Drupal

Upgrading your Drupal 9 base system in two ways

botond published March 2021, 02, Thu - 25:23 time
There have been several base system updates for Drupal 9 CMS in recent weeks, so it's worth reviewing its update mechanism as before for the Drupal 8 update. In this description, I'm going to update the Drupal 10 website installed on the Debian 9 (Buster) perfect server from 9.1.2 to 9.1.4, so here we now jump to several versions at once. There are two ways to do this: first with a composer, and then look at the manual update.

Installing and setting up Drupal 9 CMS system

botond published 2021/01/10, v - 16:43 time
Drupal is a free CMS written in PHP, the latest major version of which is 9, released on June 2020, 3. From now on, Drupal 8.9 will only receive fix packs, and support for Drupal 8, from which this page was made, will end on November 2021, 2, so I need to upgrade this page to major version 9 by now at the latest. To get acquainted, I’m making a fresh Drupal 9 installation and looking around so I don’t have to rush at the last minute to see which module will be compatible with it, how much I need to vary the page, and so on. And if I’m already installing, I’ll make a little description of it as well to see if I can provide useful info to others. I have previously prepared a guide for installing Drupal 8, in this description we will install the current release of major version 9.

How to remove index.php parts from the URLs of our Drupal based CMS system

botond published 2020/09/26, Sat - 13:43 time
Drupal is an open source, free CMS (content management) system that can be used to build a wide variety of websites, such as this site. It has many features, including support for managing SEO URLs, which is notoriously beneficial for search engines. As elsewhere, unfortunately, errors can occur here, such as index.php files being unduly included in page URLs. In this short little troubleshooter, we'll look at how to remove these unnecessary index.php parts from URLs.

Upgrading the Drupal base system to 8.8

botond published Jan. 2019, 12, 18:15 p.m. time
On December 2019, 4, Drupal released its currently latest base system, 8.8.0. We’ve talked about how to easily upgrade the Drupal base system before, but more has changed in this release, so we need to get a little deeper into things. So in this description we will look at how to upgrade our Drupal base system from 8.7.10 to 8.8.0.