- Go-live checklist for a customer site The checklist a host works through before a customer's Exponential site goes public: administrator password and accounts, settings, caches, HTTPS and headers, cron, mail, search, backups with a restore test, monitoring…
- 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…
- The design cascade The exact order in which Exponential searches designs and extensions for a template, stylesheet or image, with a worked example from this installation and the caches that hold the result.
- 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…
- Feature stories: index The index of feature stories about Exponential for journalists and creators - one page per area, from editing, Exponential Layouts, Exponential Intelligence and Velocity to security, accessibility, languages, multisite…
- Exponential migrations for Doctrine users For developers who know Doctrine Migrations from the DXP and now work on an Exponential 6 site - what is the same, what differs (content as well as schema, captions, commit, tag and push, environments, the…
- Publish your portfolio free on GitHub Pages Build your portfolio in Exponential, publish it as a static site on GitHub Pages at no cost, and show employers both the site and the repository behind 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…
- The pagelayout The template that frames every page: how the kernel calls it, what it must print, a minimal working pagelayout, how real designs split it into parts, and how a module can ask for another 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…
- The community channels Every documented Exponential community channel - Share and its forums, the Telegram chat, eZpedia, the documentation site, Projects, the GitHub trackers and sponsor pages - what each is for, where to send whom, and what…
- 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…
- A free website for your nonprofit Run your nonprofit's public website without a hosting bill - edit in Exponential, publish a static copy to GitHub Pages for free, and keep donations and sign-ups on services made for them.
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