Lars Fischer

Hosting Already a while ago I moved this website to Git and Netlify because hosting on S3 did not provide all the features needed (like https and certain domain name redirects). Netlify integrates very well with the static site generator HUGO and Git and also provides free SSL encrpytion and a nice administration interface. Except for the domain name, there is no money charged for the services! Theming With the move to Netlify I applied the “Mediumish Theme” but I modified it with some ugly hacks so with the current update I moved to the Chaschper HUGO theme kindly provided by Jens-Christian. ...

It seems there are more and more people not wanting to rely on services provided by one of the internet giants because of data protection or legal issues. And one of the most essential services for a professional website is surely analytics. The most prominent tool for website analytics comes from Google and it is widely used. As CMS vendor with a “best of breed” approach Magnolia provides modules for the integration of Google Analytics and Magnolia. ...

This article is about developing with Magnolia and PostgreSQL as persistence layer under MacOS. It show’s how to setup your machine and provide a Magnolia configuration to make use of a Postgres database. Install PostgreSQL If you don’t already have a running Postgres database engine, I recommend to download the following tools: Postgres.app Optional: pgAdmin Optional: pgweb (make sure you download the darwin version) Install Postgres.app, initialize the server and start the Postgres service. ...

Sometimes editors want to know where big assets are “hidden” in Magnolia DAM. For a project I quickly created a Groovy script for creating a report listing assets ordered by size. I used Magnolia’s Groovy App to develop and test the script: Groovy script import javax.jcr.PropertyIterator import javax.jcr.Property import java.text.NumberFormat import java.text.DecimalFormat import org.apache.commons.lang3.StringUtils def assetPath = "/" session = MgnlContext.getJCRSession('dam') root = session.getNode(assetPath) // sep char for importing into Numbers / Excel sep = ";" numberPatternMB = "###. ...

This post serves as documentation on how to setup Magnolia CMS with the LDAP Connector module connected to ApacheDS. Especially for testing, ApacheDS is very handy to setup and it provides a user interface to get started fast. In addition to that, it’s also much easier to remove from your machine than software libraries spread all over your system. Testing environment macOS High Sierra ApacheDS 2.0.0 Magnolia CMS Enterprise Edition 5. ...

Before you go on The changes described in this article are primarily for educational and learning purposes. The current logic used when renaming websites and assets in Magnolia is not a bug, it’s wanted behavior. There still might be cases when a customer requests pre-existing functionality, so the solution described here might be helpful for you - but as always: Do extensive testing when changing core Magnolia configuration and use the samples at your own risk! ...