- Open data in Exponential at a glance One table of every Exponential feature that helps a public body publish open data, with where it lives and what it does not do, so a project manager can scope the work in minutes.
- Personal data in Exponential Where an Exponential installation stores personal data - user accounts, sessions, orders, form submissions, mail preferences and consent, newsletter subscribers, notifications, search phrases, logs, the audit trail…
- Return on investment of stability How to express the value of a stable platform as a return on investment - avoided downtime, fewer emergency fixes, predictable upgrades - with the facts about Exponential that support each benefit and a worked…
- Runbook: slow site What to do when an Exponential site is slow: measure first with exp:benchmark, separate cold from warm, check the caches, OPcache, workers or PHP-FPM children, the database and the request logs, then apply the levers in…
- Schedules and cron in 7x SQLI Import How 7x SQLI Import 2.0 starts imports by itself - the schedule kinds from once to cron expressions, time zones, missed runs, the Schedules page, the cron parts sqliimport and expqueue - and how another system starts an…
- Searchable fields and indexing Which fields of public sector content classes to mark Searchable, how indexing on publish and delayed indexing work, how to rebuild the index, and the pitfalls (internal codes, hidden content, large imports).
- Sections and subtree limits When to limit staff access by section and when by subtree of the content tree, how each behaves when content moves, and how a public body with many departments, restricted areas and shared pages combines the two.
- Self-hosting on premise What a public body needs to run Exponential on its own servers: the requirements, the install paths, serving with Velocity or a traditional web server, the database, the regular operations, and the skills to plan for.
- Setting up the Approve event Every field of the Approve event (affected sections, languages and versions, approving users and groups, excluded groups) with the choice a public body usually makes for each, and the trigger and cronjob that make it…
- Several web servers behind a load balancer For IT teams in public bodies that put an Exponential site on several web servers behind a central load balancer or reverse proxy. What is shared and what stays local, trusted proxies, cron on one node, and deploys…
- Shop settings walkthroughs Every settings file that shapes an Exponential store, with where overrides go, how to check the value that is really in effect, and a walkthrough page per file - shop.ini, site.ini ShopSettings, shopaccount.ini…
- Sign-in and sessions How sign-in and sessions work for public account holders and staff on an Exponential site - the sign-in pages, session lifetime and cookies, other sessions signed out after a password change, the Setup Sessions page…
- Site down Runbook for a public website that does not serve pages - confirm, read which error page visitors get, find the cause (database, maintenance left on, missing libraries, an uncaught error, the web server or Velocity)…
- Spam protection for volunteer forms Keeping spam out of a non-profit's volunteer and contact forms on Exponential - the ezformtoken form token that is active by default, choosing between the hcaptcha and recaptcha datatypes, keys in override files, the…
- SQLite and Velocity for small teams The two Exponential choices that make a non-profit's site cheap to run - SQLite, the default database that keeps the whole site in one file with no database server, and Velocity, the bundled web server that needs…
- Supported versions Which Exponential versions receive security fixes according to SECURITY.md, what "supported" means for a public body, what happens to older lines, and how to require a supported version in a contract.
- The log viewer Reading Exponential's logs in the administration (Setup > Log files) and on the shell (exp:logs) - which logs exist, permalinks, following a file live, searching, finding an error by its reference, masking of personal…
- The package server Overview of the package server that publishes Exponential's site installer packages, exponential.packages.exponential.earth, with a map of the pages that explain what it is, what it holds, how it is built and released…
- The PHP stack of the Exponential ecosystem The landing page of the PHP stack part of the ecosystem section - PHP versions, databases, web servers and engines, operating systems, the upstream projects Exponential uses and gives back to, and the standards and…
- The roadmap: what is planned and how to shape it Where the Exponential roadmap lives (the official roadmap and the community roadmap on Share Exponential), what it lists for Exponential 6, the Platform distributions, Basic and the community websites, which items the…
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