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authorZach Copley <zach@status.net>2010-03-04 11:18:30 -0800
committerZach Copley <zach@status.net>2010-03-04 11:18:30 -0800
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parente6f379f8a3e125c1f5057ff4564278007c2bdaba (diff)
Make indenting consistent in README
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@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ Identi.ca <http://identi.ca/>. It is shared with you in hope that you
too make an Open Software Service available to your users. To learn
more, please see the Open Software Service Definition 1.1:
- http://www.opendefinition.org/ossd
+ http://www.opendefinition.org/ossd
StatusNet, Inc. <http://status.net/> also offers this software as a
Web service, requiring no installation on your part. The software run
@@ -254,11 +254,11 @@ especially if you've previously installed PHP/MySQL packages.
3. Make your target directory writeable by the Web server.
- chmod a+w /var/www/statusnet/
+ chmod a+w /var/www/statusnet/
On some systems, this will probably work:
- chgrp www-data /var/www/statusnet/
+ chgrp www-data /var/www/statusnet/
chmod g+w /var/www/statusnet/
If your Web server runs as another user besides "www-data", try
@@ -269,9 +269,9 @@ especially if you've previously installed PHP/MySQL packages.
file subdirectories writeable by the Web server. An insecure way to do
this is:
- chmod a+w /var/www/statusnet/avatar
- chmod a+w /var/www/statusnet/background
- chmod a+w /var/www/statusnet/file
+ chmod a+w /var/www/statusnet/avatar
+ chmod a+w /var/www/statusnet/background
+ chmod a+w /var/www/statusnet/file
You can also make the avatar, background, and file directories
writeable by the Web server group, as noted above.
@@ -279,7 +279,7 @@ especially if you've previously installed PHP/MySQL packages.
5. Create a database to hold your microblog data. Something like this
should work:
- mysqladmin -u "username" --password="password" create statusnet
+ mysqladmin -u "username" --password="password" create statusnet
Note that StatusNet must have its own database; you can't share the
database with another program. You can name it whatever you want,
@@ -293,9 +293,9 @@ especially if you've previously installed PHP/MySQL packages.
database. If you have shell access, this will probably work from the
MySQL shell:
- GRANT ALL on statusnet.*
- TO 'statusnetuser'@'localhost'
- IDENTIFIED BY 'statusnetpassword';
+ GRANT ALL on statusnet.*
+ TO 'statusnetuser'@'localhost'
+ IDENTIFIED BY 'statusnetpassword';
You should change 'statusnetuser' and 'statusnetpassword' to your preferred new
username and password. You may want to test logging in to MySQL as
@@ -303,7 +303,7 @@ especially if you've previously installed PHP/MySQL packages.
7. In a browser, navigate to the StatusNet install script; something like:
- http://yourserver.example.com/statusnet/install.php
+ http://yourserver.example.com/statusnet/install.php
Enter the database connection information and your site name. The
install program will configure your site and install the initial,
@@ -357,7 +357,7 @@ your server.
You should now be able to navigate to a "fancy" URL on your server,
like:
- http://example.net/statusnet/main/register
+ http://example.net/statusnet/main/register
If you changed your HTTP server configuration, you may need to restart
the server first.
@@ -368,11 +368,11 @@ directory is 'All' in your Apache configuration file. This is usually
/etc/apache2/sites-available/default. See the Apache documentation for
.htaccess files for more details:
- http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/howto/htaccess.html
+ http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/howto/htaccess.html
Also, check that mod_rewrite is installed and enabled:
- http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_rewrite.html
+ http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_rewrite.html
Sphinx
------
@@ -380,8 +380,8 @@ Sphinx
To use a Sphinx server to search users and notices, you'll need to
enable the SphinxSearch plugin. Add to your config.php:
- addPlugin('SphinxSearch');
- $config['sphinx']['server'] = 'searchhost.local';
+ addPlugin('SphinxSearch');
+ $config['sphinx']['server'] = 'searchhost.local';
You also need to install, compile and enable the sphinx pecl extension for
php on the client side, which itself depends on the sphinx development files.
@@ -416,26 +416,26 @@ For this to work, there *must* be a domain or sub-domain for which all
2. Make sure the maildaemon.php file is executable:
- chmod +x scripts/maildaemon.php
+ chmod +x scripts/maildaemon.php
Note that "daemon" is kind of a misnomer here; the script is more
of a filter than a daemon.
