- Requirements at a glance Every requirement of Exponential 6.0.x on one page, with the minimum, the recommendation and what checks it: PHP, extensions, php.ini, databases in the official order, Composer, web server, image conversion, writable…
- When a migration fails: troubleshooting by symptom Troubleshooting migrations by what you see - a failed run, a refused run, a migration that does not run or runs where it should not, a held lock, nothing restored, a push that waits, a run in the administration that…
- Migrations: frequently asked questions Short answers to the questions people ask about migrations in Exponential 6.0.15 - what they are for, how they differ from upgrades and site moves, how runs, captions, rollback, environments, teams, CI, engines…
- 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.
- 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…
- Caching layers Every cache between a visitor and the database of an Exponential site, in order: what each holds, whether it ships on or off, where it lives, which server uses it, and how it is cleared, so a host knows what a plan…
- Backups: what to back up The complete list of what an Exponential backup must contain (the database, uploaded files, settings, keys and the audit trail), what can be left out because it is regenerated, and how to take database and files at the…
- Build with Exponential: why, which product, first steps The "Build with Exponential" page of exponential.earth, checked against the software - why build on it (simple, stable, upgradable), what you get out of the box, the product family as the repositories describe it…
- Contribute to the project: every way to help build Exponential How to take part in building Exponential, following the "Support Exponential!" FAQ and the community pages of exponential.earth and the kernel's CONTRIBUTING.md - code through pull requests, the license your…
- Databases in the official order The six databases Exponential 6.0.x supports, in the project's official order (SQLite 3, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, MariaDB, Oracle, MySQL), compared side by side for hosts, with how to choose which to offer and what each one…
- Give and donate: fund the work on Exponential The "Give Support" page of exponential.earth explained - becoming a partner, donating, a sustaining support subscription, sponsoring new software from 7x, GitHub Sponsors for 7x and for the Exponential Foundation…
- Velocity for hosts How a hosting company installs, configures, runs and supports Exponential Velocity, the recommended engine: requirements, install, ports and worker user, a boot service, the watchdog, deploys, logs, the dashboard and…
- Add a header menu item Add a page from the content tree to the site header's main menu in Exponential 6.0.15+, in the administration (no code) or with one console command, and see why the Layouts editor does not list the menu items.
- Build a campaign page, start to finish The complete life of one campaign page in the Layouts editor, every step on screen - create a layout, link its header and footer to the shared layout, add a Hero, publish, create the page in the content tree, map the…
- The package creator wizard, step by step Walk through Setup > Packages > Create new package (/package/create) - choosing a wizard, the pickers, package information, maintainer, changelog, the review and Create package - and what you get at the end.
- User manual One question per page for the work in the Admin 4 administration - the tabs, the daily tasks of editors, and the tasks of administrators and site managers - with who may do it, the steps, what can go wrong and where to…
- Standards The standards Exponential follows and how well it complies (accessibility, security, privacy, web, internationalization, PHP, documentation, APIs, databases, Git, coding and testing), its architectural rules, and a…
- Migrating to and from Exponential The migration hub. A verified table of every Exponential product and its versions, a decision guide, and one guide per path within the Exponential family and from or to other systems (WordPress, Drupal, Joomla, Magento…
- Examples Working examples for Exponential 6. Web server configurations that were checked, a cookbook of complete tasks, and more than two thousand reference pages generated from the code, covering template operators, fetch…
- Migrations The start of everything about migrations in Exponential 6.0.15 - schema and content changes written once as files under version control and applied to every installation of a site in the same order, with a caption…
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