Troubleshooting Drupal

Something more in-depth than the handbook page at http://drupal.org/node/72108 with outlines of approaches for different Drupal competencies.

• • philosophy of troubleshooting website problems in general

    • assumption of lots of moving parts

    • you're not building something, but rather something went wrong, and you're trying to figure out why

  • which layer to look at first?

  • how to recommend a fix?

  • where to look for logs, and what the logs mean

  • documenting for the next time something like it comes up

    • throw it on Drupal.org no matter how esoteric

    • you don't need to use client names, website URLs. example.com, etc. is usually fine

      • what you did

      • what you expected

      • what happened instead

      • what you did to fix it

  • a pamphlet per Drupal competency

    • modules (PHP)

    • Views

    • themes

    • Panels/Contexts/etc.