2. Edit /etc/aliases on your mail server and add the following line:
- *: /path/to/statusnet/scripts/maildaemon.php
+ *: /path/to/statusnet/scripts/maildaemon.php
3. Run whatever code you need to to update your aliases database. For
many mail servers (Postfix, Exim, Sendmail), this should work:
- newaliases
+ newaliases
You may need to restart your mail server for the new database to
take effect.
4. Set the following in your config.php file:
- $config['mail']['domain'] = 'yourdomain.example.net';
+ $config['mail']['domain'] = 'yourdomain.example.net';
At this point, post-by-email and post-by-SMS-gateway should work. Note
that if your mail server is on a different computer from your email
@@ -489,7 +489,7 @@ search, indexing, bridging, or other cool services.
To configure a downstream site to receive your public stream, add
their "JID" (Jabber ID) to your config.php as follows:
- $config['xmpp']['public'][] = 'downstream@example.net';
+ $config['xmpp']['public'][] = 'downstream@example.net';
(Don't miss those square brackets at the end.) Note that your XMPP
broadcasting must be configured as mentioned above. Although you can
@@ -518,7 +518,7 @@ server is probably a good idea for high-volume sites.
3. In your config.php files (both the Web server and the queues
server!), set the following variable:
- $config['queue']['enabled'] = true;
+ $config['queue']['enabled'] = true;
You may also want to look at the 'daemon' section of this file for
more daemon options. Note that if you set the 'user' and/or 'group'
@@ -577,15 +577,15 @@ following files:
display.css: a CSS2 file for "default" styling for all browsers.
ie6.css: a CSS2 file for override styling for fixing up Internet
- Explorer 6.
+ Explorer 6.
ie7.css: a CSS2 file for override styling for fixing up Internet
- Explorer 7.
+ Explorer 7.
logo.png: a logo image for the site.
default-avatar-profile.png: a 96x96 pixel image to use as the avatar for
- users who don't upload their own.
+ users who don't upload their own.
default-avatar-stream.png: Ditto, but 48x48. For streams of notices.
default-avatar-mini.png: Ditto ditto, but 24x24. For subscriptions
- listing on profile pages.
+ listing on profile pages.
You may want to start by copying the files from the default theme to
your own directory.
@@ -634,17 +634,17 @@ Access to file attachments can also be restricted to logged-in users only.
1. Add a directory outside the web root where your file uploads will be
stored. Usually a command like this will work:
- mkdir /var/www/statusnet-files
+ mkdir /var/www/statusnet-files
2. Make the file uploads directory writeable by the web server. An
insecure way to do this is:
- chmod a+x /var/www/statusnet-files
+ chmod a+x /var/www/statusnet-files
3. Tell StatusNet to use this directory for file uploads. Add a line
like this to your config.php:
- $config['attachments']['dir'] = '/var/www/statusnet-files';
+ $config['attachments']['dir'] = '/var/www/statusnet-files';
Upgrading
=========
@@ -696,12 +696,12 @@ instructions; read to the end first before trying them.
If your database is at version 0.8.0 or above, you can run a
special upgrade script:
- mysql -u<rootuser> -p<rootpassword> <database> db/08to09.sql
+ mysql -u<rootuser> -p<rootpassword> <database> db/08to09.sql
Otherwise, go to your StatusNet directory and AFTER YOU MAKE A
BACKUP run the rebuilddb.sh script like this:
- ./scripts/rebuilddb.sh rootuser rootpassword database db/statusnet.sql
+ ./scripts/rebuilddb.sh rootuser rootpassword database db/statusnet.sql
Here, rootuser and rootpassword are the username and password for a
user who can drop and create databases as well as tables; typically
@@ -785,7 +785,7 @@ Almost all configuration options are made through a two-dimensional
associative array, cleverly named $config. A typical configuration
line will be:
- $config['section']['option'] = value;
+ $config['section']['option'] = value;
For brevity, the following documentation describes each section and
option.
@@ -798,78 +798,78 @@ This section is a catch-all for site-wide variables.
name: the name of your site, like 'YourCompany Microblog'.
server: the server part of your site's URLs, like 'example.net'.
path: The path part of your site's URLs, like 'statusnet' or ''
- (installed in root).
+ (installed in root).
fancy: whether or not your site uses fancy URLs (see Fancy URLs
- section above). Default is false.
+ section above). Default is false.
logfile: full path to a file for StatusNet to save logging
- information to. You may want to use this if you don't have
- access to syslog.
+ information to. You may want to use this if you don't have
+ access to syslog.
logdebug: whether to log additional debug info like backtraces on
- hard errors. Default false.
+ hard errors. Default false.
locale_path: full path to the directory for locale data. Unless you
- store all your locale data in one place, you probably
- don't need to use this.
