Installing MODX at Arvixe – Part II

Last Updated on Tuesday, 26 March 2013 10:38 Written by Bob Ray Wednesday, 27 March 2013 12:00

In Part I of this tutorial, we uploaded the MODX files to the server. Now, it’s time to create the MODX Database. If you ran the MODX setup script at this point, it would attempt to create the database for you. On some servers this will work, but even if it does, on many servers (including Arvixe) you’d end up with a Latin1 character set and a collation or latin1_swedish_ci. For odd historical reasons, this is the MySQL default. It can work if your language is English and you never need a foreign word on your site, but sooner or later, you’re going to need to use a word with an accented character that doesn’t play well with Latin1.

The recommended character set and collation for MODX is utf-8 and utf8_general_ci, so I always set up the MODX database ahead of time on order to make sure that the database uses that character set.

Installing MODX at Arvixe – Part I

Last Updated on Monday, 25 March 2013 11:11 Written by Bob Ray Tuesday, 26 March 2013 12:00

In Part I of Installing MODX, we’ll look at how to get the MODX files on the Arvixe server, though the steps should cover installation on almost any server.

Downloading the Files

How to Install Silverstripe 2.4 Manually

Last Updated on Monday, 18 March 2013 08:34 Written by Teet Bergmann Monday, 18 March 2013 12:00

This post is for users who want to install Silverstripe 2.4 manually.

1. Go to http://www.silverstripe.org/security-releases/ and download the latest 2.4.x installation files.
2. Upload the zipped file to your website root folder using cPanel’s File manager or your FTP program

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:

Plugin Spotlight For WordPress For Febuary 2013: Jetpack by WordPress.com : And How to Install Jetpack!

Last Updated on Friday, 8 March 2013 12:27 Written by TJ Marsh Friday, 1 March 2013 12:00

Jetpack is a WordPress plugin that supercharges your self-hosted WordPress site with the awesome cloud power of WordPress.com.

Features include: