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SEO Analysis

Last Updated February 17, 2019No Comments

CiviHosting is now offering SEO analysis and suggestions. This means we will analyze your site, given your market and your target audience and your target keywords. Our report includes where your site is doing well and where it’s not. Then the report includes suggestions of what to fix and what to do to improve your SEO. As one of our clients responded to us after receiving his report “this is incredibly valuable, thank you so much.” For more details, just contact us.

Detect CLI in PHP Script

Last Updated February 3, 2019February 3, 2019No Comments

To detect if your PHP script is being called via a web client or via CLI, you can use the php_sapi_name() function. If I use this simple code:

<?php
echo php_sapi_name();

1 2	<?php echo php_sapi_name();

Then from a web browser I see: cgi-fcgi and from CLI I see cli.

Nextcloud App Bundles

Last Updated February 3, 2019No Comments

Nextcloud has released a new concept in apps — app bundles. An app bundle is a set of apps, that either work together or complement each other to achieve a shared goal. See their blog post Discover Nextcloud Groupware App Bundle to learn more about the Groupware app bundle.

Site Conversions

Last Updated January 28, 2019No Comments

We offer conversions of sites from static HTML or platforms such as Wikispaces, WordPress, Joomla, Drupal and others. We can convert such sites to target platforms including WordPress, DokuWiki and MediaWiki. Contact us for more details.

Disable Anonymous Registration on MediaWiki

Last Updated January 9, 2019January 9, 2019No Comments

By default, MediaWiki allows anyone to register as a user. For private wikis, if you want to disable that, just add this:

$wgGroupPermissions['*']['createaccount'] = false;

1	$wgGroupPermissions['*']['createaccount'] = false;

to your LocalSettings.php file.

PHP CLI Version

Last Updated January 4, 2019January 4, 2019No Comments

The default PHP interpreter for CiviHosting today is PHP 7.2. But that is only for web service, not for CLI. For CLI, the default version is 5.6. All servers have PHP 7.1 and 7.2 also available for CLI of course. To run PHP 7.1, use:

php71.cli

php71.cli

To run PHP 7.2, use:

php7.cli

php7.cli

What is MediaWiki

Last Updated January 13, 2019January 13, 2019No Comments

MediaWiki is free wiki software that anyone can download and use to build any wiki they want. MediaWiki is old and established and works, but is also under constant development and is therefore also modern and up to date. For more information, see our navigation links to the right.

Getting Started with DokuWiki

Last Updated December 27, 2018December 27, 2018No Comments

Installation This page presumes you already have DokuWiki installed and working. If not, see our How to Install DokuWiki page. The last step there is how to login, so we will carry on here from that step. Edit the Home Page To get to your home page, either click the red “start” link or click on the DokuWiki logo on the top left of your site. Then you will see the “This topic does not exist yet” message: To create the page, put your mouse on the pencil icon on the far right side of the page (directly to the right of “This topic does not exist yet”) and a… Read More

How to Install Jekyll

Last Updated April 11, 2019April 11, 2019No Comments

We will of course install Jekyll for you, but if you prefer to do it yourself, here is a sample install procedure to create a new blog: 1. Install Jekyll and bundler gems

gem install jekyll bundler

1	gem install jekyll bundler

2. Create a new Jekyll site at ./myblog

jekyll new myblog

1	jekyll new myblog

3. Change into your new directory

cd myblog

cd myblog

4. Create a new app via the Web Apps section of your hosting Control Panel and use these values:

Engine: Custom
Name: Jekyll <em>(or whatever you want)</em>
Subdomain: <em>Your choice</em>
Port: <em>System will assign this</em>
Memory: Default
Deployment Directory: /private/jekyll/myblog
Start Command: /home/<em>myuser</em>/private/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.5.3/wrappers/bundle exec jekyll serve

Engine: Custom

Name: Jekyll (or whatever you want)

Subdomain: Your choice

Port: System will assign this

Memory: Default

Deployment Directory: /private/jekyll/myblog

Start Command: /home/myuser/private/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.5.3/wrappers/bundle exec jekyll serve

where myuser is your hosting account username. 5. Edit your myblog/_config.yml file to set:

baseurl: "/myblog" # the subpath of your site, e.g. /blog
url: http://jekyll.mysite.com # the base hostname & protocol for your site, e.g. http://example.com

1 2	baseurl: "/myblog" # the subpath of your site, e.g. /blog url: http://jekyll.mysite.com # the base hostname & protocol for your site, e.g. http://example.com

and add:

port: <em>111</em>

1	port: <em>111</em>

where 111 is the port number assigned to your app in the previous step. That’s it. Your webapp should now start and… Read More

DokuWiki

Last Updated December 27, 2018December 27, 2018No Comments

What is DokuWiki DokuWiki, in a nutshell, is a software package that allows you to create an online wiki. In more detail, DokuWiki is an open source software package written in PHP and meant to be used as a wiki. It is free to download and install on any server (public or private) and use indefinitely to create any website you want. The vast majority of DokuWiki sites are wikis, but it can also be used as a CMS to create a “static site.” The prsnl10 Template has a section called Sites using this Template with a list of simple static sites using that template, and you can see here… Read More