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General Settings tab

Overview
Configure general settings for specific Tiki features

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From the General Admin page, click the General Settings tab.


7.x
General Settings tab
General Settings tab

Setting Description Default
Server
Temporary directory Directory on your server, relative to your Tiki installation, for storing temporary files. Tiki must have full read and write access to this directory. temp
Use proxy Specify if Tiki requires a proxy to access the internet. If enabled, you can specify your proxy Host name (either with or without the http:// prefix) and Port settings. Disabled
Multi-domain
Multi-domain Use to map domain names to perspectives in order to simulate multiple domains.
If enabled, use the Multi-domain Configuration area to specify the domains (one per line with the associated perspective ID)
Disabled
Sessions
Session storage location Specify if session data will be stored in the database or memcahce (memory). instead of memory. Use this feature to share load between servers. Default (from php.ini files)
Session lifetime Specify the session time. (0 will use the default session.gc_maxlifetime, defined in php.ini). If session uses files, the files will go in the temporary directory. 0
Session cookie name Name of the cookie for the session. Will override the default PHP configuration. PHPSESSID
Site Terminal
Site Terminal .
If enabled, use the Site Terminal Configuration area to specify the network prefixes (one per line, using CIDR notation)
Disabled
Contact
Contact Us Enables the Contact Us feature. If enabled, you can also specify to Allow anonymous visitor sto use the "Contact Us" feature and to which User to send the contact messages.
Tip Tip: You can use Trackers to create custom Contact Us forms.
Disabled
Stats
Stats If enabled, Tiki will maintain a page with basic statistics (such as number and size of wiki pages, days online, and so on) Disabled
Referrer stats If enabled, Tiki will maintain a list of site referrals to your Tiki Disabled
Count admin pageviews If enabled, page views when logged in as the admin will be included in the overall site statistics. Disabled
Print
PDF from URL Specify how Tiki will create PDFs of pages.
If using Webkit you must include the path (relative to your Tiki installation) of the wkhtmltopdf application. If using Webservice, include the full URL to the webservice API.
Disabled
Miscellaneous
Help system If enabled, Tiki includes help links (Help ) to the Tiki documentation.
If enabled, you can specify a Help URL that contains customzied help pages. By default, the Help system uses http://doc.tiki.org/
Enabled


6.x

General Settings tab
General Settings tab

Setting Description Default
Server
Temporary directory Directory on your server, relative to your Tiki installation, for storing temporary files. Tiki must have full read and write access to this directory. temp
Use proxy Specify if Tiki requires a proxy to access the internet. If enabled, you can specify your proxy Host and Port settings. Disabled
Multi-domain
Multi-domain Use to map domain names to perspectives in order to simulate multiple domains.
If enabled, use the Multi-domain Configuration area to specify the domains (one per line)
Disabled
Site Terminal
Site Terminal .
If enabled, use the Site Terminal Configuration area to specify the network prefixes (one per line, using CIDR notation)
Disabled
Contact Us
Contact Us Enables the Contact Us feature. If enabled, you can also specify to Allow anonymous visitor sto use the "Contact Us" feature and to which User to send the contact messages.
Tip Tip: You can use Trackers to create custom Contact Us forms.
Disabled
Stats
Stats If enabled, Tiki will maintain a page with basic statistics (such as number and size of wiki pages, days online, and so on) Disabled
Referrer stats If enabled, Tiki will maintain a list of site referrals to your Tiki Disabled
Count admin pageviews If enabled, page views when logged in as the admin will be included in the overall site statistics. Disabled
Print
PDF from URL Specify how Tiki will create PDFs of pages.
If using Webkit you must include the path (relative to your Tiki installation) of the wkhtmltopdf application. If using Webservice, include the full URL to the webservice API.
Disabled
Miscellaneous
Help system If enabled, Tiki includes help links (Help ) to the Tiki documentation.
If enabled, you can specify a Help URL that contains customzied help pages. By default, the Help system uses http://doc.tiki.org/
Enabled


3.x

Setting Description
Close site Use this setting to "close" your Tiki (such as for maintenance). Users attempting to access your site will see only a login. Only users with specific permission will be allowed to log in.

Use the Message to display to specify the message that visitors will see when attempting to access your site.
Close site when server load is above the threshold Use this option to "close" your Tiki when the server load exceeds a specific threshold. Only users with specific permission will be allowed to log in.

Use Maximum average server load threshold in the last minute to define the maximum server load.

Use the Message to display to specify the message that visitors will see when attempting to access your site.
Use proxy Specify if your server requires a proxy to access external web pages (i.e. to cache them). If selected, specify the Proxy Host and Proxy Port.
On permission denied, display login module
Performance
Cache external pages Specify if external pages are cached and stored on your server.
Cache external images Specify if external images are cached and stored on your server.
GZip output Specify if Tiki should use GZIP to compress pages before sending them to the user's browser. Selecting this option will reduce your site's bandwidth usage. See Compression for more information.
Session
Store session data in database Specify if session data will be stored in the database instead of memory. Use this feature to share load between servers.
Session lifetime Specify the session time. (0 will use the default session.gc_maxlifetime, defined in php.ini). If session uses files, the files will go in the temporary directory.
Server
Temporary directory:
Use proxy
Host: (You need to set Use proxy)
Port: (You need to set Use proxy)
Multi-domain
Multi-domain (You need to set Perspectives)
Multi-domain Configuration: One domain per line. Comma separated with perspective ID. Ex.: tiki.org,1
Contact
Allow anonymous visitors to use the "Contact Us" feature
Contact user Specify the user who receives mail from the Contact Us feature. You must enable the Contact Us feature on the Features Admin page.
Stats
Stats
Referer Stats
Count admin pageviews
Print
PDF from url Disabled | Webkit (wkhtmltopdf) | Webservice. You need to either Install wkhtmltopdf (http://code.google.com/p/wkhtmltopdf/) on your server, in which case you enter the appropriate path, or Use a PDF webservice (in which case you add the URL)
Webkit path: path to wkhtmltopdf in your server (download it from http://code.google.com/p/wkhtmltopdf/)
Webservice URL: url for the PDF webservice that you want to use.
Miscellaneous
Count admin pageviews. Specify if the Tiki statistics will include page views from users with Admin permission.
Temporary directory A directory on your web server to use for temporary files.

Note: You must have write- access to this directory. It is also where your session files if saved on disk will go. If you do not want interference with other application than redefines the session lifetime, it is better to define a directory specific to tikiwiki.
Help System Use to enable the TikiWiki online help system. Use the Help URL to specify the root URL for your Tiki's online help. To use the default Tiki help on this site, use: http://doc.tikiwiki.org/tiki-index.php?page=
Show user's real name instead of login
Highlight group
Show user's contribution on the user information page
Display UserTracker information on the user information page:
Separators
Locations The icon used in the breadcrumbs when displaying the category or structure path.
Choices Choices separator: | The character used to separate choices whenever they appear.








Contributors to this page: Rick22958 points  , V. Whittier762 points  and system .
Page last modified on Thursday 23 June, 2011 02:52:43 UTC by Rick22958 points .
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