SocialEngine & NGINX Integration

Last Updated on Tuesday, 12 March 2013 07:52 Written by Andrew Cross Friday, 15 March 2013 12:00

Do you have a dedicated Server? Would you like Social Engine to be faster? Why not install NGINX follow this Guide to integrate SocialEngine 4 + NGINX + FastCGI PHP5 + CentOS 5.4
Migrating your SocialEngine install from APACHE to NGINX
Packages provided by integration4us.com

Step # 1: Enable EPEL repo
NGINX is not included in the base system. Turn on
EPEL repo to install NGINX stable release:

SocialEngine 4: SMTP Setup

Last Updated on Saturday, 23 February 2013 02:41 Written by Andrew Cross Wednesday, 6 March 2013 12:00

Are you Feed up of your SE E-mails going into SPAM and members not getting their messages as quickly as possible here is a guide how to setup SMTP so your e-mails should go right into the INBOX and not SPAM.

Use SMTP mail settings in your MAIL SETTINGS from admin panel

Create and email address for your se4 domain in hosting control panel

Social Engine 4: Upgrading Expired to Purchased License

Last Updated on Saturday, 23 February 2013 01:37 Written by Andrew Cross Tuesday, 26 February 2013 12:00

Have you been using a Trial Version of SE 4 and have the license expire, once purchased the core, plus blogs, forums, and photo albums modules. You need to started with the upgrade instructions, by copying files over into the existing directory structure, but you may not proceed, as any time you hit the site, You may have received the “License expired” warning. I assume this is because you have some modules enabled that you hadn’t purchased. If you try deleting the license.txt file, clearing the cache (see below), and a few other things, but got nowhere.

You need to copy the new core to a different directory, copy over from the OLD directory structure, in application/settings the following files: database.php, general.php, mail.php.

Then clear the cache, instructions here:

SocialEngine 4: How to Flush Cache Properly

Last Updated on Monday, 18 February 2013 04:33 Written by Andrew Cross Friday, 22 February 2013 12:00

Flushing Cache in SE4 is not a difficult task

Usually it is required after language change, moving site to another host or to check updated result of template

You can normally flush the catch via the admin panel but this does not always get rid of all the temporary files used.
Here are step:

SocialEngine 4: Advanced Menu System – Site Load Slow Fix

Last Updated on Monday, 18 February 2013 04:33 Written by Andrew Cross Wednesday, 20 February 2013 12:00

I ask myself why Advanced Menu System slow site loading. And after a scan for errors I found an error in
one of requested files. That file is total.php located in:

application/modules/Advmenusystem/externals/scripts/

When I opened the file i found this specific line: