- App backend reliability How a business keeps the Exponential installation behind its app, portal or partner integration available - what can make the API unavailable, health checks, maintenance windows that answer 503, rate limits, caching…
- Approval before publishing How to make every transparency publication wait for a second person's approval in Exponential: the Approve workflow event, the trigger, the cronjob, and how approvers and authors see pending items.
- Assign a role with a section limitation Step by step - give a user group an existing role only for the content of one section (for example an internal or restricted section), with Assign with limitation, and check the result.
- Check that cronjobs run Step by step - confirm the scheduled jobs of the site run - the crontab entries, the cards and recent runs on Setup > Cronjobs, the workflow status bar, the system information check - and install the proposed crontab…
- Check the project's release and security history Step by step, check for yourself how often Exponential is released, how security issues are handled and how changes are documented - from the tags, the changelogs, SECURITY.md and the hardening records in the repository…
- Content ownership The difference between the technical owner of a content object in Exponential and the organizational owner a public body names for each page, how to record the second, and how to hand content over when people or…
- Data location and what is stored where For public bodies that must know and document where the data of an Exponential site is kept. Every place the software stores content, files, accounts, logs and keys, which of them hold personal data, and what leaves the…
- Evaluating security evidence in a CMS bid How a security specialist on an evaluation panel judges a bid based on Exponential - the documented OWASP mapping, the defaults that need changing, the disclosure and release process, what is not evidenced (ASVS…
- FAQ: migration from older systems Answers to the migration questions public bodies ask - moving from older eZ Publish era sites, from eZ Platform or Ibexa, or from other systems such as WordPress, Drupal or static HTML to Exponential, what is kept, what…
- Feeds for new and changed datasets Set up an RSS 2.0 or Atom feed that lists the newest datasets of the catalog in Setup > RSS, choose which fields become title and description, and check what re-users receive.
- Forwarding the audit trail to a SIEM For public bodies with a central security operations function - how to send Exponential's audit records to a SIEM or log collector with the syslog sink (UDP, TCP, TLS) and the signed webhook sink, which channels to…
- Graceful deploys How to ship changes to a live Exponential site without dropping visitors' requests or serving stale pages, what the one-command deploy does, and the rules a business should set for when and how changes go live.
- Installing, then and now: the files, the database, the virtual host What the Learning book's first chapter had you do by hand (unpack, create a database, write a virtual host, set up images and cron, read the ini files), and what each step is in Exponential 6.
- Intranet rollout checklist A checklist for rolling out an Exponential intranet, from the first test installation through permissions, sign-in, content migration, notifications and operations to the day staff are invited and the first review after…
- Log retention For administrators of public sites - how Exponential rotates and prunes its logs, the age limits that ship for 404, security and CSP logs, why other kernel logs have none by default, and how to set MaxAgeDays per log…
- Maintenance mode and planned downtime For public bodies that must announce and control planned downtime of a website. How Exponential's maintenance mode answers visitors with a 503 page and an expected end, who still gets in, how monitoring and search…
- MariaDB for hosts MariaDB as the database of an Exponential site, from a host's point of view: the shared mysqli driver, utf8mb4 and InnoDB, the grants a site's user needs, settings, installing, the connection character set, backups and…
- Mass content error Runbook for a large mistake in content - a subtree removed, a wrong section or state set on many pages, a bulk import gone wrong, an announcement published too early - with the trash, version history, content jobs, the…
- On-premise or cloud hosting for an Exponential site A comparison of running an Exponential site in your own data center, on a private or public cloud, or with a managed host - what each model needs from the software, which costs move where, data location and control, and…
- Operations and monitoring requirements Requirement wording for running a public CMS day to day - monitoring, logs, scheduled jobs, caches, maintenance windows, upgrades and health checks - with the Exponential tools and pages that a supplier's answer should…
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