expire) ) ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8 COMMENT='Generic cache table for caching things not separated out...';
• Copy these modules: micb/front_page, Features, Panels, Strongarm, Uuid, Views_bootstrap
• Enable these modules: Features, Page manager, Panels, Strongarm, Universally Unique ID, Views Bootstrap, Views content panes.
• Enable Front Page module.
• Navigate to features, revert the front page feature. Will have to revert again after the first time to include the page manager as well.
• Hide the News block on all themes
• Enable Node Export module
• Configure the Node Export module to create a new revsion "When importing a node that already exists", Enable all File exported for content types, set Remote file export, URL
• Due to some unknown limitation we need to create the folder for the carousel images on the stage now.
  mkdir /var/www/virtualhosts/www3.microbiology.ubc.ca/sites/default/files/custom_images chown apache:apache /var/www/virtualhosts/www3.microbiology.ubc.ca/sites/default/files/custom_images
• On Dev, navigate to the content page, Filter by Carousel Image type. Select all nodes that you wish to export and via Update Options select Node Export. Click Update.
• On the following page either download the file or copy the code in the window.
• Back on the Stage, Confirm that apache has permissions to create folders and files in the /sites/default/files directory or file import may not work. May have manually create this directory for the import to work. I think this could be a bug in the module.
• Navigate to Content -> Add Content -> Node Export: Import.
• Paste in the code or upload the file you got from Node export on the Dev and the nodes should now be imported.

FACULTY LISTING

• Copy module /micb/faculty_listing
• Enable module Faculty Listing
• Revert Faculty Listing feature to apply the changes.

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

• Copy module /micb/articles
• Enable Articles module
• Revert Articles feature

MENU

• Ran the following SQL to set menu item expansion properties to work properly with the new menu system: UPDATE dev_drupal.menu_links SET expanded = 0 WHERE menu_name = "main-menu"; UPDATE dev_drupal.menu_links SET expanded = 1 WHERE link_title = "About" OR link_title = "Students" OR link_title = "Faculty & Staff" OR link_title = "Research" OR link_title = "News & Events" OR link_title = "Alumni" OR link_title = "Directory" OR link_title = "Login" OR link_title = "Logout";

CONTENT

• Imported top level pages, set their path alias and set their respective top level menu items to link to them. Also had to set the sub menu items to have the new pages as parents

PERSONNEL DATABASE

• Created personnel database
• Created personneldb user. Restricted access to this DB only
• Imported personnel database from backup