+ store all your locale data in one place, you probably
+ don't need to use this.
language: default language for your site. Defaults to US English.
- Note that this is overridden if a user is logged in and has
- selected a different language. It is also overridden if the
- user is NOT logged in, but their browser requests a different
- langauge. Since pretty much everybody's browser requests a
- language, that means that changing this setting has little or
- no effect in practice.
+ Note that this is overridden if a user is logged in and has
+ selected a different language. It is also overridden if the
+ user is NOT logged in, but their browser requests a different
+ langauge. Since pretty much everybody's browser requests a
+ language, that means that changing this setting has little or
+ no effect in practice.
languages: A list of languages supported on your site. Typically you'd
- only change this if you wanted to disable support for one
- or another language:
- "unset($config['site']['languages']['de'])" will disable
- support for German.
+ only change this if you wanted to disable support for one
+ or another language:
+ "unset($config['site']['languages']['de'])" will disable
+ support for German.
theme: Theme for your site (see Theme section). Two themes are
- provided by default: 'default' and 'stoica' (the one used by
- Identi.ca). It's appreciated if you don't use the 'stoica' theme
- except as the basis for your own.
+ provided by default: 'default' and 'stoica' (the one used by
+ Identi.ca). It's appreciated if you don't use the 'stoica' theme
+ except as the basis for your own.
email: contact email address for your site. By default, it's extracted
- from your Web server environment; you may want to customize it.
+ from your Web server environment; you may want to customize it.
broughtbyurl: name of an organization or individual who provides the
- service. Each page will include a link to this name in the
- footer. A good way to link to the blog, forum, wiki,
- corporate portal, or whoever is making the service available.
+ service. Each page will include a link to this name in the
+ footer. A good way to link to the blog, forum, wiki,
+ corporate portal, or whoever is making the service available.
broughtby: text used for the "brought by" link.
timezone: default timezone for message display. Users can set their
- own time zone. Defaults to 'UTC', which is a pretty good default.
+ own time zone. Defaults to 'UTC', which is a pretty good default.
closed: If set to 'true', will disallow registration on your site.
This is a cheap way to restrict accounts to only one
individual or group; just register the accounts you want on
the service, *then* set this variable to 'true'.
inviteonly: If set to 'true', will only allow registration if the user
- was invited by an existing user.
+ was invited by an existing user.
private: If set to 'true', anonymous users will be redirected to the
- 'login' page. Also, API methods that normally require no
- authentication will require it. Note that this does not turn
- off registration; use 'closed' or 'inviteonly' for the
- behaviour you want.
+ 'login' page. Also, API methods that normally require no
+ authentication will require it. Note that this does not turn
+ off registration; use 'closed' or 'inviteonly' for the
+ behaviour you want.
notice: A plain string that will appear on every page. A good place
to put introductory information about your service, or info about
upgrades and outages, or other community info. Any HTML will
- be escaped.
+ be escaped.
logo: URL of an image file to use as the logo for the site. Overrides
- the logo in the theme, if any.
+ the logo in the theme, if any.
ssl: Whether to use SSL and https:// URLs for some or all pages.
- Possible values are 'always' (use it for all pages), 'never'
- (don't use it for any pages), or 'sometimes' (use it for
- sensitive pages that include passwords like login and registration,
- but not for regular pages). Default to 'never'.
+ Possible values are 'always' (use it for all pages), 'never'
+ (don't use it for any pages), or 'sometimes' (use it for
+ sensitive pages that include passwords like login and registration,
+ but not for regular pages). Default to 'never'.
sslserver: use an alternate server name for SSL URLs, like
- 'secure.example.org'. You should be careful to set cookie
- parameters correctly so that both the SSL server and the
- "normal" server can access the session cookie and
- preferably other cookies as well.
+ 'secure.example.org'. You should be careful to set cookie
+ parameters correctly so that both the SSL server and the
+ "normal" server can access the session cookie and
+ preferably other cookies as well.
shorturllength: Length of URL at which URLs in a message exceeding 140
- characters will be sent to the user's chosen
- shortening service.
+ characters will be sent to the user's chosen
+ shortening service.
dupelimit: minimum time allowed for one person to say the same thing
- twice. Default 60s. Anything lower is considered a user
- or UI error.
+ twice. Default 60s. Anything lower is considered a user
+ or UI error.
textlimit: default max size for texts in the site. Defaults to 140.
- 0 means no limit. Can be fine-tuned for notices, messages,
- profile bios and group descriptions.
