Submitted by Martin Kos Walder on 22/04/2019 - 00:25.
Satellite 4

Hi

I have upgraded the multi-site Satellie instances of the Switzerland Sections (by replacing everything beside the /sites directory and running the drush pmupdate) and i got for every site the warning about missing modules, which are: advanced_help, esnsatellite and install.

Whereas for some of the sections i get the missing modules "content_page"

It seems like they have been previously included in the satellite default installation and have been remove in the latest version? Was there a specific reason to remove them and shall I add them or should i remove any references to it?

(And for the sql multi-byte warning i haven't had a look yet: "4 byte UTF-8 for mysql is not activated, but it is supported on your system. It is recommended that you enable this to allow 4-byte UTF-8 input such as emojis, Asian  [warning]
symbols and mathematical symbols to be stored correctly. See the documentation on adding 4 byte UTF-8 support for more information. (Currently using Database 4 byte UTF-8 support Not enabled)")

greets

 KoS

Answers

Submitted by Marco von Frieling on

Hello Martin,

about the missing modules:
- esnsatellite and install are not missing, but I don't know why you get the warning. I get it on some sites but not on others. install actually is only needed for installing a fresh Satellite.
- advanced_help and help_example are missing by accident but that shouldn't affect you, as they're only relevant if you installed the site in development mode and actually develop for Satellite. But you shouldn't enable the development mode for production sites. They will be added with the next release 4.6.14.
- I don't remember being used by Satellite which means it has been added by the site maintainer. But I'm not sure and will check the next week.

Regarding the 4 byte UTF-8 support, you can enable it if your database server supports it,but you must not. This is a setting we cannot set by default because not all servers/web hosters support it. And for existing sites it requires some transformation of existing database tables and their contents. Please follow the linked tutorial for enabling it.

The next version 4.6.14 which also includes the latest security update of Drupal Core is almost done except adding the mentioned missing modules (WLAN at AGM Thessaloniki fucked up when I wanted to do that), some finalisation steps and testing.