Alex I know everything's transient, but transient's ok. For now... (Heading home against the commuters' flow) 5 days ago
(I’m jotting a lot down here today, mainly work-related geeky notes to myself. Feel free to ignore… ;o)
This morning, while demo-ing the development site I’m working on at the moment, I was horrified to see that all the CSS had vanished, leaving me with a very bare and broken-looking site.
The problem turned out to be caused by Drupal’s “calendar popup” module, and disabling that module seems to have returned everything to normal, but of course now I don’t have a calendar popup on date fields. Very frustrating…
Posted by Alex on Thu 26th March 2009
I’ve been having a problem for the last couple of weeks with the Drupal website I’ve been working on where the webserver couldn’t resolve any external URLs, which meant that the website couldn’t check for updates, send e-mails, or access anything on the internet because it couldn’t resolve web addresses through DNS. Drupal was reporting the error “HTTP status request status: fails”.
The problem was in PHP only – command line nslookups and pings were working fine, and I was completely stumped.
It turns out that the problem was caused by a DNS server failure we had a little while back and, while the server came back online very quickly, Apache wasn’t able to get itself together.
To fix it, all I had to do was issue the following two commands at the command line:
… and voila – all working again.
What a pain in the arse… ;o)
Posted by Alex on Thu 26th March 2009