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concrete5: Beginner's Guide - Second Edition

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concrete5: Beginner's Guide - 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 pretty URLs and the cache


Carry out the following steps:

  1. In your dashboard, go to System & Settings and then to Clear Cache. Click on the only available button.

  2. In your dashboard, go to System & Settings and then to Cache & Speed Settings to make sure that all checkboxes are set to Off and then click on Save.

  3. In your dashboard, go to the settings again and click on Pretty URLs. Make sure the checkbox isn't checked and save the change if necessary.

  4. Rename the file named .htaccess that is in the root of your site C:\BitNami\wampstack-5.4.10-0\apache2\htdocs to something such as htaccess-disabled.

What just happened?

Why did we disable pretty URLs? concrete5 creates a .htaccess file to rewrite the URLs that is based on a technology from the Apache web server. If you move your website to a server without support for .htaccess, your website might break after this move.

Tip

Please note, without pretty URLs you have to open the login page by using the following...