IndexU Support

Some users choose to remove a number of items from IndexU in order to save on page size, but something that they don’t know, is they really aren’t saving on page size, they’re only making the content hidden!

Hidden content isn’t always a bad thing, unless you’re trying to stuff keywords into your site and you get busted by a search engine.

In IndexU there are a number of things that users disable to save on page size.

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Saving on page size is a great way to keep users coming back, because no one likes a page that takes long to load. This tip can help shave off those unwanted bytes and keep your site loading quickly.

Some users have experienced blank pages after installation. These blank pages were both in the admin area and the main site.

This issue has typically occurred after an upgrade.

I recently encountered a user having this issue. The user upgraded from v5.10 to 5.40 and was faced with blank pages everywhere. A check of phpinfo found that there were no issues.

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One tip that you should never forget to do is to password protect your admin directory.

Why you ask? Well for myself I have a number of custom scripts in the admin panel and I would hate to see those run by users that shouldn’t run them. In some cases they could damage the entire site by using them.

If you have access to a control panel for your domain then you should see something like “password protect a directory”. Simply choose to password protect the /admin/ dir and all is well.

Another error that’s popped up a number of times lately is this one

*Fatal error*: Call to a member function on a non-object in *
/filters/filter.gzip_compression.php* on line *0*

This is another easy fix

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It seems lately that I’ve heard from a lot of users on Windows (IIS) hosting. They all seem to have issues with 500 errors.

The cause of this issue is quite simple really

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There are many things you can do with .htaccess, here are some tips

First, make sure that any changes you make are AFTER the following code in .htaccess

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This will show you how to add a link to the sitemap in the Admin Panel in case you want to run the sitemap manually. There are many reasons to run the sitemap manually, such as when first submitting your site to Google Sitemaps or other similar services or after you have made major changes to the site and do not want to wait for cron to update the sitemap (if you have that enabled).

This will work in version 5.4 and will work in earlier versions, but the line number may be different.

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One of the things that IndexU is sorely missing is a link to go back to the file you were just working on when editing templates. This quick addition to the code will solve that issue in v5.4. It will work in previous version as well, but the line number may be different.

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