Adding Solr config zip (ie. solr_8.x_config.zip) to your remote server.  In this instance I'll be adding Solr config to a AWS EC2 server.

Log in to your remote server, then as you need to work as root type:

sudo su

Go to your solr directory:

cd /var/solr/

If you don't know the location of your solr directory run:

You can create a new date/time format by navigating to:

Admin -> Configuration -> Regional and Language -> Date and Time format and click on 'Add Format'.

Once you’ve created date format, you can control the way date is displayed on the node using preprocess function.

In {theme_name}.theme file, add the following lines

To assist in finding possible solutions some of the queries that I made include:

• Drupal 9 pager with items_per_page
• Drupal 9 pager merged with exposed form items_per_page

Having access to a site’s URL in your templates can come in handy for many different use cases, such as determining if your on the admin/people page as apposed to admin/reports/dblog or admin/content.  These three pages might seem to bear on common relationship, however there is at least one.  Users.

I edited the user in the admin/people page so rather than showing just username, know shows:

This short guide explains to you how to extract/unzip .zip archive files to a specific or different directory in Linux.

Install zip

sudo apt-get install zip

Zip a directory

Zip your folder:

zip -r {filename.zip} {directory}

Unzip 

unzip {filename.zip}

By default the maximum file upload size is set to 2MB.  It is not a Drupal issue, instead a php issue as upload_max_filesize is set in your php configuration (php.ini file).  Therefore it is a server-side configuration.

Creating a message log using Drupal watchdog.

Simple log

// Logs a notice
\Drupal::logger('my_module')->notice($message);
// Logs an error
\Drupal::logger('my_module')->error($message);

Adding a layer of complexity to the log

public function submitForm(array &$form, FormStateInterface $form_state) {
    $entity = $this->getEntity();
    $entity->delete();

I'm receiving an error with a path of Drupal\path_alias\AliasManager

Upgrading to Drupal 9, I was running a test to see which blocks and/or modules would fail.  And there were plenty... like this AliasManager error

In this article, you will learn how to send a newsletter using Acy Mailing 5.

Access to Acy Mailing 5

This is screen accessible via the administration area: Select Components → Acy Mailing 5 → Newsletters from the drop-down menus.

In this article, I'll show you how to review a newsletter's statistics for newsletters sent with Acy Mailing 5.