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Backing up your Composr Installation
A task which you should not overlook is backing up your Composr website. Should anything happen to your website without a backup, it can result in a loss of a huge amount of data.
Cloning your site
How to clone your website to create a testing copy.
Professional upgrading
A professional process for updating a customer website.
Moving sites
How to move a site from one server to another.
Uninstalling Composr from a server
We don't want you to uninstall Composr, but we provide a script for you to do it with. We're that nice.
Cleanup tools
Been editing files manually, and need to force Composr to "empty its caches"? We show you how.
Staging Servers
Some advice about using a staging server.
Disaster recovery
Some 'life saving' solutions to disastrous scenarios that can happen on an unstable web server configuration.
Manually editing your database with phpMyAdmin
A primer on databases, and how SQL is used to connect to them - as well as practical advice on using phpMyAdmin.
Optimising Performance
Composr is very heavily optimised for high performance out-of-the-box, but here are some advanced performance tips.
How to Close or Open Your Composr Website
You'll want to use the closed site feature if your site is new and you want to keep it temporarily closed, or you want to close your site while performing maintenance. This tutorial explains how it works.
Theme Lifecycle
How the files in a theme are managed, from initial theme creation, through upgrades.
How to Conduct an Upgrade in Composr
A regular task you will need to do is upgrading your Composr website to the latest version of the software. This tutorial explains the basic process.
Backing up your site
How to backup your website (be it using our backup module, or otherwise), and why it is so important to do it.
Using diff tools to upgrade an ocPortal theme
How to use a diff tool to find changes made in a theme, or upgrade the files in a theme.
Performing an upgrade
Important background information that will help you keep your website up-to-date with the latest Composr.
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