Recent changes
Wednesday November 04 2026
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Velocity chronicle: September 2026, 25 to 30 September Updated Markdown page
What changed in Exponential Velocity, the web server engine, in this period, and where to read more. Read it if you run or tune Velocity, or want to know why a setting exists. Part of the Exponential Velocity history…
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Velocity chronicle: October 2026 Updated Markdown page
What changed in Exponential Velocity, the web server engine, in this period, and where to read more. Read it if you run or tune Velocity, or want to know why a setting exists. Part of the Exponential Velocity history…
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Exponential Velocity: history of the web server engine Updated Markdown page
Exponential Velocity (vc, driven from Exponential by exp:velocity) is the PHP application server that Exponential recommends for every stage from development to production. This section tells how it came to be, month by…
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Installer and package repositories: history Updated Markdown page
Part of the Exponential Velocity history. This page covers the two small repositories that carry the legacy installers: ezwebin-ezpackage (the site packages the setup wizard installs) and exponential-legacy-installer…
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4. Choosing an install method Updated Markdown page
Exponential 6.0 can be installed in three ways that all end in the same kind of installation: the setup wizard in a browser, the kickstarter on the command line driven by a kickstart.ini file, and the one-command…
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6. The kickstarter Updated Markdown page
The kickstarter installs Exponential on the command line from one file, kickstart.ini in the installation root. It runs the setup wizard's own step classes in a single PHP process, takes every answer from the file…
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7. The console install: exp:install Updated Markdown page
exp:install installs Exponential with one command and no file to write first. It turns its options into the same configuration a kickstart.ini would hold, runs the kickstarter's installation steps in the same process…
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8. Serving the site: Velocity, Apache, nginx and FrankenPHP Updated Markdown page
An installed Exponential is a directory of PHP files; something has to accept connections, speak HTTP and HTTPS, hand static files out and pass every other request to a front controller. This chapter shows how. It…
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9. Databases Updated Markdown page
Exponential stores its content repository in one of six database systems on five drivers: SQLite 3, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, MariaDB, Oracle through the ezoracle extension, and MySQL (MariaDB and MySQL share one driver)…
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11. Upgrading Updated Markdown page
This chapter brings an existing installation to the current Exponential 6.0 line: from an earlier 6.0.x, from 5.4 or 5.90, or from the 4.x and older 5.x lines. It explains how to find the version you run, the one rule…
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15. Migrating from the 5.x legacy stack Updated Markdown page
This chapter moves a site of the 5.x era to Exponential 6.0: eZ Publish 5.0 to 5.4 and the community releases 2013.x and 2014.x, which ran two kernels side by side (the Symfony "new stack" in ezpublish/ and the legacy…
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16. Migrating from eZ Platform and Ibexa Updated Markdown page
This chapter moves a site that runs on eZ Platform 1.x, 2.x or 3.x, or on Ibexa DXP or Ibexa OSS 3.3, 4.x or 5.0, to one of the Exponential platforms. There are two destinations. Exponential Platform Nexus (and the…
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17. Migration reference Updated Markdown page
This chapter is the reference appendix for the three migration chapters before it. It holds the tables that those chapters point to rather than repeat: every table of the Exponential 6.0 kernel schema with its purpose…
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Installing and running Exponential 6.0: the book Updated Markdown page
This book takes you from an empty server to a production Exponential 6.0 site. It covers checking the requirements, getting the code, choosing and running an installer, serving the site, choosing a database, and keeping…
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Migrating to and from Exponential Updated Markdown page
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…
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Adobe Experience Manager and Exponential Updated Markdown page
Moving content between Adobe Experience Manager and Exponential 6 - content packages, the Sling GET servlet JSON, the Assets HTTP API, Content Fragments over GraphQL, mapping pages, components, assets and fragments…
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The common migration checklist Updated Markdown page
The steps every migration to, within or away from Exponential shares - inventory, freeze, content mapping, URLs and redirects, search engine metadata, rehearsals, testing, cut-over, rollback and sign-off - as checklists…
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ColdFusion applications and Exponential Updated Markdown page
Moving the content of an Adobe ColdFusion (or Lucee) application to Exponential 6 - ColdFusion is a runtime, not a CMS, so the content is read from the application's database and files - with mapping, .cfm addresses and…
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Mapping content to Exponential Updated Markdown page
How the concepts of any other system map to Exponential's content model - classes and datatypes, objects, versions and translations, locations, sections and states, users and passwords, media, taxonomy, comments and…
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Contentful and Exponential Updated Markdown page
Moving content between Contentful and Exponential 6 - contentful space export and import, the Content Delivery API, what the export leaves out, mapping content types, entries, assets, locales and rich text, and keeping…