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concrete5: Beginner's Guide - Second Edition - Second Edition

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concrete5: Beginner's Guide - Second Edition - Second Edition

Overview of this book

concrete5 is an open source content management system (CMS) for publishing content on the World Wide Web and intranets. concrete5 is designed for ease of use, and for users with limited technical skills. It enables users to edit site content directly from the page. It provides version management for every page and allows users to edit images through an embedded editor on the page. concrete5 Beginner's Guide shows you everything you need to get your own site up and running in no time. You will then learn how to change the look of it before you find out all you need to add custom functionality to concrete5. concrete5 Beginner's Guide starts with installation, then you customize the look and feel and continue to add your own functionality. After you've installed and configured your own concrete5 site, we'll have a closer look at themes and integrate a simple layout into concrete5. Afterwards, we're going to build a block from scratch which you can use to manage a news section. We're also going to add a button to our site which can be used to create a PDF document on the fly. This book also covers some examples that show you how to integrate an existing jQuery plugin. concrete5 Beginner's Guide is a book for developers looking to get started with concrete5 in order to create great websites and applications.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Pop Quiz Answers
Index

Time for action – disabling caching


Follow these steps to disable all caches in concrete5:

  1. Log in to concrete5 and type cache settings in the intelligent search box and select the first entry in the result.

  2. In the screen you can see now, select all the radio buttons labeled as Off and confirm the change by clicking on Save.

What just happened?

We just disabled the cache in concrete5 to avoid some potential problems with outdated results. In the last chapter when we upload the site, we'll enable the cache again!

Enabling pretty URLs

When you browse to a subpage in your concrete5 site you'll notice an odd thing in every URL; there's index.php in it like in http://localhost/index.php/about/. Every request to a page in concrete5 is processed by index.php, this has several advantages. It's easier to check the permissions because there's a single point where the page rendering happens.

But even with these advantages you probably don't like to see index.php in every URL. Luckily it's rather easy to change it if your web server supports rewrite rules. Our Bitnami stack does, but only because we previously changed AllowOverride to All in the relevant section before. Now that we have everything needed for pretty URLs, here's what we have to do to get rid of index.php.