- Redirect the start page to the visitor's language Task for administrators: make www.example.gov/ send each visitor once to the language their browser asks for, with DefaultHostUriMatchMapItems, and test it with curl.
- Registrations for events How to take sign-ups for public events with Exponential's information collector - collector attributes on the event, the confirmation and mail, what it cannot do (capacity, waiting lists, payments), the personal data…
- Remote services What the expservices remote services give a business - the administration's functions as over a thousand named HTTP services for portals, scripts, partner tools and remote admin apps, with discovery, personal tokens…
- Removed PHP functions and their replacements The PHP functions old extensions call that PHP 7 and 8 removed - each(), create_function(), ereg(), split(), mysql_*(), magic quotes and others - with a tested replacement for each.
- Restore last night's backup to a test server Step by step - prove your backup works by restoring last night's database and files to a test server, with mail switched to the file transport so no citizen is contacted, then check the site and record the time it took.
- Restricting the administration How a host keeps the Exponential administration of each customer site out of reach of everyone else: its own host name, network limits in Apache, nginx or in front of Velocity, request-shield's browser check…
- Reviewing stale accounts How to find and disable external accounts nobody uses any more with Users > Check user accounts (Never signed in, Not seen for N days, filtered to the external groups), export the list for the project managers, and act…
- Role design: the central web team A least-privilege role for the central web team of a public body - full content work across the site, caches, cronjobs and logs, but not roles, settings or the audit's management - built only from policy functions that…
- Routing: modules, views and parameters How Exponential maps an address to code - the module/view convention instead of a route table, ordered and unordered parameters, registering a module, generating URLs with ezurl and eZURI::build, HTTP methods and…
- Runbook: compromised site What a host does when an Exponential site may have been compromised: contain without destroying evidence, check the audit trail and its hash chain, the security log and changed files, rotate credentials and sessions…
- Running content modeling workshops How to run workshops that turn your content into content classes, attributes, a content tree, sections, states, languages and roles; agendas, exercises and a class sheet to copy.
- Section 508 and Exponential For US federal agencies and their contractors - what Section 508 and the Revised 508 Standards ask of web content and authoring tools in general terms, the project's status (Unverified, no VPAT), and how to evaluate a…
- Separate session cookies for the administration Step by step - give every siteaccess its own session cookie in Exponential (SessionNameHandler=custom), so a sign-in on the public site is not a sign-in in the administration, and check the result.
- Settings, logs and caches per site Why and how each brand on one Exponential installation can keep its own settings, log files and caches - per-site overrides in a site extension, logs per site, caches on a memory file system, INI caches cleared per…
- Settings in the administration Setup > Ini settings shows every setting with its value in effect, the file it comes from and the whole override chain; compares siteaccesses; changes values safely with masked secrets. How a builder uses it.
- sevenx_multisite An overview of sevenx_multisite, the default site package of Exponential 6.0.15: what it installs, which packages it pulls in, and where to read about each part.
- Shared content across sites How one piece of content (a contact page, a policy, a news item) appears on several department sites of one Exponential installation without copying: several locations, object relations and embeds, shared folders, and…
- Site packages for hosts What an Exponential installation puts on a new site: the site packages offered by the package index (sevenx_multisite and the others, with or without demo content), where packages come from (remote index, local…
- Small group checklist One checklist for a club, society or volunteer-run group on Exponential - planning, volunteer editing, events and news, forms, data protection, operations, launch, the monthly routine and the yearly handover - each item…
- Social media guidelines Guidelines for advocates who post about Exponential on social media - speak as yourself, link sources, use the right names, protect privacy and security, be kind, disclose, correct mistakes - with a do and don't table…
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