GlueBox Technology

Drupal 10 Site Building Notes

It's almost Theme Time, but before we begin with the fun stuff, there are a few server items that need to be set up.  Outbound email is the hardest piece, so we're going to get help from AI and we'll put the notes here to share. 

  • PHP versions - 
    // php8.1 is already the newest version (8.1.27-4+ubuntu22.04.1+deb.sury.org+1)
    WARNING: add-apt-repository is broken with non-UTF-8 locales, see
    https://github.com/oerdnj/deb.sury.org/issues/56 for workaround:
    # LC_ALL=C.UTF-8 add-apt-repository ppa:ondrej/php
    Current Drupal PHP Requirements 
    Setup Notes: 
    Credits: php.watch php-8.3-install-upgrade-on-debian-ubuntu
    //  apt install php8.3 php8.3-cli php8.3-{bz2,curl,mbstring,intl}
    //  apt install --reinstall libapache2-mod-
    // apt install php8.3-mysql
    // apt install php8.3-xml
    // apt install php8.3-gd
    // apt install imagemagick php8.3-imagick
     

    Ubuntu Status

     

  • Email - MX,SPF, DKIM, DMARC, Postfix SMTP
     

    Mail Setup

    DKIM passing test validation with Gmail.

    Passing Google Mail

  • File Security
    Media embed  for CKE Install Readme (https://www.drupal.org)
    Ckeditor Media Embed Issues/3393693
    Patch for Media Embed Error:
    "There are no commands defined in the "ckeditor_media_embed" namespace."

    Additional notes on setting up the Text Editor Experience for Content Editors: Gluebox.com Text Editor Review Notes.
     

    CKEditor Toolbar Button Review, and Drupal Media Embed


     

  • Backups:  design/backup_script
  • Logging

  • Tripwires
    fail2ban
    Alias /nice_try /usr/share/phpmyadmin

    gluebox

    Setting Site Name using Apache Variable:
     

    Because we're on Apache, we can grab the inbound Domain Name above Drupal, at the Webserver.  Apache Domain Name variables map  to our Site Names in our Drupal settings.php file.

    Pros

    Apache Virtual Hosts (sites) keep Drupal organized by enforcing a "Site Variable" within Drupal. 
    Works well for small organizations with compartmentalized departments.  
     

    Cons

    Hard to scale up beyond a small organization, must be managed in Apache config files.

    Considerations


     

    $domain_name = $_SERVER['DOMAIN_NAME'] ?? NULL;
        // Set the domain name default if DOMAIN_NAME is empty.
        if (empty($domain_name)) {
          $domain_name = "gluebox.com";
        }
        putenv("DOMAIN_NAME=$domain_name");
        $site_name = '';
        switch ($domain_name) {
          case 'snowmaid.com':
            $site_name = 'SnowMaid';
            break;
          case 'dangercactus.com':
            $site_name = 'Danger Cactus';
            break;
          case 'gluebox.com':
            $site_name = 'GlueBox Technology';
            break;
          case 'happyplant.lol':
            $site_name = 'Happy Plant LOL';
            break;
          default:
            $site_name = 'GlueBox Technology';
            break;
        }

Setting up recipes with Drupal 10.x-dev https://git.drupalcode.org/project/distributions_recipes/-/blob/1.0.x/docs/getting_started.md

Robots.txt Note

Stopping Robot Crawlers from ingesting too much, or causing chaos with pager links.
# Pager links
Disallow: /*?page=
Disallow: /*&page= 

New Stuff for Drupal 10.x / 11.x

Same Page Preview, coming to Drupal Core (?)
https://www.drupal.org/project/same_page_preview

Nice Recipe to Study:
https://gitlab.com/kevinquillen/drupal-base/-/blob/1.0.x/recipe.yml?ref_type=heads