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Administration

Running the site: settings, users and roles, caches, cronjobs and logs.

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Static publishing The start of everything about static publishing in Exponential 6.0.15 - a free, fast and safe public copy of a site on GitHub Pages or any git host, built, checked and published from Setup > Static publishing, with… EditorsAdministratorsDevelopersHosting companiesWebsite creatorsNon-profitsLocal businessesIndividualsStudents and learners Administration
User management from the console The start of everything about the exp:user commands in Exponential 6.0.15 - list, create, change, disable and remove user accounts, reset passwords, approve registrations, manage groups, roles, sessions and two-step… AdministratorsDevelopersHosting companies Administration
Make a free website in 15 minutes The tutorial - from an existing Exponential site to a live github.io address in about 15 minutes, with a free GitHub account, one token, the setup wizard, a build, a check and a publish. EditorsAdministratorsWebsite creatorsNon-profitsLocal businessesIndividualsStudents and learners Administration
What static publishing is Static publishing in plain words - a copy of your site as ordinary files, served for free, while editing stays in Exponential; how it differs from the static cache and what visitors see. EditorsAdministratorsWebsite creatorsNon-profitsLocal businessesIndividualsNon-technical peopleStudents and learners Administration
Is static right for my site? A short checklist to decide whether a static copy suits your site - good fits such as brochure sites, blogs, documentation, portfolios, events, nonprofits and schools, and poor fits such as shops, members' areas and… AdministratorsWebsite creatorsNon-profitsLocal businessesIndividualsNon-technical peopleStudents and learners Administration
Use your own domain Serve the static copy at your own domain instead of github.io - the CNAME file, the DNS records for a subdomain or an apex domain, the DNS check in the wizard and on the console, and HTTPS with its waiting time. AdministratorsHosting companiesWebsite creatorsNon-profitsLocal businessesIndividualsStudents and learners Administration
Keep private content private How static publishing makes sure only public content reaches a public repository - builds as the anonymous user, the clean-up and refuse checks, leaving pages and sections out, and reading the diff before every public… EditorsAdministratorsHosting companiesWebsite creatorsGovernments Administration
Other git hosts: GitLab, Gitea and your own server Publish the static copy to GitLab Pages, Codeberg or Gitea pages, or a git repository on your own server - the target with Kind=git, signing in with a token or a deploy key, and what each host needs to serve the files. AdministratorsDevelopersHosting companiesWebsite creatorsGovernments Administration
Static publishing FAQ Short answers to the questions people ask about static publishing - cost, hosting, editors, comments, going back, Exponential Layouts, Smarty and Twig sites, languages, part of a site, private repositories and custom… EditorsAdministratorsDevelopersHosting companiesWebsite creatorsNon-profitsLocal businessesIndividualsNon-technical peopleStudents and learners Administration
Change the administrator password Change the administrator password in the administration, for another user, or on the command line; how passwords are hashed and checked, what happens to sessions, and how to get back in when nobody can sign in. AdministratorsDevelopers Administration
The default administrator password Which administrator login and password a fresh installation starts with, for each way of installing (setup wizard, kickstarter, console install, the shipped database seed, packages), and why it must be changed at once. AdministratorsDevelopers Administration
Security hardening An attacker-minded hardening guide for Exponential 6, secure by default in the OpenBSD sense: the attacks real groups run against content management systems, how Exponential already defends against each, and the… AdministratorsDevelopers Administration
Find, create and change accounts exp:user:list and exp:user:show find and inspect accounts by state, group and search; exp:user:create creates an account through the content publish with a password nobody types on a command line; exp:user:edit changes… AdministratorsDevelopersHosting companies Administration
Disable, enable and remove accounts exp:user:disable stops an account at once and ends its sessions, exp:user:enable starts it again, exp:user:delete removes it for good; protected accounts and the last administrator are refused, and how this relates to… AdministratorsDevelopersHosting companies Administration
Create a GitHub account and repository For people new to GitHub - make a free account, create the repository your static site goes to, and make the token Exponential pushes with, described screen by screen. AdministratorsWebsite creatorsNon-profitsLocal businessesIndividualsNon-technical peopleStudents and learners Administration
Passwords and sign-in checks exp:user:reset-password sends the reset link or sets a generated or piped password, exp:user:require-password-change makes the next sign-in ask for a new password, and exp:user:check-login tells a script whether a… AdministratorsDevelopersHosting companies Administration
Approve registrations exp:user:pending lists the registrations that wait for the e-mail address, an administrator or an approval item; exp:user:approve approves or rejects one, and exp:user:resend-activation sends the activation mail again… AdministratorsDevelopersHosting companies Administration
The setup wizard Every step of Setup > Static publishing > New target - the site, the host, signing in, the repository, links and base path with a live example, your own domain, what the build holds, when it is published - then Review… AdministratorsDevelopersHosting companiesWebsite creators Administration
Connect to GitHub: token, deploy key or GitHub App The ways static publishing signs in to GitHub - a fine-grained token kept in Setup > Secrets, an SSH deploy key made for the target, a GitHub App, or an OAuth sign-in - which one to choose, and how to set each up. AdministratorsDevelopersHosting companiesWebsite creators Administration
Groups and roles exp:user:groups lists, creates, renames, moves and deletes user groups; exp:user:roles lists, assigns and unassigns roles of a user or group, optionally limited to a subtree or section; exp:user:whoami says which… AdministratorsDevelopersHosting companies Administration

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