Posted on September 25, 2009 - 14:20 by Robert Douglass.
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The S-Files are a taste of the support that you get with a subscription to Acquia Support. Our support team helps you solve technical problems relating to your Drupal sites.
The Acquia Drupal Stack installer is a major productivity booster for getting up and running in the development of your Drupal site. Sometimes, though, Drupal modules like to cache huge data packets in the database. This results in an error in your browser that says this:
Got packet bigger than ‘max_allowed_packet’ bytes
This is an indication that the data being sent between Drupal and the database is large, and exceeds the default setting.
Fortunately the fix for this is easy. In the application installation directory of the stack installer you'll find the following directory and file:
Edit the my.ini file with whatever text editor you like, and add these lines to the end:
#Max packets max_allowed_packet = 128M
Now stop and start the Acquia Drupal Stack using the Acquia Drupal Control Panel, and the new setting will come into effect. This should solve your max_allowed_packet problem!
Posted on September 25, 2009 - 13:08 by Robert Douglass.
The Acquia Drupal Stack installer for Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) has been released, and it’s pretty cool (works on 10.5 Leopard, too, of course). I’m now using it as my primary development environment, replacing MAMP. In this article I show how you can configure the stack installer to use XDebug for step through debugging.
I've set up Acquia Drupal on IIS 6, Win 2003, 1GB RAM VM server with multisites. Everything is working great. Acquia Drupal is fantastic, I like it tons.
Question: when installing MySQL 5.1, after reading everything I could find on Drupal.org, this site, and Sun's website, I finally went with the recommendation on Sun's site to install Mysql with mixed Myisam and Innodb, as there seem to be so many differing opinions on which is best for Drupal. I also read "Achieving Optimal Mysql Performance for Drupal".
Posted on October 29, 2008 - 14:51 by Josh Miller.
This is a common problem, so I'm sure I'm searching for the wrong things, but does anyone know where to find a stable module that will allow me to include children forms on parent node forms?
If I were, for instance, creating a recipe and wanted to add main ingredients from the same form.
CCK multi-fields would be adequate if each "field" could have multiple "fields" or could just create nodes instead of simple associated information.
Posted on January 31, 2008 - 02:26 by Jeff Whatcott.
Sandro Groganz has an interesting post where he attempts to calculate the value of the MySQL brand as a component of the acquisition price Sun paid. Here's the punch line: "As of today, a whopping 85% of MySQL’s economic value added can be attributed to its strong Open Source brand." I haven't checked Sandro's math in detail, but it's clear that brand is a huge component of the value of MySQL."
