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htaccess - Best practice-version for EE5?

You will need that rule, nothing has changed with the requirement of using mod_rewrite to remove the index.php portion of your URL for your site installation. You still need to direct all non-file/...
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Select with Field

You are using this inside a channel entry loop, correct? If not, you need to be. And you might also try using the other field segements: {exp:channel:entries channel="...
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ExpressionEngine 5 -Maximum number of entries

Yep it is still there. Go to Developer/Channels and edit a channel (or create a new one) - the Maximum number of entries value is the third setting field down on the "Channel" tab (i.e. the first one ...
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Moving "templates" folder in EE5

There are clear instructions on how to move not just the templates but the whole of the system folder above the HTML root in the EE documentation. HTH
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Entries tag search:fieldtype=""

To use search parameter in Grid you have to add search parameter in grid fieldtype not in Channel entries tag. You can get more information from below example. https://docs.expressionengine.com/latest/...
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Private pages for users

Yes private pages are easily do-able. There are numerous approaches, here's one using a template to control who can view content. Create a template and add some conditional tags to determine if the ...
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How can I share templates files between sites in EE5?

There isn't an EE solution to this problem. When being able to set your template folder path for each MSM site went away, there was growing pains for all. But at the end of the day, if you have a good ...
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SuperSearch Install Error

SuperSearch has been obsolete for quite sometime (didn't make it past v2) and will not run on newer versions of EE. Try Low Search.
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Channel entries search by custom field

The channel entries call you are using to retrieve the custom field would need some more parameters to work - you need to give it some sort of channel or entry information for EE to work out what ...
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How can I get EE to showing new programatically created entries immediately away after creation?

So it is a partial answer - it seems that the issue is managing the time it takes for EE to respond to the AJAX request. So for now I've fixed this by making the AJAX request synchronous... vis ...
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Error in admin.php or system/index.php when trying to upgrade to 5.4.0

Hard to tell from your question what actually is going on, but here is a suggestion for a way forward: Download a clean copy of EE 5.4 Create a clean / new install of EE 5.4 on some test system Copy ...
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Redirect url from /blog/singlepage/entry_id to /blog/singlepage/url-title

It would be possible, if you don't mind doing a page reload as part of the process. EE can find an entry with just the url_title or entry_id, so all you need to do is create a default template that is ...
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Upload Image/File Modal Empty, Potential JS Error in index.php?

It looks like something may be tripping up a mod_security rule on the server, that can happen from time to time if the rules are too strict. How to check: Make the error happen using the field, make ...
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ExpressionEngine with Publisher and NavEE

The issue with fields not populating will be hard to diagnose without you providing more information about how the fields were defined and how you are trying to access them / include in templates. As ...
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Adding Pagination causes 500 Server Error

Pagination in EE works by adding a segment to the end of your URI - so my guess is that you have an issue with routing. Try loading your template with the pagination block removed (i.e. so you get the ...
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What is the updated version of assign_variable?

The best way of creating transient values within a template is through EE's built in layout variable system. Layout variables can be defined as single values or as part of an addressable array, and ...
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Trouble saving templates especially if there are more than a few lines in it

This sounds like a Mod Security issue. If your web host has strict mod_sec rules doing some things in EE can trigger them. I'd suggest making the error happen, making a note of the it happens, then ...
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Private pages for users

EE doc search works pretty well these days, and the info is all there. Login and registration: https://docs.expressionengine.com/latest/member/index.html Member groups: https://docs.expressionengine....
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Can't upload PPT file; Getting "File not allowed"

There are a few mime types for .ppt files, try adding these: .ppt application/mspowerpoint .ppt application/powerpoint .ppt application/vnd.ms-powerpoint .ppt application/x-...
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Preview is broken EE5

Seems to be a server parameter setting, update, from ICU lib I encountered this issue too, this problem may not be always related to PHP version, I have seen the problem on my customer server with ...
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Good EE5 single sign-on solutions?

If your intention is simply to allow other authentication schemes to act as mechanisms for gaining access to EE, you might get what you need from the "Social Sign In" plugin from Reinos.nl This does ...
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Add single link item to menu without user needing to log in again

This is possible - I have a similar link on one of my sites that uses CT. All you need to do is create a single link using this for the URL cp/addons/settings/cartthrob_order_manager HTH PS - ...
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Smart Members Pro checkbox field not parsing in view profile tag

For the benefit of anyone with the same question I have the correct code for displaying a checkbox or multi-select field. This information is not in the documentation as of Oct. 2019 {exp:...
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Simple Contact form returning "Forbidden (403) CSRF verification failed. Request aborted." on submission

OK, I just solved this. I've got 2 urls, one redirects to the other. Base path was set wrong in URL and path settings (set to the redirecting url) Works fine once I updated the settings.
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Fluid Fields Not Working

Fluid fields are designed to allow the user creating a channel entry to choose which fields are included in the entry. So when you are designing your template you cannot make assumptions about which ...
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InnoDB or MyISAM - What's the "correct" database storage engine for EE4/EE5?

EE now defaults to using InnoDB type tables in MySQL. The docs have instructions on how one can convert MyISAM tables to InnoDB (here). Whether it makes any difference on an average site is moot, ...
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EE 5 - Code snippet in template appearing and disappearing on website

I figured it out. That include was a copy of another include, and so permissions were reset to none. Meaning no one could see it, but if I logged in to check the templates involved, suddenly it ...
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Channel entries without URL field

Automatic creation of unique URL titles was a built-in feature of EE in v2. Apparently it was removed with v3. You can see some discussion of the issue on this bug report https://expressionengine.com/...
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Search for multiple custom fields - EE 5.0.x

The standard search features of EE do not support much refinement of the search itself beyond specifying which channel to search within. If what you want to do is adjust what gets displayed once ...
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Simple Registration very slow response times

This appears to have been a problem with my server config running the queries slowly, not with Expression Engine or the Simple Registration plugin. It's odd that this problem occurred when upgrading ...
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