Transition Technology: Ticket Query

#727: Change background on block from orange to white

sam — Fri, 16 May 2014 10:02:17 GMT

Hi Ben

Rob wants a list of the themes presented in a block.

I did the block: https://www.transitionnetwork.org/admin/build/block/configure/block/97

But it appears with an orange background. The block is visible towards the bottom of the page (for logged in admins) here: https://www.transitionnetwork.org/blogs/rob-hopkins

If I put the block on other pages it appears with a white background.

I tried to hack it with some inline CSS but failed.

Could you take a look?

Thanks

Sam

#737: SPF / Emails rejected from the website contact form

sam — Thu, 05 Jun 2014 15:46:13 GMT

We had a user report that they could not send a message via our contact form:

"Yesterday I sent a message to you via the contact form on the website. But obviously something went wrong: for I got a failure notice saying my message could not be delivered. Therefore I'm sending it directly via email (see below) hoping that you're receiving my message this way."

<info@…>: host mx1.spamfiltering.com[72.249.150.158] said:

550 81.95.XX.XX is not allowed to send mail from gmx.de. Please see http://www.openspf.net/Why?scope=mfrom;identity=userXX@gmx.de;ip=81.95.XX.XX (in reply to end of DATA command)

(User details edited as this is publicly archived)

I'm not sure I quite understand what's going on here. Chris indicated in email that this would affect other users whose email provider has set this kind of SPF record.

Can we make an educated guess as to what proportion of email providers set this kind of SPF?

How many messages do we never get to see? Is it a problem? Or a small enough number of users that we just don't worry about it?

Thanks

Sam

#689: Duplicate comments

sam — Fri, 14 Feb 2014 12:21:23 GMT

Hi I got the below message from Mike. Paul could you take a look if you have a minute?

Thanks

Sam

I am noticing that many of the comments are being duplicated quite often - sometimes once and Rob's last comments was added twice. I've been deleting them but will be offline from now over the weekend.

This article is getting lots of comments https://www.transitionnetwork.org/blogs/rob-hopkins/2014-02/open-letter-bbc-lord-lawsons-today-programme-appearance

#715: Views admin pages not visible.

sam — Tue, 08 Apr 2014 14:51:29 GMT

Hi I just tried to access the views admin interface here: https://www.transitionnetwork.org/admin/build/views

It doesn't load the views admin pages, just an overview of the 'site building' pages instead.

The page works as I expect it to on the stage site here: https://stg2.transitionnetwork.org/admin/build/views

I have checked and the module is still enabled, The permissions look right (site admin is allowed to administer views: https://www.transitionnetwork.org/admin/user/permissions)

Anyone got an idea whats going on?

Thanks

Sam

#740: Add 'class button block' to Soundcloud block

sam — Thu, 12 Jun 2014 09:55:05 GMT

Hi Ben

Could you add 'class button block' to the block class settings for this block:

https://www.transitionnetwork.org/admin/build/block/configure/block/98?destination=blogs%2Frob-hopkins

Or shall I give myself 'developer' permissions so I can add these myself?

Thanks

Sam

#742: Stg site to play with

sam — Thu, 12 Jun 2014 14:35:42 GMT

Hi Paul

I'm trying to set up a stage site, just to test rearranging the homepage blocks.

I created a site on the "Transition Network D6 S012 Booker" Platform, but I just get an empty pressflow site: http://stgsam.transitionnetwork.org/

Can I use your stg site to test the block arrangement instead: https://booker-stage-20140501.transitionnetwork.org/

Or could you let me know what might be going wrong?

Thanks

Sam

#746: New comment notifications not being sent to content owners.

sam — Tue, 24 Jun 2014 09:27:11 GMT

Hi Paul, Annesley, Chris

Ed hasn't been getting notifications for new comments.

"Please check if new comment notifications are being sent to content owners. I don’t think I am receiving email alerts for my blog posts."

I'll email Rob to see if he's getting any.

Could you investigate?

Thanks

Sam

#767: robots.txt on dev site

sam — Thu, 31 Jul 2014 11:07:39 GMT

Hi Paul

Could you fix the robots.txt here:

https://booker-stage-20140501.transitionnetwork.org/robots.txt

Sam

#834: Slovenian State info missing again

sam — Thu, 26 Feb 2015 10:41:47 GMT

Hi Paul

The change that you made in this ticket: https://trac.transitionnetwork.org/trac/ticket/802

Seems to have been lost. I am no longer able to edit https://www.transitionnetwork.org/node/37435/edit

As the state/province information is missing.

