SiteDash Client is a companion to the SiteDash service, by modmore. 

SiteDash gives you an overview of all your MODX sites, including information about your installed MODX version and installed extras, server details, and key configuration. The SiteDash Client package facilitates the secure communication between SiteDash and your site. 

If SiteDash detects a potential problem, it also sends you an alert via email and the built-in Action Center. Alerts include, for example:

• Core folder left unprotected
• Setup folder not removed
• Disk space usage is approaching the limit
• Error log is huge

To use the Client, you need to create a SIteDash account first. See plans and pricing here. Next, login, and create a new site in the dashboard. That will provide you with the Site Key that you need to enter when installing the client package.

Installation Instructions

SiteDash Client 1.1.0-pl

Released on 2019-02-27

• Backups will now be compressed into a zip file to preserve space
• Return the upgrade logs when checking php executable fails
• Catch error when creating a new process [S19510]
• Fix unpacking the MODX zip on servers with NFS [S19512]
• Fix root files being placed in a deeply nested directory instead of the root [#65]

SiteDash Client 1.0.2-pl

Released on 2019-02-25

• Log the used PHP executable before running the upgrade
• Log if the PHP executable couldn't be determined and it's falling back to "php"

SiteDash Client 1.0.1-pl

Released on 2019-02-22

• Add check for the proc_get_status function; without it, we can't check the status of the executed command
• Make sure a failed backup sets the proper response code
• Prevent fatal error in refresh when the database connection is unavailable

SiteDash Client 1.0.0-pl

Released on 2018-12-10

• Downgrade symfony/process to 3.4.20 to support PHP 5.5.9+
• Provide the server with the assets_url to automatically support non-standard assets directories
• Backup process no longer depends on exec(), instead using proc_open (like upgrade) which has some wider server support

SiteDash Client 1.0.0-rc4

Released on 2018-11-29

• Try to automatically find the mysqldump executable before accepting the mysqldump_binary setting
• If the php executable can't automatically be determined, use simply php and assume it's available
• Check if the exec() function is available before trying the backup

SiteDash Client 1.0.0-rc3

Released on 2018-11-28

• Use Symfony/Process to run the setup for better security and stability
• Increase download timeout from 15 to 90 seconds

SiteDash Client 1.0.0-rc2

Released on 2018-11-27

• Loosen shell escaping to prevent issues with complex passwords not working for the backup
• Fix incorrect default for sitedashclient.php_binary setting
• Fix upgrade on advanced distributions where the core folder has been moved or a custom config key is used

SiteDash Client 1.0.0-rc1

Released on 2018-11-27

• First beta version of upgrading the MODX core!
• Make sure invalid requests still return a valid JSON response
• Add file hasher to use for validating upgrades and for keeping an eye on files changing unexpectedly
• Add backup command to create a local backup of the database and critical files
• Settings for PHP and mysqldump binaries to use

SiteDash Client 0.7.0-pl

Released on 2018-08-02

• Make sure that packages have their names normalised when being loaded to fix inconsistencies
• Update default server url to the new SiteDash.app domain
• Now also reports the core path, base url/path and connectors url/path

SiteDash Client 0.6.0-pl

Released on 2018-07-24

• Public release. Can update itself, too!

SiteDash Client 0.6.0-rc1

Released on 2018-07-24

• Implement remote package upgrades
• Prevent E_WARN getting logged to the error log if disk_free_space or disk_total_space is in the disabled functions

SiteDash Client 0.5.0-pl

Released on 2018-05-29

• Add session table health check to refresh
• Add a repair table command to allow the session table, and others, to be remotely repaired from SiteDash
• Add a database check that looks at all database tables for their status and used collations
• Fix the namespace assets_path not being set correctly (even though that's not used anywhere)

SiteDash Client 0.4.2-pl

Released on 2018-02-28

• Fix overwriting authentication on upgrade to 0.4.1 (only for installs from modx.com) [S16309]

SiteDash Client 0.4.1-pl

Released on 2018-02-25

• Fix "core out of webroot" check causing false negatives.

SiteDash Client 0.4.0-pl

Released on 2017-11-22

• Now supports downloading the error log contents
• Client Version is now reported to SiteDash so it can detect what features are available

SiteDash Client 0.3.1-pl

Released on 2017-09-26

• Now also includes the core folder if it isn't outside the webroot, so the server can check if it's protected when renamed

SiteDash Client 0.3.0-pl

Released on 2017-09-24

• First packaged build