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How to run concrete5 behind CloudFlare and AWS ELB
This is valid after concrete5.7. Since implementing Symfony framework, concrete5 is equipped with IP check. If the user changed the originated IP address, concrete5 will log you out. However, this security measurement doesn’t go well with advanced load balancer such as AWS Elastic Load Balancer or CloudFlare. From concrete5’s POV, it can only see the…
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concrete5 Japan community-base free theme “Stucco” and free add-on “Manual Nav” are now available
concrete5 has very strong community base in Japan. It’s because there are a number of people who believe in open source, and concrete5 Japan was able to organize the strong user base. Recently, concrete5 Japan is trying to bridge the language barrier of marketplace, and succeeded in releasing a free theme, “Stucco” and a free…
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Sakura Internet, Japan’s major hosting, recognizes concrete5 by offering auto-installer before Drupal and Joomla
On Feb 2, 2016, Japan’s hosting giant, Sakura Internet started offering quick install of concrete5 CMS. Sakura Internet may be like the combination of Dreamhost and MediaTemple. They are the pioneer to introduce inexpensive shared hosting, affordable VPS, cloud, and IoT hosting to the Japanese market. Although Sakura Internet provides innovative services, the shared hosting department…
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concrete5 Auto Backup Server Shell Script
I just made this concrete5 auto-backup shell script. This is simple shell script to back up your concrete5.7.x site. This is the script that runs on your server. MIT LICENSE and NO GUARANTEE This script is licensed under The MIT License. USE IT AT YOUR OWN RISK. Set-up Go to GitHub and download concrete5-backup.sh. Add your…
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Finally Polyglot Industry is Happening in Japan
There were many events about multilingual and translation in the end of the month and Tokyo. (I wanted to write this blog post because I wanted to try out YarakuZen service. This blog post may be hard to read. Sorry if you feel so in advanced 🙂 ) On 10/29 (Thu) I decided to re-schedule…
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Multilingual WordPress and Very Important Message from WordCamp Kansai 2015
On July 25~26, 2015, I had an opportunity to speak at WordCamp Kansai 2015 to talk about the multilingualization of WordPress. Every year, the team of WordPress Nagoya community members car-pool and attend WordCamp Kansai event. This is our 4th time to do so since 2011. WordCamp Kansai 2015 was taking place at Osaka University,…
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concrete5 TinyMCE Office Config Sample for 5.6.x and earlier
This is the simple copy of concrete5.6.3.2 Office setting of TinyMCE. When you want to customize the buttons of concrete5 TinyMCE editor, you need to create your own config text file. If you feel you’re troublesome, you may want to subtract the options from Office Theme from concrete5. I’ve created this option for you. Git…
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It’s not about concrete5 vs WordPress
Too many concrete5 events happening again in Japan in Oct. So many people are interested in concrete5 now. This is the shout-out from Japan. I wish I had more time to write about how Japanese people started to embrace concrete5 CMS. concrete5 is absolutely the best CMS over WordPress for the web site that requires…
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concrete5: How to grow an open source community in Japan
I had an urge to think about the concrete5 community and looking back my past 5 years and next 5 years. Growing concrete5 from scratch in Japan When I started the concrete5 community in Japan. It was virtually the start from the scratch, learning PHP, how to translate the software, and organizing an open source community.…
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How to run multiple concrete5 installs on a single core (Apache vhost config)
First, you need VPS or dedicated Apache server that you have root access. Then create symbolic links to point to one core. Sometime, the shared server may let you do so if you have a SSH access. This information is as of May 21, 2014. 1. Create /concrete/ & /updates/ folder where you save your…