+ 0 means no limit. Can be fine-tuned for notices, messages,
+ profile bios and group descriptions.
db
--
@@ -879,24 +879,24 @@ DB_DataObject (see <http://ur1.ca/7xp>). The ones that you may want to
set are listed below for clarity.
database: a DSN (Data Source Name) for your StatusNet database. This is
- in the format 'protocol://username:password@hostname/databasename',
- where 'protocol' is 'mysql' or 'mysqli' (or possibly 'postgresql', if you
- really know what you're doing), 'username' is the username,
- 'password' is the password, and etc.
+ in the format 'protocol://username:password@hostname/databasename',
+ where 'protocol' is 'mysql' or 'mysqli' (or possibly 'postgresql', if you
+ really know what you're doing), 'username' is the username,
+ 'password' is the password, and etc.
ini_yourdbname: if your database is not named 'statusnet', you'll need
- to set this to point to the location of the
- statusnet.ini file. Note that the real name of your database
- should go in there, not literally 'yourdbname'.
+ to set this to point to the location of the
+ statusnet.ini file. Note that the real name of your database
+ should go in there, not literally 'yourdbname'.
db_driver: You can try changing this to 'MDB2' to use the other driver
- type for DB_DataObject, but note that it breaks the OpenID
- libraries, which only support PEAR::DB.
+ type for DB_DataObject, but note that it breaks the OpenID
+ libraries, which only support PEAR::DB.
debug: On a database error, you may get a message saying to set this
- value to 5 to see debug messages in the browser. This breaks
- just about all pages, and will also expose the username and
- password
+ value to 5 to see debug messages in the browser. This breaks
+ just about all pages, and will also expose the username and
+ password
quote_identifiers: Set this to true if you're using postgresql.
type: either 'mysql' or 'postgresql' (used for some bits of
- database-type-specific SQL in the code). Defaults to mysql.
+ database-type-specific SQL in the code). Defaults to mysql.
mirror: you can set this to an array of DSNs, like the above
'database' value. If it's set, certain read-only actions will
use a random value out of this array for the database, rather
@@ -906,17 +906,17 @@ mirror: you can set this to an array of DSNs, like the above
requests to go to the 'database' (master) server, you'll need
to include it in this array, too.
utf8: whether to talk to the database in UTF-8 mode. This is the default
- with new installations, but older sites may want to turn it off
- until they get their databases fixed up. See "UTF-8 database"
- above for details.
+ with new installations, but older sites may want to turn it off
+ until they get their databases fixed up. See "UTF-8 database"
+ above for details.
schemacheck: when to let plugins check the database schema to add
- tables or update them. Values can be 'runtime' (default)
- or 'script'. 'runtime' can be costly (plugins check the
- schema on every hit, adding potentially several db
- queries, some quite long), but not everyone knows how to
- run a script. If you can, set this to 'script' and run
- scripts/checkschema.php whenever you install or upgrade a
- plugin.
+ tables or update them. Values can be 'runtime' (default)
+ or 'script'. 'runtime' can be costly (plugins check the
+ schema on every hit, adding potentially several db
+ queries, some quite long), but not everyone knows how to
+ run a script. If you can, set this to 'script' and run
+ scripts/checkschema.php whenever you install or upgrade a
+ plugin.
syslog
------
@@ -925,13 +925,13 @@ By default, StatusNet sites log error messages to the syslog facility.
(You can override this using the 'logfile' parameter described above).
appname: The name that StatusNet uses to log messages. By default it's
- "statusnet", but if you have more than one installation on the
- server, you may want to change the name for each instance so
- you can track log messages more easily.
+ "statusnet", but if you have more than one installation on the
+ server, you may want to change the name for each instance so
+ you can track log messages more easily.
priority: level to log at. Currently ignored.
facility: what syslog facility to used. Defaults to LOG_USER, only
- reset if you know what syslog is and have a good reason
- to change it.
+ reset if you know what syslog is and have a good reason
+ to change it.
queue
-----
@@ -942,51 +942,51 @@ sending out SMS email or XMPP messages, for off-line processing. See
enabled: Whether to uses queues. Defaults to false.
subsystem: Which kind of queueserver to use. Values include "db" for
- our hacked-together database queuing (no other server
- required) and "stomp" for a stomp server.
+ our hacked-together database queuing (no other server
+ required) and "stomp" for a stomp server.
stomp_server: "broker URI" for stomp server. Something like
- "tcp://hostname:61613". More complicated ones are
- possible; see your stomp server's documentation for
- details.
+ "tcp://hostname:61613". More complicated ones are
+ possible; see your stomp server's documentation for
+ details.
queue_basename: a root name to use for queues (stomp only). Typically
- something like '/queue/sitename/' makes sense. If running
- multiple instances on the same server, make sure that
- either this setting or $config['site']['nickname'] are
- unique for each site to keep them separate.
