ExpressionEngine 2.0 Sneak Preview
We are very close, very close of, fresh 2.0 release of this great CMS. EllisLab is working very hard on new version of ExpressionEngine, and they are giving some sneak previews, so the actual and future users can see what its coming.
Of course, all the videos, are still only "beta" demos, I hope that will be published very soon as they promised. It has many new things, personally, I'm glad that they improved or added; wysiwyg editor, better organization of uploaded files, fancy moving elements, more user-friendly custom fields etc…
Removing index.php from URLs for better SEO optimization, htaccess, PHP 5.2.6 and ExpressionEngine
Finally my site runs at PHP5, MySql 5. As I announced few months ago, but that happened few days ago. We can feel a little speed up, but besides that, and of course new PHP5 features, there is all like before.
As there is always "but", I experienced some little headache problems. My rewrite rule for removing index.php from URL just stopped working. In that moment I didn’t knew that the update already happened. I was using tutorial from the wiki page of ExpressionEngine
Old rewrite rule:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php/$1 [L]
If you had un update of php version to 5.2.6 like me, you can try this solution. This worked for me:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php?/$1 [L]
NOTE: The blue question mark after index.php. This is working on HostGator servers, maybe for some strange reason, is not working on your site/server.
More about the solution at ExpressionEngine Forum
Upgrading mysql database and php
This month my host company will upgrade mysql database to version 5 and make PHP5 part of the standard working environment. I’m not expecting any kind of problems for now. Maybe a little downtime while they are doing geek stuff with the database.
Until now, I didn't heard that anyone had troubles with ExpressionEngine. They sad he works only faster after upgrading. We'll see.
Cosmosart, fresh refresh
After almost a year and a half, some serious change was made. Site width was moved from 800px to 1024px. I stopped with optimising site for viewing it in IE6 (IE6 is dead, you know). News are more organised, now with categories and comments.
I gave up on doing my CMS, testing it, testing his security etc. So, thanks to great folks from EllisLab, and their great cms called ExpressionEngine, finally I have decent and fully flexible web publishing system.
