Recent changes
Wednesday November 04 2026
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Scheduled publication and embargoes Updated Markdown page
How to publish transparency content at a set time with the Wait until date workflow event, how to hide content after a date with the hide cronjob, why the unpublish cronjob removes content and should not be used for…
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Search and findability of disclosures Updated Markdown page
How to make published responses, reports and registers easy to find on an Exponential site: searchable fields, text extraction from PDFs, search statistics, URL aliases, feeds and sitemaps, and what each costs.
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Spending and contract publishing Updated Markdown page
How to publish spending reports, contracts and procurement notices with Exponential: as documents in a dated structure, as a register kept as content, or as both, with open-data exports and checks for commercially…
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The audit trail for who changed what Updated Markdown page
How a public body uses Exponential's audit trail (on by default, hash-chained, with signed archives) to answer who published, changed, moved or removed content, who changed roles and settings, how to prove the record is…
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Transparency checklist Updated Markdown page
A checklist for running transparency and freedom of information publishing on Exponential, from structure and roles to request handling, accountability settings and yearly review, linking the page that explains each…
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Transparency in Exponential at a glance Updated Markdown page
One overview of the Exponential features a public body uses for transparency and freedom of information work (publishing, request forms, approval, version history, audit trail, exports), with what each does and the gaps…
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Version history as accountability Updated Markdown page
How Exponential's version history shows what a published page said at an earlier time and who saved each version, how to compare two versions, who may see them, and where the history stops being a complete record.
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Withdrawing and correcting published information Updated Markdown page
How to correct or withdraw information a public body has published, in Exponential, so that the public sees what changed and the record stays complete: corrections with notes, hiding instead of removing, the trash, and…
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Hosting basics Updated Markdown page
The overview of the hosting basics section: what a server needs to run Exponential, the PHP versions, extensions and settings, the six supported databases in the official order, operating systems, Composer and Git…
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Databases in the official order Updated Markdown page
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…
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Image processing and media Updated Markdown page
What a host needs to provide for Exponential's image handling: GD and ImageMagick and their order, the image aliases and where variations are stored, the upload types accepted and validated, SVG sanitizing, Velocity's…
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MariaDB for hosts Updated Markdown page
MariaDB as the database of an Exponential site, from a host's point of view: the shared mysqli driver, utf8mb4 and InnoDB, the grants a site's user needs, settings, installing, the connection character set, backups and…
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Microsoft SQL Server status Updated Markdown page
The status of Microsoft SQL Server for Exponential 6.0.x as a host should state it: known to be possible with additional work at this time, with no driver, schema handler or installer entry in 6.0.x; what exists, what…
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MongoDB for hosts Updated Markdown page
MongoDB as the database of an Exponential site, from a host's point of view: the PHP, server and extension versions it needs, the Composer library, the database user, installing, the indexes, the documented limits…
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MySQL for hosts Updated Markdown page
MySQL as the database of an Exponential site, from a host's point of view: where it stands in the official order, versions, the grants a site's user needs, InnoDB and utf8mb4, settings, read replicas, backups and the…
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Operating systems for hosts Updated Markdown page
Which operating systems a hosting company can run Exponential on, sorted by the project's four tiers, with the reference platform, the Linux families, panels, containers, processor architectures, Windows and how to…
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Oracle for hosts Updated Markdown page
Oracle Database 19c and later as the database of an Exponential site, from a host's point of view: the ezoracle extension, oci8 and the Instant Client, the user and its grants, the connect string, persistent connections…
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PHP versions and extensions Updated Markdown page
Which PHP versions Exponential 6.0.x and Velocity run on, which PHP extensions are required, recommended or needed per database, the package names on the RHEL family, Debian, Ubuntu and Plesk, and why the web PHP and…
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PostgreSQL for hosts Updated Markdown page
PostgreSQL, the recommended database server for Exponential, from a host's point of view: versions, the database owner rule, the pgcrypto extension, settings, installing with exp:install, sequences, backups and the…
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Search backends Updated Markdown page
The search options a host can offer for Exponential sites: the built-in database search with its limits and delayed indexing, rebuilding the index, the optional Solr search through the eZ Find extension, the exp:solr…