Articles tagged with "devel"

If you don't have access to the file system on the server for a Drupal site, when a security issue like Drupalgeddon2 comes along, you are entitled to panic! Many sites are run by a combination of teams, so sometimes you really don't have control over the server... but that might even mean there is another way to apply fixes. If you've been tasked with updating such a site (I was!), it's worth checking if the server has been misconfigured in such a way to actually allow you to patch Drupal, via Drupal!

A heavy caveat first: we would never...

There are a number of scenarios where you might want to log email being sent by Drupal; perhaps locally during development or for urgent debugging on a live site. There are a number of options available for Drupal email logging, and this article will cover four of the most common
ways:

• Using Devel module.
• Drupal logging modules: Maillog/Mail Developer, Mail Logger
• Drupal re-routing modules: Reroute Email, Advanced Mail Reroute
• SMTP server redirection

We'll look at the main pro's, con's and technical overhead involved in
each. I won't go into too much technical detail about setting things up, but...