OT: DRUPAL site got killed...

[Cornelius Mostert]

Hi all
This is off topic but I am not sure where to go.
My site got killed and state:
The selected file  could not be copied, because no file by that name exists. Please check that you supplied the correct filename.

I tried to reload all the modules but no luck!! How do I check WHAT files were missing so I can try to replace them...

My Site: www.cjmITsystems.com

thanx

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[bittin]

it seems to work here, even if the css is not good at all :p

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Date: Thu, 27 May 2010 17:00:32 +0100
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Subject: [ubuntu-uk] OT: DRUPAL site got killed...

Hi all
This is off topic but I am not sure where to go.
My site got killed and state:
The selected file  could not be copied, because no file by that name exists. Please check that you supplied the correct filename.

I tried to reload all the modules but no luck!! How do I check WHAT files were missing so I can try to replace them...

My Site: www.cjmITsystems.com

thanx

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[J Fernyhough]

On 27 May 2010 17:00, Cornelius Mostert <[hidden email]> wrote:

> Hi all
> This is off topic but I am not sure where to go.
> My site got killed and state:
> The selected file  could not be copied, because no file by that name exists.
> Please check that you supplied the correct filename.
>
> I tried to reload all the modules but no luck!! How do I check WHAT files
> were missing so I can try to replace them...
>
> My Site: www.cjmITsystems.com
>
> thanx
>
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Seems to be working.

/s Surely as Senior IT Specialist this should be a piece of cake? :P

Do a search on the Drupal forums; if you have the error someone else
will have had the error.

Jonathon

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On 27 May 2010 17:00, Cornelius Mostert <[hidden email]> wrote:

Hi all
This is off topic but I am not sure where to go.

Did you not think to look on http://drupal.org/support
They even have a 'Help' Forum http://drupal.org/forum

Colin
More Senior IT Specialist with embedded ability to Google :P

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[Alan Pope-2]

On 27 May 2010 17:00, Cornelius Mostert <[hidden email]> wrote:
> This is off topic but I am not sure where to go.
> My site got killed and state:

'site got killed' isn't a particularly useful description of the
problem. What were you doing at the time? What has changed recently?
Have you installed any additional modules, upgraded the site or have
some other system changes been done?

> The selected file  could not be copied, because no file by that name exists.
> Please check that you supplied the correct filename.
>

Googling for that error message returns some useful hits. You didn't
specify what version of drupal you're running or what you did that
triggered the error so hard to know which of the hits might be useful
to you.

http://www.google.co.uk/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=The+selected+file+could+not+be+copied,+because+no+file+by+that+name+exists.+Please+check+that+you+supplied+the+correct+filename.

Amusingly your very message appears on the first page.

To everyone else replying on this thread, please keep it friendly.

Cheers,
Al.

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[danattwood]

you css filepaths look very odd and they aren't loading. I would expect the files to be with the theme they are attached to rather then in files

Also there have been a large number of security fixes to Drupal modules recently so I hope you've got the email alerts turned on and been keep them up to date. 

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[ian pettitt (RRes-BB)]

On 27 May 2010, at 21:41, "Dan Attwood" <[hidden email]>  
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> you css filepaths look very odd and they aren't loading. I would  
> expect the files to be with the theme they are attached to rather  
> then in files
>
>
> Also there have been a large number of security fixes to Drupal  
> modules recently so I hope you've got the email alerts turned on and  
> been keep them up to date.
> <ATT00001..txt>

I would check the permissions on the cache/files folder, if the  
webserver can't write to them the css files won't be generated -  
drupal combines multiple css files into a single file. The required  
permissions can be found in the installation guide on the drupal  
website.

Thank
Ian

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[Cornelius Mostert]

>Seems to be working.
>/s Surely as Senior IT Specialist this should be a piece of cake? :P

You could laugh but event the best Diesel technician might struggle on a petrol or electric engine

Thanx

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[Sean Miller]

Do you not have any backups from before it "got killed"??

You could restore somewhere else and compare the files -- only a thought.

Sean

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[Jon Farmer-3]

On Fri, 2010-05-28 at 08:14 +0100, Cornelius Mostert wrote:
> >Seems to be working.
> >/s Surely as Senior IT Specialist this should be a piece of cake? :P
>
> You could laugh but event the best Diesel technician might struggle on
> a petrol or electric engine

True, but he might think to RTFM :-)

Regards

Jon


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[Tony Travis-3]

Hello, Jon.

Well, I think you were right to post your question here: Anyone who thinks they know everything about IT is a fool.

The essence of our FLOSS community is helping each other and being honest enough to admit when you don't know. Cornelius  is right about the RTFM, of course, but the bane of my life is people who are too insecure to admit that they don't know everything and struggle on without asking for help. I use Drupal too, but I don't know everything about it, and I'm happy to ask other people who know more than I do when I'm faced with a problem that I can't solve. In particular, when I installed Drupal6 under 10.04 LTS, I had to fix the Drupal Apache config file to permit execution of php scripts in the Drupal directory. I was a bit surprised that I had to do that and I'm posting to this list now to see if anyone else has installed Drupal6 under Lucid?