+ something like '/queue/sitename/' makes sense. If running
+ multiple instances on the same server, make sure that
+ either this setting or $config['site']['nickname'] are
+ unique for each site to keep them separate.
stomp_username: username for connecting to the stomp server; defaults
- to null.
+ to null.
stomp_password: password for connecting to the stomp server; defaults
- to null.
+ to null.
stomp_persistent: keep items across queue server restart, if enabled.
softlimit: an absolute or relative "soft memory limit"; daemons will
- restart themselves gracefully when they find they've hit
- this amount of memory usage. Defaults to 90% of PHP's global
- memory_limit setting.
+ restart themselves gracefully when they find they've hit
+ this amount of memory usage. Defaults to 90% of PHP's global
+ memory_limit setting.
inboxes: delivery of messages to receiver's inboxes can be delayed to
- queue time for best interactive performance on the sender.
- This may however be annoyingly slow when using the DB queues,
- so you can set this to false if it's causing trouble.
+ queue time for best interactive performance on the sender.
+ This may however be annoyingly slow when using the DB queues,
+ so you can set this to false if it's causing trouble.
breakout: for stomp, individual queues are by default grouped up for
- best scalability. If some need to be run by separate daemons,
- etc they can be manually adjusted here.
+ best scalability. If some need to be run by separate daemons,
+ etc they can be manually adjusted here.
- Default will share all queues for all sites within each group.
- Specify as <group>/<queue> or <group>/<queue>/<site>,
- using nickname identifier as site.
+ Default will share all queues for all sites within each group.
+ Specify as <group>/<queue> or <group>/<queue>/<site>,
+ using nickname identifier as site.
- 'main/distrib' separate "distrib" queue covering all sites
- 'xmpp/xmppout/mysite' separate "xmppout" queue covering just 'mysite'
+ 'main/distrib' separate "distrib" queue covering all sites
+ 'xmpp/xmppout/mysite' separate "xmppout" queue covering just 'mysite'
max_retries: for stomp, drop messages after N failed attempts to process.
- Defaults to 10.
+ Defaults to 10.
dead_letter_dir: for stomp, optional directory to dump data on failed
- queue processing events after discarding them.
+ queue processing events after discarding them.
license
-------
@@ -997,11 +997,11 @@ choice for any public site. Note that some other servers will not
accept notices if you apply a stricter license than this.
type: one of 'cc' (for Creative Commons licenses), 'allrightsreserved'
- (default copyright), or 'private' (for private and confidential
- information).
+ (default copyright), or 'private' (for private and confidential
+ information).
owner: for 'allrightsreserved' or 'private', an assigned copyright
- holder (for example, an employer for a private site). If
- not specified, will be attributed to 'contributors'.
+ holder (for example, an employer for a private site). If
+ not specified, will be attributed to 'contributors'.
url: URL of the license, used for links.
title: Title for the license, like 'Creative Commons Attribution 3.0'.
image: A button shown on each page for the license.
@@ -1013,7 +1013,7 @@ This is for configuring out-going email. We use PEAR's Mail module,
see: http://pear.php.net/manual/en/package.mail.mail.factory.php
backend: the backend to use for mail, one of 'mail', 'sendmail', and
- 'smtp'. Defaults to PEAR's default, 'mail'.
+ 'smtp'. Defaults to PEAR's default, 'mail'.
params: if the mail backend requires any parameters, you can provide
them in an associative array.
@@ -1023,24 +1023,24 @@ nickname
This is for configuring nicknames in the service.
blacklist: an array of strings for usernames that may not be
- registered. A default array exists for strings that are
- used by StatusNet (e.g. 'doc', 'main', 'avatar', 'theme')
- but you may want to add others if you have other software
- installed in a subdirectory of StatusNet or if you just
- don't want certain words used as usernames.
+ registered. A default array exists for strings that are
+ used by StatusNet (e.g. 'doc', 'main', 'avatar', 'theme')
+ but you may want to add others if you have other software
+ installed in a subdirectory of StatusNet or if you just
+ don't want certain words used as usernames.
featured: an array of nicknames of 'featured' users of the site.
- Can be useful to draw attention to well-known users, or
- interesting people, or whatever.
+ Can be useful to draw attention to well-known users, or
+ interesting people, or whatever.
avatar
------
For configuring avatar access.
-dir: Directory to look for avatar files and to put them into.
+dir: Directory to look for avatar files and to put them into.
