Managing your own Drupal Download Site

The other day, I was thinking, it would be nice if I could find the way to manage my own download site so people who use my modules that I do not provide directly on http://drupal.org would still show as expected (i.e. Green in the update window).

I found this page about it: http://drupal.org/node/210984

This is done by creating a service in your Drupal environment. You should use the ready made script named:

I have been wondering, for a while, why is it that I get errors about DEFLATE no being known.

  [Sun Apr 11 22:41:23 2010] [error] an unknown filter was not added: DEFLATE
  [Sun Apr 11 22:48:54 2010] [error] an unknown filter was not added: DEFLATE
  [Sun Apr 11 22:50:23 2010] [error] an unknown filter was not added: DEFLATE

I should have thought of it, the deflate module was not installed. That was it, but oh well... 8-)

To tweak your Apache setup, use the following two lines:

Today we again ran in an out of memory error. As we are adding more websites our foot print is growing... Our servers use a VPS that has limited resources and whenever the limit is reached, the system automatically kills processes. How the VPS selects the process to kill isn't clear to me, but twice it has been our database manager meaning that all of a sudden all the websites stop working.

So... We got an extra bit of RAM because our package allowed it, but that's still small.

Since my last upgrade, I had many small things that went awry on my computer. From tsearch2 in a Postgres database to ownership of files to the following authentication problem:

root@mycomputer:~# su - www-data
su: Authentication service cannot retrieve authentication info
(Ignored)
www-data@mycomputer:~$

Note that with su it ignores the fact. With cron it was not being ignored, so I'd get no work done!