mojoPortal Tips: Installing SSL on Your Arvixe-Hosted mojoPortal Site

Last Updated on Tuesday, 12 June 2012 02:39 Written by Carole Bennett Sunday, 17 June 2012 12:00

With all the different ways we can add e-commerce capability to mojoPortal, it’s important to make sure you’ve implemented SSL for your mojoPortal-based website. We’ll go through the steps to order and implement SSL for your mojoPortal site hosted with Arvixe.

Step 1:  Make sure you know the domain name you’ll be using. If the site is already live, that’s usually a foregone conclusion, but if it’s not live yet, or you may be using a variant for your e-commerce area, be sure that you’ve got the right domain name identified before you place your order.

Step 2: Send your order via e-mail request to [email protected] – you’ll want to request the SSL cert, as well as an additional IP address. Your request should contain the following info:

mojoPortal 201: Using MegaGallery for mojoPortal

Last Updated on Tuesday, 29 May 2012 01:55 Written by Carole Bennett Monday, 4 June 2012 12:00

mojoPortal is a robust, full-featured CMS (Content Management System); it’s a featured app in the Windows Web App Gallery, and powers thousands of websites. It comes with a wide range of built-in functionality: forums, blogs, surveys, version control and workflow, and multimedia support. But one of the best reasons to use mojoPortal is the support for plugins that leverage the built-in properties of mojoPortal, and allow extended functionality to be added on to an existing mojoPortal-based site. Today, we’ll cover one of the newest plugins, the MegaGallery plugin by IndigoTea.

MegaGallery is an alternative to the built-in Image Gallery that’s bundled into mojoPortal.  While the built-in Image Gallery is a great way to display images, it does have some limitations. MegaGallery allows an unlimited number of galleries and albums to be displayed on a single page, as well as allowing friendly URLs to be created for each album. Because it leverages jCarousel and Gallerific, both jQuery-based, the display can be adjusted via CSS. The slideshow isn’t dependent on Silverlight, allowing users to view it without the need for additional plugins.

To explain how the MegaGallery works, we’ll step through the parts of the process of using MegaGallery to display images.

Adding A MegaGallery to Your Page

MojoPortal: 500 – Internal Server Error

Last Updated on Monday, 28 November 2011 03:07 Written by Ian McIntosh Monday, 5 December 2011 12:00

I recently encountered a 500 internal server error that took me a while to get to the bottom of, so I thought I would blog about it. The 500 error is a generic error message that can be displayed for many reasons, this article talks about one specific cause of the error message.

Firstly I will explain the symptoms I saw and how I resolved the issue. Then I will go on to explain how I managed a more helpful error message which may be useful if you encounter a similar, but not the same, issue.

When I first published a new local website, I navigated to the homepage only to be greeted with the error ‘500 Internal Server Error’. When I tried to open control panel, I found that too was crashing, with the above error.

mojoPortal 101: Adding and Editing Content

Last Updated on Monday, 28 November 2011 03:28 Written by Carole Bennett Saturday, 3 December 2011 12:00

mojoPortal is a terrific CMS (content management system); one of the best things that a CMS has to offer is the ability to allow users to edit their own content, without the need to possess advanced HTML skills.  Editing your own content in mojoPortal is quick and easy!

We’ll go through the steps to demonstrate how to edit content in mojoPortal, including how to add images to your content. This tutorial requires that you have a working instance of mojoPortal, and are logged into the website as a use with access rights to edit content (check with your web administrator to make sure).

First, we’ll go over the steps to add new content to a page. Once you’re logged into your site, you’ll see an administration menu at the bottom of the page; click on “Edit This Page”.

mojoPortal Tip: An Effortless Slideshow in Under 5 Minutes

Last Updated on Monday, 28 November 2011 03:26 Written by Carole Bennett Thursday, 1 December 2011 12:00

In an earlier tutorial, we covered how to embed a jQuery UI-based rotator on-the-fly in mojoPortal; today, we’ll cover how to use the built-in support for slideshows that can be created quickly and easily.