Installation Help

No editable areas

I have successfully installed C5 but I have a weird issue. When my pages are in edit mode I can see the editable areas but I can't click on them. They're outlined and they say "add to Main", "add to Navigation", etc, but when I click the areas nothing h…

Database credentials: connect to a non-standard MySQL port

Hello, I'd like C5 to connect to a MySQL server which runs on a non-standard port. How would I do that? I've tried config/site.php: define('DB_SERVER', 'localhost:3333'); It seems that the colon and everything after it is ignored. I can even writ…

Site is EXTREMELY slow

I have followed every suggestion to help fix my site. I am now at my technical end. The site is pinevalleyhoa.org hosted on a shared server with dreamhost. I have never had performance issues before and dreamhost has been very helpful. Their last repl…

Dashboard broken after 5.5 Update

I not new to C5 and this 5.5 Update. But I updated an old site from 5.4 to 5.5.2.1 and the Dashboard view is breaking and I can not edit the page, and the first row is moved down... I removed the toolbar and underneath I found the two old buttons: Edi…

Cannot connect to the community

Hi, I've recently moved my C5 installation to another directory and have received the 'Connect to the Community' page. However when I try to enter my C5 username and password (the same ones I used to log in to post this query) I get attached error messa…

localhost IIS install of C5 - error 500 Invalid character

I've been looking through these forums and through the bug tracker, but couldn't find anything on this error I am getting with IIS 7.5 This is a fresh install of C5 and I opted for the sample data, as this is my first attempt to play around with C5 (ju…

need help installing or update c5 on plesk under windows

hi - i see that there is a c5 installion under plesk - fantastic ! however it is 5.4.x. is there anyone here that can help me either install 5.5.x under plesk (windows server version), or update the 5.4.x to 5.5.x ? am more than willing to pay fo…

"Default" permissions on a server

So I uploaded my site then stupidly changed the permissions to 755 recursively. Now I'm afraid that it opens up the site to attacks. What are the default permissions? I know that config and files need 755 or 777 (which one?), but what about the othe…

Our IT system hates Concrete!

Hi all. I'm new to C5, but from what I've seen of it so far, I can already see the need to replace our terrible, terrible, dated, awful, terrible websites with shiny new, post-2.0 C5-based ones, however the sites are actually a perfect outward representa…

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