- Project files: README, security policy and contributing in the help The README.md, SECURITY.md, CONTRIBUTING.md, COPYRIGHT.md and LICENSE.md of the repository, and the README files of its directories, are pages of the help. Where to find them, how links between them and the…
- Read replicas For database teams in public bodies running Exponential on MySQL or MariaDB. How Exponential sends read queries to replicas with UseSlaveServer, the exact settings, what replication lag means for editors, and when…
- Records checklist A checklist for public bodies that must keep website content as records - what Exponential keeps (versions, trash, audit trail), what it does not do (retention schedules, disposal, archival transfer), and the routines…
- 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.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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.
- 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…
- Solr with ezfind When a public body should move its site search to Solr with the ezfind extension, what Solr adds (relevance, facets, per-language cores, autocomplete, spell check), what it costs to run, and the steps to switch it on…
- Staff and skills in the cost of an Exponential site The internal roles a public body needs to run a website or intranet on Exponential - editors, web team, site administrator, operations, security and data protection - the skills each needs, the courses that teach them…
- Suspected account compromise Runbook for a staff or administrator account that may be used by someone else - disable it, end its sessions, look at what it did in the audit trail, undo changes, reset the password and second factor, and check for…
- The first 90 days for agencies A 90-day plan for a regulator, inspectorate or executive agency starting with Exponential - guidance inventory and owners, legal review workflow, status states, migration and launch - with checks.
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