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By tomlock on
Hi my name is Tom and I have a drupal website for one of my small businesses.
I need help with it for both maintenance and hosting, as I have no idea how to work with Drupal or any kind of hosting situation.
I am located in Pennsylvania, on East Coast Time and would like someone I can talk to whenever needed.
The site is getting old - 2010 it was made, and has maintenance needs plus I would like to do a few improvements, and it seems now that the hosting company is going out of business so I need to move the site.
Please let me know how this could work. Thanks!
Tom in PA
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Enable your contact form
Hi Tom,
You might want to turn on your contact form so people can reach out and help you.
- Log in to drupal.org
- Go to your profile. Hit Edit, and scroll to the bottom where you'll find Personal Contact Form. Make sure it's checked and save.
Hope this helps,
- LateralUK
Hi Tom,
Hi Tom,
First thing you need to do is to take backup of your site and database from which site is hosting. Contact to your hosting company which will help you to take a backup.
Hi Tom.
Hi Tom.
Your user account here is confirmed now, so please enable your contact form.
I'm sure several of us would like to connect with you about your needs.
Cheers
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thank you, can you tell me what this is?
Hi and thanks for the advice. I have enabled the contact form, and hope someone can help me out.
Before I even get into the changes I want on the site and the hosting issue, there is something very disturbing happening that I need to address immediately. When my site opens up, there is a very large pink box full of error messages that makes every page look horrible, and makes the site hard to navigate. The start of that message is below. I think it's probably something quick and easy to fix... I just have no idea where to do it. Thanks in advance!
Here's the start of message (it goes on for a long time):
warning: date(): It is not safe to rely on the system's timezone settings. You are *required* to use the date.timezone setting or the date_default_timezone_set() function. In case you used any of those methods and you are still getting this warning, you most likely misspelled the timezone identifier. We selected 'America/Chicago' for 'CDT/-5.0/DST' instead in /var/www/vhosts/thejtx/sites/all/modules/token/token_node.inc on line 40.
warning: date(): It is not safe to rely on the system's timezone settings. You are *required* to use the date.timezone setting or the date_default_timezone_set() function. In case you used any of those methods and you are still getting this warning, you most likely misspelled the timezone identifier. We selected 'America/Chicago' for 'CDT/-5.0/DST' instead in /var/www/vhosts/thejtx/sites/all/modules/token/token_node.inc on line 41.
warning: date(): It is not safe to rely on the system's timezone settings. You are *required* to use the.....
There are two issues here
There are two issues here (and it's not clear what version of Drupal you're running - I'm guessing 6...?)
To set your site's timezone, go to admin/settings/date-time and pick an appropriate timezone.
If you'd like errors not to be written to the screen, go to /admin/settings/error-reporting and use the popup menu to tell Drupal to write errors to the log only.
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thanks so much
Really appreciate this!
But I also really don't know much about the back end of the site.
I found the date-time area, for changing the time zone, which I did, but it didn't seem to change anything overall - same huge pink messages on the screens.
couldn't find the error-reporting area at all...
how do I know what version of drupal I am running?
We should probably move this
We should probably move this to one of the support forums - such as Post-Installation (https://www.drupal.org/forum/22)
Please open a new thread there so that we can keep this forum focused on requests for paid engagements.
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you're right, and thanks!
I should/would move this to the proper area of the forum, but actually it is still a request for someone to do maintenance on my site, and hopefully to find a hosting service that will work for me. So that part is PAID. But right now I have an immediate need to find out what's wrong and fix it ASAP. That's why I am going for the error messages first. Once that's done, I will need to hire a site manager and hosting service.