Drupal

Join the Hong Kong Drupal User Group for the September 15 meetup. We will focus on setting up your own virtual hosting environment with Virtualmin (http://www.virtualmin.com/), moreover how to tweak your website performance based on YSlow (http://developer.yahoo.com/yslow/) analyzes and suggestion. Special thanks to CNNGo.com once again offered us use of their office in Quarry Bay.

The Hong Kong Drupal User Group are open to everyone with an interest in Drupal and are a great opportunity to learn more about what Drupal can do and what folks are building with it.

Here are the meetup details so far:

• (40 mins, by Edison) Live demo of Virtualmin + Debian Squeeze setup for Drupal virtual hosting.
• (40 mins, by Edison) Live demo of website performance tweaking based on YSlow anaylyes and suggestion.
• (20 mins, by volunteers) If you've got a tough problem that you'd like some different perspectives on, let's share it - Please kindly propose your problem here so we will able to prepare in advance.
• Your idea here - Suggestions welcome - Feel free to comment on this post or contact us directly!

Logistics:

• Date: 2011-09-15
• Time: 19:00 - 21:00+
• Location: 30/F, Oxford House, Taikoo Place, 979 King's Road, Quarry Bay, Hong Kong (http://goo.gl/maps/sdDs)
• Cost: FREE
• RSVP: http://groups.drupal.org/node/173639
• Contact: hswong3i [at] pantarei-design [dot] com, +852-9853-0636
• Official hashtag: #hkdug

Schedule (TBC):

• 19:00 ~ 19:10: Kick-off Session. Introduce yourself; enjoy with free pizza and drinks :-)
• 19:10 ~ 19:50: First Session. Live demo of Virtualmin + Debian Squeeze setup for Drupal virtual hosting.
• 19:50 ~ 20:00: Break. Free feel to share your Drupal question/knowledge/idea with each other!
• 20:00 ~ 20:40: Second Session. Live demo of website performance tweaking based on YSlow anaylyes and suggestion
• 20:40 ~ 21:00: Q&A Session. Don't wait and let us know about your issues :D
• 21:00 ~ 22:30: After event drinks. A 5mins walk from Oxford House, we'll have a cafe sharing section with a free drink at East End Brewery (http://bit.ly/foF3Mg).

Sponsorship:

• CNNGo.com, for meeting room reservation.
• PantaRei Design Limited, for after event drinks.
• There are sponsorship opportunities still available. Email kpyan0l [at] pantarei-design [dot] com for details.

Volunteer:

• Volunteers wanted, contact hswong3i [at] pantarei-design [dot] com to help.

Join the Hong Kong Drupal User Group for the June 2 meetup. This meetup will focus on Search Engine Optimization (SEO) + Drupal 6.x/7.x backend. Is honorable to invite Mr. Eddie Choi, Managing Director of FrontiersDigital (F-D), to give us some SEO tips from macro e-marketing point of view. Special thanks to CNNGo.com once again offered us use of their office in Quarry Bay.

Mr. Eddie Choi ^_[1],[2],[3] had been invited to speak for many marketing conferences in Asia, conducted numerous private workshops held by the government and commercial organizations in Asia, specialty is search and social marketing particularly with a deep understanding of the market in China, too.

The Hong Kong Drupal User Group are open to everyone with an interest in Drupal and are a great opportunity to learn more about what Drupal can do and what folks are building with it.

Here are the meetup details so far:

• SEO tips from macro e-marketing point of view.
• How's Drupal 6.x/7.x SEO related functionality can boost your website overall traffic.
• Live website demo of Drupal SEO related functionality.

Logistics:

• Date: 2011-06-02
• Time: 19:00 - 21:00+
• Location: 30/F, Oxford House, Taikoo Place, 979 King's Road, Quarry Bay, Hong Kong (http://goo.gl/maps/sdDs)
• Cost: FREE
• RSVP: http://groups.drupal.org/node/152029
• Contact: hswong3i [at] pantarei-design [dot] com, +852 9853 0636
• Official hashtag: #hkdug

Schedule (TBC):

• 19:00 ~ 19:10: Kick-off Session. Introduce yourself; enjoy with free pizza and drinks :-)
• 19:10 ~ 19:30: First Session. SEO tips from macro e-marketing point of view.
• 19:30 ~ 19:50: Second Session. How's Drupal 6.x/7.x SEO related functionality can speed up your website overall traffic.
• 19:50 ~ 20:20: Break. Feel free to ask your question and our volunteers will give you a hand!
• 20:20 ~ 20:40: Third Session. Live website demo of Drupal SEO related functionality.
• 20:40 ~ 21:00: Q&A Session. Don't wait and let us know about your issues :D
• 21:00 ~ 22:30: After event drinks. A 5mins walk from Oxford House, we'll have a cafe sharing section with a free drink at East End Brewery (http://bit.ly/foF3Mg).

Sponsorship:

• CNNGo.com, for meeting room reservation.
• FrontiersDigital, for SEO tips presentation.
• PantaRei Design Limited, for after event drinks.
• There are sponsorship opportunities still available. Email mhyiu4c [at] pantarei-design [dot] com for details.