Defaults to avatar subdirectory of install directory; if
you change it, make sure to change path, too.
-path: Path to avatars. Defaults to path for avatar subdirectory,
+path: Path to avatars. Defaults to path for avatar subdirectory,
but you can change it if you wish. Note that this will
be included with the avatar server, too.
server: If set, defines another server where avatars are stored in the
@@ -1051,8 +1051,8 @@ server: If set, defines another server where avatars are stored in the
typically only make 2 connections to a single server at a
time <http://ur1.ca/6ih>, so this can parallelize the job.
Defaults to null.
-ssl: Whether to access avatars using HTTPS. Defaults to null, meaning
- to guess based on site-wide SSL settings.
+ssl: Whether to access avatars using HTTPS. Defaults to null, meaning
+ to guess based on site-wide SSL settings.
public
------
@@ -1060,13 +1060,13 @@ public
For configuring the public stream.
localonly: If set to true, only messages posted by users of this
- service (rather than other services, filtered through OMB)
- are shown in the public stream. Default true.
+ service (rather than other services, filtered through OMB)
+ are shown in the public stream. Default true.
blacklist: An array of IDs of users to hide from the public stream.
- Useful if you have someone making excessive Twitterfeed posts
- to the site, other kinds of automated posts, testing bots, etc.
+ Useful if you have someone making excessive Twitterfeed posts
+ to the site, other kinds of automated posts, testing bots, etc.
autosource: Sources of notices that are from automatic posters, and thus
- should be kept off the public timeline. Default empty.
+ should be kept off the public timeline. Default empty.
theme
-----
@@ -1074,15 +1074,15 @@ theme
server: Like avatars, you can speed up page loading by pointing the
theme file lookup to another server (virtual or real).
Defaults to NULL, meaning to use the site server.
-dir: Directory where theme files are stored. Used to determine
+dir: Directory where theme files are stored. Used to determine
whether to show parts of a theme file. Defaults to the theme
subdirectory of the install directory.
-path: Path part of theme URLs, before the theme name. Relative to the
+path: Path part of theme URLs, before the theme name. Relative to the
theme server. It may make sense to change this path when upgrading,
(using version numbers as the path) to make sure that all files are
reloaded by caching clients or proxies. Defaults to null,
which means to use the site path + '/theme'.
-ssl: Whether to use SSL for theme elements. Default is null, which means
+ssl: Whether to use SSL for theme elements. Default is null, which means
guess based on site SSL settings.
javascript
@@ -1091,9 +1091,9 @@ javascript
server: You can speed up page loading by pointing the
theme file lookup to another server (virtual or real).
Defaults to NULL, meaning to use the site server.
-path: Path part of Javascript URLs. Defaults to null,
+path: Path part of Javascript URLs. Defaults to null,
which means to use the site path + '/js/'.
-ssl: Whether to use SSL for JavaScript files. Default is null, which means
+ssl: Whether to use SSL for JavaScript files. Default is null, which means
guess based on site SSL settings.
xmpp
@@ -1104,25 +1104,25 @@ For configuring the XMPP sub-system.
enabled: Whether to accept and send messages by XMPP. Default false.
server: server part of XMPP ID for update user.
port: connection port for clients. Default 5222, which you probably
- shouldn't need to change.
+ shouldn't need to change.
user: username for the client connection. Users will receive messages
- from 'user'@'server'.
+ from 'user'@'server'.
resource: a unique identifier for the connection to the server. This
- is actually used as a prefix for each XMPP component in the system.
+ is actually used as a prefix for each XMPP component in the system.
password: password for the user account.
host: some XMPP domains are served by machines with a different
- hostname. (For example, @gmail.com GTalk users connect to
- talk.google.com). Set this to the correct hostname if that's the
- case with your server.
+ hostname. (For example, @gmail.com GTalk users connect to
+ talk.google.com). Set this to the correct hostname if that's the
+ case with your server.
encryption: Whether to encrypt the connection between StatusNet and the
- XMPP server. Defaults to true, but you can get
- considerably better performance turning it off if you're
- connecting to a server on the same machine or on a
- protected network.
+ XMPP server. Defaults to true, but you can get
+ considerably better performance turning it off if you're
+ connecting to a server on the same machine or on a
+ protected network.
debug: if turned on, this will make the XMPP library blurt out all of
- the incoming and outgoing messages as XML stanzas. Use as a
- last resort, and never turn it on if you don't have queues
- enabled, since it will spit out sensitive data to the browser.