Could you re-do the change please?

Thanks

Sam

#836: "Date is invalid" on film content type

sam — Thu, 05 Mar 2015 14:30:22 GMT

Hi Paul

Don't spend more than half an hour on this, if it takes longer I'll just remove the date field instead.

If I edit: https://www.transitionnetwork.org/node/35510/edit

Or add https://www.transitionnetwork.org/node/add/films

A film, the website it returns a "Year is invalid." error.

In the settings it's set to 'Y' https://www.transitionnetwork.org/admin/content/node-type/films/fields/field_film_year

I'm entering a four digit date, eg 2010

Any ideas?

Thanks

Sam

#853: Parrot access please

sam — Tue, 19 May 2015 17:07:13 GMT

Hi Chris

Ade & I were going to have a play around with making a proof of concept Wordpress microsite on Parrot.

Could you add me as a SSH user using the SSH keys associated with my sam@… account so I can follow the instructions here: https://trac.transitionnetwork.org/trac/wiki/ParrotServer#AddingaNewWordPressSite

Or if you'd rather not do that, just spin up a site titled 'conference15' with a user 'conference15' and my TN email as the admin email.

Thanks

Sam

#855: Piwik plugins

sam — Tue, 26 May 2015 12:10:13 GMT

Hi Chris

I spotted Piwik has some plugins to extend it's usefulness.

I'm quite interested in playing with some of them, particularly the clickheat one:

https://stats.transitionnetwork.org/index.php?module=CorePluginsAdmin&action=userBrowsePlugins&idSite=1&period=range&date=previous30&activated=#

Is it OK for me to install it to try? Or do you think the whole thing would grind to a halt?

Thanks

Sam

#856: Blocked IP?

sam — Tue, 02 Jun 2015 13:12:52 GMT

Hi Chris

I was trying to SSH into the site and got my password wrong a couple of times.

Shortly afterwards the site appeared to be unavailable from this location.

It seems fine in pingdom/proxy servers.

My guess is something like fail2ban or similar has added this IP to a blacklist?

I wouldn't be too bothered except it's Ade's address and I think he probably wants access..

Could you check the logs if there is a blacklist and remove 146.198.11.57

Thanks

Sam

#857: Tiny MCE weirdness

sam — Tue, 02 Jun 2015 15:24:33 GMT

Hi Paul,

Myself & Rob have both run into an intermittent issue where when editing a panel page the WYSYWG editor (Tiny MCE) sometimes appears, sometimes doesn't.

When it doesn't appear you are left with the plain text html editor.

There seems to be no obvious pattern to it. So might be a tricky one to debug.

I see the version of Tiny MCE we are using is quite old, so I was thinking perhaps we should just try upgrading it on a dev server and see if that fixes it?

If this seems reasonable could you stick the latest Tiny MCE on your dev server so we could test it out there? Or if you have any other ideas for getting to the bottom of it..

Thanks

Sam

#859: Subscription emails broken

sam — Tue, 16 Jun 2015 13:08:44 GMT

Hi just got this mail

"For some reason I realized I wasn't hearing from Rob. You might want to check your system because mine hasn't changed as far as I know."

Had a look in my inbox & the last mail from Drupal subscription system was on 27th of May.

I may be the guilty party, as I did go in to edit the message around this time.

I'll investigate via the Drupal admin interface, but has anything else happened/ been done that could have stopped the mails?

#868: Is conference15.tn.org backed up in a convenient manner?

sam — Tue, 28 Jul 2015 13:05:25 GMT

Hi Chris

I was just wondering if the conference site is backed up in such a way that it would be easy to restore?

I could set up a database backup onto some free file hosting if not?

Thanks

Sam

#873: New Wordpress site please

sam — Tue, 22 Sep 2015 12:25:12 GMT

Hi Chris

I couldn't ssh into parrot for some reason, I think you said you created me a 'sam' user on there but I can't get in.

So could you set up a new Wordpress site on there.

wpdev.tn.org or similar, it's only going to be for testing some stuff so URL doesn't really matter.

