- Capacity planning For public-sector IT teams sizing servers for an Exponential site. The figures the repository actually states (memory limits, Velocity workers, OPcache, disk thresholds, measured cache throughput), what drives load, how…
- Card payments and PCI The store owner's card security routine for an Exponential store - knowing where card numbers are typed, the yearly questions for your payment provider, what to check after changes, and the special care an on-site card…
- Configuration under version control For public-sector IT teams that must control and trace every change to a live site. How to keep Exponential's code and settings in version control, lock the administration against settings changes with…
- Content Security Policy for public sites For public bodies - what Exponential's Content Security Policy does, how it is shipped (report-only on the administration, off on public sites), where violation reports go, and why enforcing it is worth the effort for a…
- Exporting content For public bodies that hand content to a records system, an archive or a new platform - the export routes Exponential offers (content object packages, PDF export, the REST API, RSS, form and account CSVs, audit exports)…
- Exporting content as CSV, JSON or XML How to turn content held in Exponential (registers, lists of service points, directories kept as content objects) into open data files: the xrowextract Export tab and its commands, the kernel's exp:ezcsvexport, and the…
- External uptime monitoring Checking a public website from outside, as citizens reach it - which addresses to check, what counts as healthy, how maintenance windows look to a monitor, certificate expiry, and reporting availability honestly.
- FAQ: integrations and APIs Answers to the integration questions public bodies ask about Exponential - the REST API, personal API keys, OAuth, RSS feeds, remote services, exports, single sign-on, maps and search - with what exists and what would…
- Handing over keys and secrets at exit Which keys, passwords and secrets an Exponential site depends on, which of them cannot be recreated (audit signing keys, the mail preferences secret, certificate keys), how to transfer them privately, and which ones to…
- Header menu by command line Add a page to the header menu with ./console exp:ini - see where the list is set, preview the change with --dry-run, write it, clear the caches. Real output from Exponential 6.0.15+.
- How do I archive finished orders? Tick the finished orders in Store > Orders and click Archive selected; archived orders leave the order list, stay in the database and can be brought back from Store > Archive.
- Installation problems, then and now The two problems the Learning book's first chapter troubleshoots (PHP memory limit, PHP as CGI) and how they look in Exponential 6, with where to look first.
- Log viewer and rotation How support staff read an Exponential site's logs from the administration or a shell (Setup > Log files and exp:logs), how to give a customer access safely, and how the kernel rotates, compresses and prunes its logs…
- Mail categories and opt-in For public bodies sending optional e-mail - Exponential's essential and optional mail categories, why optional ones are off until a person turns them on, double opt-in for newsletters and offers, adding your own…
- Mail problems Runbook for mail that does not arrive (password resets, form confirmations, notifications, newsletters) or that goes where it should not (a test copy mailing citizens) - transport settings, cron, preferences, sender…
- Maintenance windows Planning and running a maintenance window for a public website - announcing it, taking the site offline with a clear message and a 503 answer, letting testers in, pausing cronjobs, and bringing the site back with checks.
- MySQL for hosts MySQL as the database of an Exponential site, from a host's point of view: where it stands in the official order, versions, the grants a site's user needs, InnoDB and utf8mb4, settings, read replicas, backups and the…
- Onboarding a department How to bring a new department of a public body onto an existing Exponential site - content area, section, user group, roles, workflow, design, training and go-live - step by step with the admin pages involved.
- Open formats and data portability In which formats Exponential stores and exports content, settings and files, which of them are open and documented, and how to keep your own content in formats another system can read.
- Pause cronjobs during maintenance Step by step - pause one or all cronjob parts during a release or migration from Setup > Cronjobs, with a note saying why, so no runner starts them, and resume them afterwards without forgetting.
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