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  • 2024/02/02:
    • disgusted and turned my back on the project since it crashed.
      Did some surfing and attempts to fix, all unsuccessful.
      Suspect I'll be rebuilding it from scratch.

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  • 2024/01/25:
    • have been researching and trying to figure out CSS selectors to style regions and blocks. Some success.
    • However after doing a restart of PC last night, I get 'unable to connect' error when trying to load dev-10.ddev.site
      say what???
    • have not yet done anything with backup_migrate module.

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  • 2024/01/20:
    • finally figured out url syntax to run update.php on local site. see local server management.
    • now starting process of loading backup_migrate module.

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  • 2024/01/16:
    • over the last several days:
      created theme jc04 with starterkit from stable9.
      managed to lockup/crash it, then managed to recover. Good learning.

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  • 2024/01/13:
    • over the last several days:
      managed to create sub-themes
      refined procedure for doing css styling on regions
    • downloaded and experimented with the drinimal minimal-base theme
      first steps all worked, or seemed to,
      including steps to edit the expanded/installed files,
      then re-zip so I could again install with a .tar.gz,
      but in the end could never get it to load/install, clear-cache and restart didn't work, apparently due to some permission issue.
      giving up on it, at least for now,
    • never was able to find css selectors that worked to style blocks, other than the universal " * "

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  • 2024/01/09:

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  • 2024/01/08:
    • installed some contributed themes. a little sketchy...

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  • 2024/01/07:

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  • 2024/01/05:
    • researching process to set up a local server. Tentative polan to set up Drupal 10 on it
    • So far looks like I need to install Docker...

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  • 2024/01/04:
    • Still digging through web for info on upgrading to drupal 10. Nothing making sense to my ignorant mind yet.
    • Some places seem to be saying that I need to build a drupal 10 site, then "migrate" ie. move my content, from existing to new site.

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  • 2024/01/03:
    • Finished editing update procedure on: "Update" page,
      pulled the trigger and updated to 7.99
    • everything seems to have worked, with no errors...

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  • 2023/12/29:
    • Current version is 10.2
      Recommendation is to upgrade to that.
    • Starting the researching process for the process.
      First step will be to UPDATE to 7.99
    • downloaded both .tar.gz and .zip files of 7.99 "core"
    • next step: backup all files, directories, and the db
    • next step: I will use GUI with phpMyAdmin (as opposed to CLI with drush)
        Tip:
        If you want to backup a bigger MySQL Database on a hosted webspace with phpMyAdmin,
        you could run into problems, because there often is a time limit for php processing.
        There is a script called MySQLDumper or Bigdump that has a workaround for the limit.
        MySQLDumper can also generate automatic backups.

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  • 2023/11/23:
    • Reviewing status and online documentation in order to do update/upgrade to latest version.
    • Reports: says I'm currently running Drupal: 7.73
      with MySQL: 5.6.41-84.1
      and PHP: 7.4.33
    • Further says "not secure", that core 7.98 is available.
    • Further says some modules are out of date.

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  • 2021/02/01:
    • node corrections all done from Oct-2020 update to 7.4 Yay!

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  • 2020/12/11:
    • Starting to do a site backup, root folder (public_html) & db.
      Root zip and download went fine.
    • But discovered I have two databases defined, drupald6c, which was original one,
      and drupal-7.73.
      In my backups folder on my PC, I have never saved a backup of the -7.73 db.
      Not sure what to think. Decided I will backup that db, and sometime later will try to reconstruct from backup just to verify that it's the right one.
    • Attempted to back up the -7.73 db, however when I selected it in phpMyAdmin, message said it had no tables defined.
      Will backup the drupald6c.

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  • 2020/11/21:
    • edited SNM01.css to use a disc style bullet
      Didn't work. Cleared cache, still nada.
    • See: css page

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  • 2020/11/11:
    • Uploaded SMN01.css to [root]themes/garland/css
      Edited [root]themes/garland/garland.info to include reference to it:
            stylesheets[all][] = css/SMN01.css
      All worked. Yay!

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  • 2020/11/03:
    • BH tech support updated me from PHP 7.0 to 7.2. Neither 7.3 nor 7.4 are available yet. They'll send out emails when ready...
      No initial difference noted.
    • Decided to bite the bullet and move my files and images folders out of root directory into sites/default/files where they belong.
      Slogging through the process of updating links throughout the site...

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  • 2020/11/02:
    • Finished refining backup & restore procedures. Also changed locations and naming convention for backups. Tested and all works.
    • In my continuing study and understanding of the process, I discovered that drupal best practices suggests that custom files should always be stored in sites/default/files folder. I have put my "files" and "images" folders in my root (public_html) folder. Some time later will need to remedy that. Hope I don't have to edit every file and image link in my site ...
        But if that's the case, then I'll be searching all my nodes for instances of ... .txt and .jpg and .pdf, and changing their links...
    • Also, status report says I am using PHP 7.0.33, but drupal.org says I need 7.2, or 7.3, or preferably 7.4

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  • 2020/10/31:
    • After much pounding of head and gnashing of teeth, managed to get the site updated to 7.73 from 7.4. Will be trying to capture all the tiny details needed to make it work.
    • In the end, however, it appears internal link format is different in 7.73:
      In 7.4, I could link to a page with: href="/node/300" for example
      In 7.73 I need to use: href="/?q=node/300"
      Must I now go back and edit all of my nearly 500 page nodes????
    • Curioser and curioser: noticed that site menu on left sidebar links work, even though no link format corrections have been made.
      Went into menu config and see that links are still node/... format, ie. without the ?q=
      OTOH, when you click on a Site Menu link, the link that shows in the URL bar is indeed /?q=node/...
      WTF?
    • This link explains procedure for using "Clean URL's" that may affect this problem...

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  • 2019/12/21:
    • HostGator says I'm on PHP 5.4. I'm pretty sure I'm using Drupal 6. HG doesn't do updates to Drupal either.
    • Found a page on Drupal.org that recommended PHP 7.3 for Drupal.

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  • 2019/12/20:
    • Talked to BlueHost cust service about the warnings/errors on every page. He said the problem was that the version of Drupal that I had was not compatible with the current version of PHP (7 something). So he moved me back to PHP 5.6, and the errors went away. He said I should update/upgrade my Drupal version ASAP.
    • Online researching shows there is an "update" version 7.69 recommended, and it is slated to be supported until Nov 2021.
      Need to find out if Drupal 7.69 is compatible with PHP 7...
    • Current version of Drupal is 8.8 per their website. Upgrading to 8 is more complicated than "updating" from 7.4 to 7.69 ...
    • Blue Host guy sent me instructions/link with procedures for backing up my site. They also will do that as a service for like $30/yr. They do NOT, however, update or upgrade Drupal versions.

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