+ the incoming and outgoing messages as XML stanzas. Use as a
+ last resort, and never turn it on if you don't have queues
+ enabled, since it will spit out sensitive data to the browser.
public: an array of JIDs to send _all_ notices to. This is useful for
participating in third-party search and archiving services.
@@ -1139,8 +1139,8 @@ tag
Miscellaneous tagging stuff.
dropoff: Decay factor for tag listing, in seconds.
- Defaults to exponential decay over ten days; you can twiddle
- with it to try and get better results for your site.
+ Defaults to exponential decay over ten days; you can twiddle
+ with it to try and get better results for your site.
popular
-------
@@ -1148,8 +1148,8 @@ popular
Settings for the "popular" section of the site.
dropoff: Decay factor for popularity listing, in seconds.
- Defaults to exponential decay over ten days; you can twiddle
- with it to try and get better results for your site.
+ Defaults to exponential decay over ten days; you can twiddle
+ with it to try and get better results for your site.
daemon
------
@@ -1160,11 +1160,11 @@ piddir: directory that daemon processes should write their PID file
(process ID) to. Defaults to /var/run/, which is where this
stuff should usually go on Unix-ish systems.
user: If set, the daemons will try to change their effective user ID
- to this user before running. Probably a good idea, especially if
- you start the daemons as root. Note: user name, like 'daemon',
- not 1001.
+ to this user before running. Probably a good idea, especially if
+ you start the daemons as root. Note: user name, like 'daemon',
+ not 1001.
group: If set, the daemons will try to change their effective group ID
- to this named group. Again, a name, not a numerical ID.
+ to this named group. Again, a name, not a numerical ID.
memcached
---------
@@ -1176,11 +1176,11 @@ enabled: Set to true to enable. Default false.
server: a string with the hostname of the memcached server. Can also
be an array of hostnames, if you've got more than one server.
base: memcached uses key-value pairs to store data. We build long,
- funny-looking keys to make sure we don't have any conflicts. The
- base of the key is usually a simplified version of the site name
- (like "Identi.ca" => "identica"), but you can overwrite this if
- you need to. You can safely ignore it if you only have one
- StatusNet site using your memcached server.
+ funny-looking keys to make sure we don't have any conflicts. The
+ base of the key is usually a simplified version of the site name
+ (like "Identi.ca" => "identica"), but you can overwrite this if
+ you need to. You can safely ignore it if you only have one
+ StatusNet site using your memcached server.
port: Port to connect to; defaults to 11211.
emailpost
@@ -1189,7 +1189,7 @@ emailpost
For post-by-email.
enabled: Whether to enable post-by-email. Defaults to true. You will
- also need to set up maildaemon.php.
+ also need to set up maildaemon.php.
sms
---
@@ -1197,7 +1197,7 @@ sms
For SMS integration.
enabled: Whether to enable SMS integration. Defaults to true. Queues
- should also be enabled.
+ should also be enabled.
integration
-----------
@@ -1212,7 +1212,7 @@ inboxes
For notice inboxes.
enabled: No longer used. If you set this to something other than true,
- StatusNet will no longer run.
+ StatusNet will no longer run.
throttle
--------
@@ -1221,8 +1221,8 @@ For notice-posting throttles.
enabled: Whether to throttle posting. Defaults to false.
count: Each user can make this many posts in 'timespan' seconds. So, if count
- is 100 and timespan is 3600, then there can be only 100 posts
- from a user every hour.
+ is 100 and timespan is 3600, then there can be only 100 posts
+ from a user every hour.
timespan: see 'count'.
profile
@@ -1231,7 +1231,7 @@ profile
Profile management.
biolimit: max character length of bio; 0 means no limit; null means to use
- the site text limit default.
+ the site text limit default.
newuser
-------
@@ -1239,13 +1239,13 @@ newuser
Options with new users.
default: nickname of a user account to automatically subscribe new
- users to. Typically this would be system account for e.g.
- service updates or announcements. Users are able to unsub
- if they want. Default is null; no auto subscribe.
+ users to. Typically this would be system account for e.g.
+ service updates or announcements. Users are able to unsub
+ if they want. Default is null; no auto subscribe.
welcome: nickname of a user account that sends welcome messages to new
- users. Can be the same as 'default' account, although on
- busy servers it may be a good idea to keep that one just for
- 'urgent' messages. Default is null; no message.
+ users. Can be the same as 'default' account, although on
+ busy servers it may be a good idea to keep that one just for
+ 'urgent' messages. Default is null; no message.
If either of these special user accounts are specified, the users should
be created before the configuration is updated.