Thanks

Sam

#874: Please check & then install Georss if no problems

sam — Tue, 29 Sep 2015 13:31:02 GMT

Hi Paul

We'd like to play around with generating Georss from our current site.

Could you have a glance at the code /test https://www.drupal.org/project/georss

If it seems like it's going to be unproblematic then please install it on the live site.

Thanks

Sam

#887: Lot's of failed logins on conference15.transitionnetwork.org

sam — Fri, 04 Dec 2015 11:39:10 GMT

Hi all

Overnight I had 150 notifications of failed login attempts and subsequent IP address bans from the https://en-gb.wordpress.org/plugins/wordfence/ security plugin I installed.

It's coming from multiple IP addresses in multiple countries.

It seems like Wordfence is doing it's job and blocking IP's. I only mention it as I'm wondering if it could be related to the recent downtime.

Feel free to close this ticket, just thought it was worth sticking in here.

Thanks

Sam

#890: Site offline.

sam — Sat, 12 Dec 2015 10:54:36 GMT

It's serving a page, so may be Drupal level problem rather than server level?

https://www.transitionnetwork.org/

#909: What's involved in enabling longer Piwik reports?

sam — Thu, 10 Mar 2016 15:47:27 GMT

Hi Chris

I seem to remember you were able to make Piwik run reports longer than a couple of months by adding some RAM? Is this a virtual thing you can do remotely? Or do you have to physically visit the box to make this happen?

I'd like to run longer reports to do a bit of analysis, but not if it's going to cost loads to make it happen.

Thanks

Sam

#916: SSH to parrot please

sam — Wed, 13 Jul 2016 11:01:58 GMT

Hi Chris could you set up a SSH account on parrot please

Kevin support@…

Public SSH key attached.

Thanks

Sam

#917: Any misc files in Transition Culture web root?

sam — Thu, 14 Jul 2016 11:54:50 GMT

Hi Chris

Simon from Lumpy lemon has migrated Transition Culture.

We only have WP admin access & he was wondering:

"Just one small question: can you check in the webroot folder on your server and let me know if there are any non-WordPress files in there? e.g. Google verification files, that sort of thing. I don't think there should be, but best to check. If there are, can you send them over."

Thanks

Sam

#918: redirects?

sam — Thu, 14 Jul 2016 12:33:42 GMT

Hi Chris

All going well I think we're going to move the TN.org site to Hetzner later today.

I was just having a look through the zone file on Gandi. There's an entry:

'redirects A 81.95.52.111'

Do you know what that one does?

Thanks

Sam

#922: SSH to parrot please

sam — Thu, 28 Jul 2016 15:30:37 GMT

Hi Chris

Could I get SSH access to parrot please?

samrossiter@…

Thanks

Sam

#681: Submitting Transition event overseas: An illegal choice has been detected. Please contact the site administrator.

sam — Wed, 22 Jan 2014 12:31:29 GMT

Hi I'm using https://www.transitionnetwork.org/node/add/event

To create a Transition Training event in Belgium in the 'Limburg' region.

On submission I get the following error;

"An illegal choice has been detected. Please contact the site administrator."

It works for UK events.

I had a look at the fields in the event content type, but couldn't spot any problems

#712: Create a new stgX.transitionnetwork.org site

sam — Tue, 01 Apr 2014 15:03:53 GMT

Hi Paul

I have been trying to build a staging site using your Github repository with the changes you made for ticket : https://trac.transitionnetwork.org/trac/ticket/693

I have edited the D6 s008 platform: https://tn.puffin.webarch.net/node/1157/edit to use your makefile.

It builds a site, but I just get an empty pressflow site at the end.

Could you build a staging site using your makefile?

Thanks

Sam

#802: Slovenian state information missing / 'Not listed' will not submit

sam — Thu, 23 Oct 2014 10:20:29 GMT

User reported: "I'm trying to register our fledgling initiative based in Dovje-Mojstrana, Slovenia. When I select the country, the Province/State? box automatically comes up as not listed. But then when I press preview to be ready to send, it says "The specified province was not found in the specified country." So I can't submit the form :-( Please help! I think we will be the first official Transition town in Slovenia!"

I had a go at creating the initiative in a different country, then editing it to Slovenia as a workaround, but that didn't work either: https://www.transitionnetwork.org/node/37435/edit

Any idea's as to why it won't accept 'not listed' as a valid choice? Or what we can do about it?

Thanks

Sam