All of our servers come equipped with mod_deflate and mod_brotli. We recommend this code for mod_deflate: AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/css text/csv text/html text/plain text/richtext text/sgml text/tab-separated-values application/javascript application/x-javascript httpd/unix-directory AddOutputFilter DEFLATE html htm shtml php php4 pl rb py cgi css js txt BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4 gzip-only-text/html BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4\.0[678] no-gzip BrowserMatch \bMSIE !no-gzip !gzip-only-text/html and this for...
CiviCRM can now be installed on Drupal 8 on any hosting account with CiviHosting. All the install needs is composer and we have that installed globally on all servers. The official instructions are here: https://docs.civicrm.org/installation/en/latest/drupal8/ Below is our original post on this subject, before there was an officially working installer, but all of the below...
Drupal 8 runs on all of our hosting packages. To install Drupal 8 on CiviHosting: composer create-project drupal-composer/drupal-project:8.x-dev some-dir --no-interaction where you can replace some-dir with whatever directory you want. If you are in /www/www/ then you could use just a dot: .. Now you can use Drush from the command line -- it is...
To allow users to edit the MediaWiki:Common.css page, they need to be assigned two rights: editsitecss editinterface Only with both will they have rights to that page.
There is a an excellent tutorial on Medium.com called Mediawiki and Azure AD Single Sign On with step by step instructions how to set SSO for MediaWiki with Azure, but it's a bit outdated. One note is that the Reply URLs is now called "Redirect URIs" in Azure, in the Authentication tab. We also used...
We recently received the follow email (text adjusted slightly) from a client who uses us for hosting Nextcloud on a VPS, including monthly upgrades. The relevant part is this: The problem is that my boss is complaining and wants to move it to our own hosting. He says it will be way less to host...
The WikiMedia Foundation has announced that they are joining the World Wide Web Consortium! In a blog post by Gilles Dubuc, a Senior Software Engineer with WikiMeda, the Foundation has declared that they are "becoming a member of the W3C," which means they are joining the world wide effort to standardize the underlying code structure...
One of the most popular MediaWiki extensions is ConfirmEdit, and with good reason. It comes bundled with MediaWiki, since version 1.18, so you don't need to download it. You just need to enable it and then configure it. What is it? In short: The ConfirmEdit extension lets you use various different CAPTCHA techniques, to try...
The Social Warfare WordPress plugin has a known vulnerability for all versions prior to 3.5.2. You can see full details on the Unauthenticated Arbitrary Settings Update page at wpvulndb.com. We found today that one of our clients was running version 3.2.2 and their site was thus exposed to this risk. We checked that the backups...