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Andrew Fletcher
Looking to install Solr on your server?  Not sure if it worth the effort?  Well, Apache Solr is the open-source, popular, super fast open source enterprise search platform from the Apache Lucene project.  Written in Java, Solr is highly scalable, providing fault-tolerant distributed search and indexing. Let's walk through the steps I went through to install Solr on Centos 7.   Step 1: Java Check if Java is installed on your server: java -versionNot there - then JAVA is the...
Andrew Fletcher
Working on a decoupled React / Drupal 9 site. Aim: Adjust the output of curated...
Andrew Fletcher
How to make React calls on a Drupal 9 backend site using the search...
Andrew Fletcher
This code is from Drupal 9 back-end for a React front-end via REST API. Working...
Andrew Fletcher
As a web developer, you will most likely need to run local copies of a bunch of...
Andrew Fletcher
Every project has to kick off somewhere.  Yep well that's a no brainer.  However, the number of projects that I've seen where the planning step has been omitted is too high.  A throughly planned out project with as many features scoped before you start coding is critical in completing a project.  Whilst projects and their requirements are always fluid, the initial critical scoping is so important. Fail to plan, planning to fail There is no one way to plan.  Yes I've seen...
Andrew Fletcher
Installing Varnish to increase the speed of the page load. Install varnish using...
Andrew Fletcher
I installed Lando 3.6.2 and Laravel 9.  When I visit the web page, I...
Andrew Fletcher
Do you want set up a CI/CD process using GitHub Actions? This is a walk-through...
Andrew Fletcher
If like me you tried the command php artisanHowever, you had the following...
Andrew Fletcher
Working in Laravel, I needed to loop through an array and know whether the current loop was odd or even row.  To do this add the expression to your Twig file: {% set direction = loop.index0 is odd ? 'left' : 'right' %}In the call above, the variable direction is set to either left or right depending on the value of the position of the loop row (loop.index0).  I then used the left or right value in a div class adding to a series of tailwind css definitions.  Such...
Andrew Fletcher
Setting up the mail configuration in October CMS is a quick progress....
Andrew Fletcher
To add ejabberd and run MYSQL to the server I needed to update the server...
Andrew Fletcher
Common commands Themes and plugins have similar command lines.  So rather...
Andrew Fletcher
At times while developing in October CMS, you will perform a step that kills the...