Volunteer:

• Volunteers wanted, contact hswong3i [at] pantarei-design [dot] com to help.

Join the Hong Kong Drupal User Group for the April 21 meetup. During last March 30 Meetup we have a quick review of Drupal 7.x Zen 3.x subtheme development with live demo; this time we will change the meetup as "side-by-side, step-by-step workshop" style. Special thanks to CNNGo.com once again offered us use of their office in Quarry Bay.

The Hong Kong Drupal User Group are open to everyone with an interest in Drupal and are a great opportunity to learn more about what Drupal can do and what folks are building with it.

Here are the meetup details so far:

• The target of the workshop is to provide a brief example and idea of HOWTO create your own Drupal 7.x Zen 3.x subtheme.
• You may use your own design besides example provided as below (BTW, you may need to request volunteers to give you a hand).
• Please prepare your own Drupal 7.x setup before join the meeting (e.g. install XAMPP in your notebook and setup with Drupal 7.x).
• Please follow Edison's HOWTO Create Zen 7.x-3.x Subtheme in Step-by-step (Part 1, Part 2), trial and error, and prepare your question before meeting (We will try to shorten the workshop section into Q&A style if possible).
• Your idea here - Suggestions welcome - Feel free to comment on this post or contact us directly!
• Don't forget that we need AS MANY VOLUNTEERS AS POSSIBLE! We hope to have a 1-on-1 assistance style. Please check below for more information ;-)

Logistics:

• Date: 2011-04-21
• Time: 19:00 - 21:00+
• Location: 30/F, Oxford House, Taikoo Place, 979 King's Road, Quarry Bay, Hong Kong (http://goo.gl/maps/sdDs)
• Cost: FREE
• RSVP: http://groups.drupal.org/node/142769
• Contact: hswong3i [at] pantarei-design [dot] com, +852 9853 0636
• Official hashtag: #hkdug

Schedule (TBC):

• 19:00 ~ 19:10: Kick-off Session. Introduce yourself; enjoy with free pizza and drinks :-)
• 19:10 ~ 19:30: First Session. A quick introduction of workflow.
• 19:30 ~ 19:50: Second Session. Start development and work out the changes.
• 19:50 ~ 20:20: Break. Feel free to ask your question and our volunteers will give you a hand!
• 20:20 ~ 20:40: Third Session. Some finishing and polishing (As much as we can, refer to time restriction).
• 20:40 ~ 21:00: Q&A Session. Don't wait and let us know about your issues :D
• 21:00 ~ 22:30: After event drinks. A 5mins walk from Oxford House, we'll have a cafe sharing section with a free drink at East End Brewery (http://bit.ly/foF3Mg).

Sponsorship:

• CNNGo.com, for meeting room reservation.
• PantaRei Design Limited, for after event drinks.
• There are sponsorship opportunities still available. Email mhyiu4c [at] pantarei-design [dot] com for details.

Volunteer:

• Volunteers wanted, contact hswong3i [at] pantarei-design [dot] com to help.
• With Zen development experience recommended.
• With general XHTML/CSS experience recommended.

During revamp and reinstall with my server I decide to update my Drupal 7.x blog's folder under my own ~/public_html, e.g. ~/public_html/edin.no-ip.com/. BTW this also generate another issue which conflict with Apache mod_userdir setup, as my ~/public_html will able to access from http://edin.no-ip.com/~hswong3i/.

OK a quick checklist of my setup (under Debian Squeeze):

• /home/users/hswong3i/: My $HOME directory
• /home/users/hswong3i/public_html/: My public_html for mod_userdir
• /home/users/hswong3i/public_html/edin.no-ip.com/: My blog's http://edin.no-ip.com/ DocumentRoot (Drupal 7.x)
• /etc/apache2/sites-available/edin.no-ip.com: My static VirtualHost setup for domain http://edin.no-ip.com/, which point the DocumentRoot to "/home/users/hswong3i/public_html/edin.no-ip.com/", and symlink to /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/500-edin.no-ip.com for activation (Well, the content of this file is not funny so let's forget it...)
• /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/userdir.conf: Enabled for all mod_userdir access to /home/users/*/public_html/

And my target:

• http://edin.no-ip.com/: Direct access to my blog without anything special
• http://edin.no-ip.com/~hswong3i: Direct access to my public_html without anything special
• http://*/~hswong3i/edin.no-ip.com/: Will ALWAYS forward to http://edin.no-ip.com/ (Oh! See, this is the problem! We will able to access http://*/~hswong3i/edin.no-ip.com/ DIRECTLY!)

So Here is my solution:

• Edit /home/users/hswong3i/public_html/edin.no-ip.com/.htaccess
• Add the following lines under "RewriteEngine on": RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^edin\.no-ip\.com$ [NC] RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://edin.no-ip.com/$1 [L,R=301] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/~hswong3i/edin.no-ip.com/(.*)$ RewriteRule ^ http://edin.no-ip.com/$1 [L,R=301]
• So now test with different domain name and directory pattern.

That's it :D