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Email Overview CumulusClips utilizes PHP's built-in "mail" function which means we need to configure php.ini to use a mail client that will send email. It seems like an industry standard to use "sendmail" based on all the tutorials out there but sendmail is a mail server itself which can receive ma...

Logo Locations Images related to the admin panel "CumulusClips Admin Panel" text on top of admin panel page. (374x27) cc-admin/images/admin-logo.png Small greyscale version of the main screen logo at the bottom of the admin panel (79x32) cc-admin/images/footer-logo.png Images related to the default...

Install CumulusClips Download CumulusClips, extract the archive and set permissions: cd /tmp wget http://cumulusclips.org/cumulusclips.tar.gz tar -xzvf /tmp/cumulusclips.tar.gz sudo chown www-data:root --recursive /tmp/cumulusclips sudo find /tmp/cumulusclips/. -type d -exec chmod 755 '{}' \+ sudo ...

Install CumulusClips Prerequisites At the server console, type the following to install the additional modules and restart the web service: sudo apt -y install php7.4-curl php7.4-xml php7.4-gd php7.4-zip php7.4-intl sudo systemctl reload apache2 To make sure the modules are loaded, we will create a...

Install Apache sudo apt install apache2 Install PHP for Apache with MySQL/MariaDB support sudo apt install php7.4 libapache2-mod-php7.4 php7.4-mysql Firewall Rules Edit the firewall script that was created during the initial setup of the server (if you followed my instructions ): sudo vi /var/scrip...

CumulusClips Requirements Source: http://cumulusclips.org/docs/requirements/ 1 GB RAM Linux (Kernel 2.6.32+) PHP 5.3+ MySQL 5.0+ Apache web server 2.x (with mod_rewrite enabled) PHP Modules: POSIX, GD, curl, simplexml, zip, PHP-MySQL and PDO MySQL PHP Settings: short_open_tag = On, upload_max_files...

Configure MariaDB / MySQL In this scenario, a dedicated and general-purpose database server already exists and it will be used to hold the application's database. Connect to the database server using PuTTY. Type the following commands: mysql -u root -p Enter password: rootpass CREATE DATABASE cumul...

Installation of Database Server This documentation will assume you have installed a separate and dedicated database server according to this article: How To Install MariaDB Installation of Ubuntu Server This documentation will assume you have installed Ubuntu Server according to this article: How t...

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Web Error Log The web error log will typically hold all the information you need to track down problems. On Ubuntu using Apache, the log file will be located here: /var/log/apache2/ fqdn -error.log To see the errors displayed live while browsing, use the tail command to view the end of the log but ...

Visual Customization Reference Articles: Getting Started: Changing the look and feel Xataface Customization Tutorial Custom Logo Let's create a logo image and name it "logo.png" and in this example, the logo happens to be 183 pixels wide by 50 pixels high. Now modify (or create) an Application Dele...

Image Table /var/www/fqdn/house/tables/tbl_image/fields.ini [__global__] visibility:browse = visible visibility:csv = visible visibility:find = visible visibility:list = visible visibility:update = hidden [fieldgroup:Primary] section:order = 1 order = 1 label = "Primary Fields" [fieldgroup:Secondar...

Web site structure Now lets create the necessary files and folders to customize the interface that is presented. cd /var/www/fqdn/house mkdir templates_c mkdir -p tables/tbl_asset mkdir -p tables/tbl_box mkdir -p tables/tbl_family/Filename mkdir -p tables/tbl_image/Filename mkdir -p tables/tbl_skil...

Let's use the skeleton files to initially populate our application folder. mkdir -p /var/www/fqdn/house cp /var/www/fqdn/xataface/site_skeleton/* /var/www/fqdn/house/. cp /var/www/fqdn/xataface/site_skeleton/.htaccess /var/www/fqdn/house/. chown --recursive www-data:root /var/www/fqdn/house chmod 07...

Optional Extensions Xataface functionality can be extended by creating or using modules. Module Install To install a module, download the archive and extract it. Move (and rename if necessary) the folder to <xataface folder>/modules/ If installing the ajax_upload module, make sure the folder is cal...

Server Setup This article assumes you are using a Linux server with Apache and MariaDB but any web server that supports PHP and a database server that Xataface supports will work. I will be using two Ubuntu servers , one as an Apache web server and one as a MariaDB server . Large File Upload Suppor...

MediaWiki Backup There are various methods of backup that can be utilized but for this server, I will simply use RSync and tar. RSync will mirror the files in the production folder to a local backup folder. The archive will be created from this backup folder. Here are the folders I consider importa...

Scripting Much of the solutions beyond this point involve scripts (programming snippets / automated commands). In particular, they are Bash Scripts. I chose this due to its popularity and the fact it comes with Ubuntu. I try to make use of what comes with the system without requiring additional sof...

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