Bye,

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Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] OT: DRUPAL site got killed...

On Fri, 2010-05-28 at 08:14 +0100, Cornelius Mostert wrote:
> >Seems to be working.
> >/s Surely as Senior IT Specialist this should be a piece of cake? :P
>
> You could laugh but event the best Diesel technician might struggle on
> a petrol or electric engine

True, but he might think to RTFM :-)

Regards

Jon



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[Sean Miller]

On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 12:04 PM, Travis, Tony <[hidden email]> wrote:
> Hello, Jon.
>
> Well, I think you were right to post your question here: Anyone who thinks they know
> everything about IT is a fool.
>
> The essence of our FLOSS community is helping each other and being honest enough to
> admit when you don't know. Cornelius  is right about the RTFM, of course, but the bane of
> my life is people who are too insecure to admit that they don't know everything and struggle

I agree with all of that, though I think you've got Jon and Cornelius
mixed up :-)

RTFM is a great concept, but it really depends on what it is you are
trying to do.  Sometimes if it's a package and it's behaving oddly and
you've already spent some time on it the sensible thing is to ask
others who might have experienced the same - a large part of being an
effective IT person is to know where to look for answers if you don't
know them yourself, and that is equally likely to be a person as a
book.

Best,

Sean

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[Jon Farmer-3]

On Sat, 2010-05-29 at 12:04 +0100, Travis, Tony wrote:
> Hello, Jon.
>
> Well, I think you were right to post your question here: Anyone who thinks they know everything about IT is a fool.
>
> The essence of our FLOSS community is helping each other and being honest enough to admit when you don't know. Cornelius  is right about the RTFM, of course, but the bane of my life is people who are too insecure to admit that they don't know everything and struggle on without asking for help. I use Drupal too, but I don't know everything about it, and I'm happy to ask other people who know more than I do when I'm faced with a problem that I can't solve. In particular, when I installed Drupal6 under 10.04 LTS, I had to fix the Drupal Apache config file to permit execution of php scripts in the Drupal directory. I was a bit surprised that I had to do that and I'm posting to this list now to see if anyone else has installed Drupal6 under Lucid?
>
> Bye,


Huh?


Regards

Jon


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[Tony Travis-3]

Hello, Sean.

Sorry, to Jon and Cornelius: I'm top-posting from M$ Outlook OWA, so you can't take my comments seriously ;-)

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I agree with all of that, though I think you've got Jon and Cornelius
mixed up :-)

RTFM is a great concept, but it really depends on what it is you are
trying to do.  Sometimes if it's a package and it's behaving oddly and
you've already spent some time on it the sensible thing is to ask
others who might have experienced the same - a large part of being an
effective IT person is to know where to look for answers if you don't
know them yourself, and that is equally likely to be a person as a
book.

Best,

Sean


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[Rob Beard]

On 29/05/10 12:04, Travis, Tony wrote:
> Hello, Jon.
>
> Well, I think you were right to post your question here: Anyone who thinks they know everything about IT is a fool.
>
> The essence of our FLOSS community is helping each other and being honest enough to admit when you don't know. Cornelius  is right about the RTFM, of course, but the bane of my life is people who are too insecure to admit that they don't know everything and struggle on without asking for help. I use Drupal too, but I don't know everything about it, and I'm happy to ask other people who know more than I do when I'm faced with a problem that I can't solve. In particular, when I installed Drupal6 under 10.04 LTS, I had to fix the Drupal Apache config file to permit execution of php scripts in the Drupal directory. I was a bit surprised that I had to do that and I'm posting to this list now to see if anyone else has installed Drupal6 under Lucid?

I'd agree with that.  I've just recently taken on an IT Manager type
role (although I'm not managing anyone but myself :-D) where I'm doing
everything from 1st to 3rd line.  The company I'm now working for have
some stuff like Sage and my knowledge of Sage is limited at best.  They
did have a support contract but it seems this has run out so at the
moment it is a case of best efforts.  Luckily there does seem to be a
wealth of information out there on free Sage support forums (not
official forums though) which is a help (considering most sites I found
to do with Sage are for companies who want £££'s to even look at the
problems).

I must admit on occasion in the past I've posted asking for help (not
specifically on here but on other mailing lists and forums) and
sometimes not put in enough information to help find a solution.  I've
also found myself in the past trying to sort something out which needed
to be fixed 'yesterday' and usually at 5pm on a Friday when I'm just
about to go home (latest one was 5 minutes before I was about to leave
to go on holiday for a week, it was a remote user who I couldn't get
hold of although fortunately the problem fixed itself).

So yeah I try and help on mailing lists when I can, ask questions when
I'm not sure of something and when it comes to work, if I specifically
need help which can't wait, sometimes I have to pay for support or
external services.  For instance I know little about web sites, I've
dabbled in HTML and played with Wordpress and e107 but I wouldn't be
confident enough to sort out my employer's web site, and I'm also
looking at replacing the phone system, sure I could implement Asterisk
myself (I've dabbled with Asterisk@Home) but being something mission
critical I'm going to get a local company (whom I know from my local
LUG) to install an Asterisk based system and still at a considerable
saving on what BT have quoted me. :-)

Rob

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