Category Archives: Midgard CMS

The Warden’s day to day experiences with Midgard CMS.

Midgard 1.7rc1 – Datagard Issues

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I had to re-do my server. Once the server was re-done I started putting Midgard back on but experienced issues with datagard. This is in regards to Midgard 1.7rc1. Below is the errors I keep getting to complete the installation of Midgard by install the database. I’ve found one error in my apache log but haven’t found a solution. I’ve logged everything from configuration to installation of Midgard in files using script. Let me know who can help. I’m willing to pay for consulting service to resolve this problem.

Datagard Error

grep: /usr/local/midgard-1.7rc1/var/log/datagard.log: No such file or directory
mv: rename /tmp/datagard.log to /usr/local/midgard-1.7rc1/var/log/: No such file or directory

Trying to create mysql database and blobs dir.
wait….

Updating database: multilang
repligard-Message: Reading config file /usr/local/midgard-1.7rc1/etc/midgard/repligard.conf
repligard-Message: Importing /usr/local/midgard-1.7rc1/share/midgard/languages.xml
repligard in free(): error: modified (chunk-) pointer
/usr/local/midgard-1.7rc1/share/midgard/datagard/lib.postinst: line 604: 859 Abort trap (core dumped) $MGD_USR_PATH/bin/repligard -c $MGD_CONFIG_PATH/repligard.conf -i $MGD_SHARE_PATH/languages.xml

Can not import languages.xml

Apache Error_log

/usr/sbin/httpd:/usr/lib/apache/modules/libphp4.so: /usr/local/lib/libmysqlclient.so.12.0 : WARNING: symbol(client_errors) size mismatch, relink your program
/usr/sbin/httpd:/usr/lib/apache/modules/libphp4.so: /usr/local/lib/libmysqlclient.so.12.0 : WARNING: symbol(default_directories) size mismatch, relink your program
/usr/sbin/httpd:/usr/lib/apache/modules/libphp4.so: /usr/local/lib/libmysqlclient.so.12.0 : WARNING: symbol(globerrs) size mismatch, relink your program

Photographer Maciej Pokora

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I came across this amazing photographer Maciej Pokora. Which turns out, his the brother of Piotr Pokora whom I deal with on the Midgard Project. I would recommend to check out Maciej Pokora photographs at ALTphotos.com. My favorite ones are Silence… and the one untitled of Piotr and his daughter. I would love to have a photograph of my daughter and I like that. I can’t describe it any better then there amazing photographs.

PEAR: Command Not Found

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I recently installed PHP 4.3.11 from source (due to configuration requirements) on to an OpenBSD i386 v3.7 server. The installation went perfectly as it has many times before, however I found out that the PEAR script was not installed (normally in /usr/local/bin). I discovered this when trying to install some pear packages doing “pear install packagename”. I get a returned error of “-bash: pear: command not found”. I tried locating the PEAR script using “find / -name pear” and “/usr/libexec/locate.updatedb” then “locate -i pear”. The result came up empty with no PEAR script in the returned results. I double checked the PEAR documents, PHP documents and ./configure all three places stated PEAR is installed by default unless a parameter is provided at configure with –without-pear. I’m still not aware as to why the PEAR script was not installed however with help by SmallOne of #midgard I was able to resolve the problem manually. Here’s how it was resolved at the shell prompt.

  • # cp pear.sh /usr/local/bin/pear
  • # chmod 755 /usr/local/bin/pear

If anyone knows how the PEAR script could not have been installed please let me know, thanks.

Midgard – AIS Theme

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Midgard CMS - AIS Theme

Hi everyone. I know there has been a few people waiting for me to post about this. I apologize for such a delay. I’ve been really busy at work and consulting work is crazy right now. I have one screen done and I wanted to do one more for this first theme. For now I’ll give it post and see what everyone has to say. I said I’ll make something and I will. The theme has the same look/feel as midgard-project.org, but I like it. It’s original and it works. I just wanted to achieve more with the orientation of the data presented. I have a better solution on I believe for the orientation of the data. I’ll try to do that soon. Anyways enough babble… here’s the mock up theme I’ve done.

Please send in your comments, suggestions or directions.

Updated Midgard Activities

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It’s been awhile since I was able to work on my project of taking an existing site and converting it over to Midgard CMS along with web site improvements. I was put on to other projects temporally. Now I’m back on working with Midgard CMS. I’ve completed updating Midgard CMS and MidCOM. I’ve started to document my upgrading experience in my Midgard CMS Installation Guide for OpenBSD. You should soon seen an updated release of this guide shortly. Starting next week I will continue my development and on going documentation. I’m going to document as much as possible.

In my spare time I’ve started working on user interface concept designs for Midgard Administrative Interface System (AIS). I’ve pretty much completed one concept design and I want to complete one more before I release anything. I’m creating these user interface concept designs in Photoshop CS so I will be posting the concepts in jpeg (800px x 600px) once I’m completed. The design concepts will be standard compliant using XHTML/CSS/WCAG and fluid to fit any video resolution or browser window size. Let’s see lots of feedback people, I want to get these UIs perfect.