Tag: drupal

  • Drupal 8: Configure block or Place Block do nothing

    In short, clicking on “Place Block” results in a brief loading icon and then nothing, and Configure Block results in a “This website encountered an unexpected error” message. The fix was found here:   https://www.drupal.org/node/2597506   Edit the following file – the “core” directory should be in your Drupal 8 root directory:   [drupal root]/core/lib/Drupal/Core/Annotation/Translation.php…

  • Drupal 8 – How to enable multi image upload

    One of the great things about Drupal 8 is that it has multi-image uploading capabilities built-in, unlike Drupal 7. By default, however, it’s a single image at a time.   To enable multiple image upload for articles, for example, navigate to:   siteurl/admin/structure/types/manage/article/fields   Click “edit” next to the Image field type, and you’re taken…

  • Installing Aegir 3 on Debian 8 Jessie/Ubuntu with Nginx

    So, after a few failed attempts at installing the Aegir 3 Drupal control system we hit upon this “recipe” as what works for us currently on a fresh install of Debian 8 Jessie or Ubuntu 14.04. This assumes you are logged in as root. First, update and upgrade your system. apt-get update && apt-get upgrade…

  • Upload error 413 “Request Entity Too Large” on Nginx

    When trying to upload files to a Drupal installation running on nginx, we got a 413 error: Request Entity too large.   We had gone through and updated the php files with regard to max upload file size limits, but had neglected to do the same to the nginx config file (/etc/nginx/nginx.conf on Debian). We…

  • Drupal 7 – Two administrative menus after module installed

    In Drupal 7 when trying to use the module “Administration Menu” (quite a handy module) after enabling it we ended up with two menus or toolbars: The fix for this is to disable the existing “Toolbar” module – this should remove the original toolbar and leave you with just the new Administration Menu menu/toolbar.

  • Drupal 7 – “Manage fields” missing from Content Type admin page

    When trying to add file uploads to the “page” content type creation, we found that the Manage Fields section was missing (Structure -> Content Types).   In this case it turned out that the module Field UI had been disabled; re-enabling that module brought the Manage Fields option back.