Technical Tips and Tricks
Useful technical tips to make your development life easier
Over many years of software development we've often found ourselves stuck on a specific issue or problem that holds us up.
We always try to document what our solution was, because quite often we found ourselves back in the same place facing the same problem.
So we decided to share these tips and tricks here.
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Creating an ExpressionEngine site on Linux
Some little things to remember
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ExpressionEngine Freezes when I use a Partial
Be careful how you name your template partials.
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Form not submitting to Freeform
Form posts with a 200 but nothing is submitted, no errors, nothing!
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Git: Ignore a Folder but Include a Single File
A handy pattern for .gitignore
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Getting Captcha Working on Linux
Check your PHP modules.
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Multiple php versions with 8.1 on Apache
Install multiple versions and switch between them
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ExpressionEngine White Screen of Death
How to diagnose the problem when debug doesn't work
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Field Types Trick when Upgrading ExpressionEngine from 2.x to new
A few tips to make things go smoothly.
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Remmina RDP unable to connect to server
Solving server connection problems.
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Windows 7 64bit guest on VirtualBox
Running windows in a virtual machine
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ExpressionEngine upgrade 2.7.1 to 2.9.0
Ironing out some database issues.
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Setting up Samba Shares
Configuration file tips.
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Mapping Samba Drives
Accessing Samba from Windows
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Transcribe tips
Easier multi-lingual sites.
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Using SafeCracker with AJAX and Solspace Calendar
A great combination with a few gotchas!
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Creating Navigation Using Structure
A flexible way to organise pages and create navigation.
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Thumbnails aren’t Created in EE on a Windows Installation
Upload path directory separators may be to blame
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Can’t Get a Template to Load from File
EE Insists on loading from the database
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How to Remove index.php on IIS
Web Config for ExpressionEngine
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File Cannot Be Written To Disk
Error when trying to upload a PDF in ExpressionEngine
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Error 500.0 Internal Server Error
ExpressionEngine and IIS7.5
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Unable to Load Site Preferences
A Possible ExpressionEngine Database Login Problem
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CP Loses Its Styling
Did you change the name of your themes folder?
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Your Config File Does Not Appear to be Formatted Correctly
A very unhelpful ExpressionEngine error message