Backend developer

Building inspecting testing and diagnosing Zotonic applications and modules.

• Development and debugging
• Erlang/OTP
• Site management

• Add a supervised Erlang worker
• A saved change does not appear
• A site does not start

Creating configuring updating starting and stopping Zotonic sites.

• Site management
• Configuration
• Development and debugging

• addsite: Create a site application from a skeleton
• Application startup and per-site module activation
• A site does not start

Defining site module runtime and service settings.

• Configuration
• Site management
• Erlang/OTP

• A site does not start
• Change a runtime setting deliberately
• config: Display configuration resolved from files

Installing activating configuring upgrading and removing Zotonic modules.

• Module management

• A module is discovered but not active
• A module is missing from the admin
• Application startup and per-site module activation

Recording and observing events errors state health and performance.

• Logging and monitoring
• Erlang/OTP
• Performance

• A page is slow
• etop: Inspect active Erlang processes
• Inspect logs and running processes

Preserving and recovering site data media and configuration.

• Backup and restore

• Back up and restore site data
• backup: List, create, or restore backups
• decrypt: Decrypt a local encrypted backup file

Persisting media previews archives and other managed files locally or remotely.

• File storage
• File store

• An uploaded image does not display
• Configure persistent file storage
• Runtime data and uploaded files

Verifying the identity of a user client or service.

• Authentication

• Choose a destination after signup
• Reset a user password from the shell
• resetratelimit: Reset a site rate limiter

Determining which users may view change or administer resources and operations.

• Authorization and access control
• Security

• Keep permission checks at the boundary
• Test with different users
• Work with a site context

Documentation not covered by the other keyword groups in this split.

• Text
• Forms

• Add a contact form
• Connect resources and preserve order
• Create a reusable browser action