@@ -1262,19 +1262,19 @@ helps StatusNet developers take your needs into account when updating
the software.
run: string indicating when to run the statistics. Values can be 'web'
- (run occasionally at Web time), 'cron' (run from a cron script),
- or 'never' (don't ever run). If you set it to 'cron', remember to
- schedule the script to run on a regular basis.
+ (run occasionally at Web time), 'cron' (run from a cron script),
+ or 'never' (don't ever run). If you set it to 'cron', remember to
+ schedule the script to run on a regular basis.
frequency: if run value is 'web', how often to report statistics.
- Measured in Web hits; depends on how active your site is.
- Default is 10000 -- that is, one report every 10000 Web hits,
- on average.
+ Measured in Web hits; depends on how active your site is.
+ Default is 10000 -- that is, one report every 10000 Web hits,
+ on average.
reporturl: URL to post statistics to. Defaults to StatusNet developers'
- report system, but if they go evil or disappear you may
- need to update this to another value. Note: if you
- don't want to report stats, it's much better to
- set 'run' to 'never' than to set this value to something
- nonsensical.
+ report system, but if they go evil or disappear you may
+ need to update this to another value. Note: if you
+ don't want to report stats, it's much better to
+ set 'run' to 'never' than to set this value to something
+ nonsensical.
attachments
-----------
@@ -1287,14 +1287,14 @@ We suggest the use of the pecl file_info extension to handle mime type
detection.
supported: an array of mime types you accept to store and distribute,
- like 'image/gif', 'video/mpeg', 'audio/mpeg', etc. Make sure you
- setup your server to properly recognize the types you want to
- support.
-uploads: false to disable uploading files with notices (true by default).
+ like 'image/gif', 'video/mpeg', 'audio/mpeg', etc. Make sure you
+ setup your server to properly recognize the types you want to
+ support.
+uploads: false to disable uploading files with notices (true by default).
filecommand: The required MIME_Type library may need to use the 'file'
- command. It tries the one in the Web server's path, but if
- you're having problems with uploads, try setting this to the
- correct value. Note: 'file' must accept '-b' and '-i' options.
+ command. It tries the one in the Web server's path, but if
+ you're having problems with uploads, try setting this to the
+ correct value. Note: 'file' must accept '-b' and '-i' options.
For quotas, be sure you've set the upload_max_filesize and post_max_size
in php.ini to be large enough to handle your upload. In httpd.conf
@@ -1302,26 +1302,26 @@ in php.ini to be large enough to handle your upload. In httpd.conf
set too low (it's optional, so it may not be there at all).
file_quota: maximum size for a single file upload in bytes. A user can send
- any amount of notices with attachments as long as each attachment
- is smaller than file_quota.
+ any amount of notices with attachments as long as each attachment
+ is smaller than file_quota.
user_quota: total size in bytes a user can store on this server. Each user
- can store any number of files as long as their total size does
- not exceed the user_quota.
+ can store any number of files as long as their total size does
+ not exceed the user_quota.
monthly_quota: total size permitted in the current month. This is the total
- size in bytes that a user can upload each month.
+ size in bytes that a user can upload each month.
dir: directory accessible to the Web process where uploads should go.
- Defaults to the 'file' subdirectory of the install directory, which
- should be writeable by the Web user.
+ Defaults to the 'file' subdirectory of the install directory, which
+ should be writeable by the Web user.
server: server name to use when creating URLs for uploaded files.
- Defaults to null, meaning to use the default Web server. Using
- a virtual server here can speed up Web performance.
+ Defaults to null, meaning to use the default Web server. Using
+ a virtual server here can speed up Web performance.
path: URL path, relative to the server, to find files. Defaults to
- main path + '/file/'.
+ main path + '/file/'.
ssl: whether to use HTTPS for file URLs. Defaults to null, meaning to
- guess based on other SSL settings.
+ guess based on other SSL settings.
filecommand: command to use for determining the type of a file. May be
- skipped if fileinfo extension is installed. Defaults to
- '/usr/bin/file'.
+ skipped if fileinfo extension is installed. Defaults to
+ '/usr/bin/file'.
group
-----
@@ -1329,10 +1329,10 @@ group
Options for group functionality.
maxaliases: maximum number of aliases a group can have. Default 3. Set
- to 0 or less to prevent aliases in a group.
+ to 0 or less to prevent aliases in a group.
desclimit: maximum number of characters to allow in group descriptions.
- null (default) means to use the site-wide text limits. 0
- means no limit.
+ null (default) means to use the site-wide text limits. 0
+ means no limit.
oohembed
--------
@@ -1347,11 +1347,11 @@ search
Some stuff for search.
type: type of search. Ignored if PostgreSQL or Sphinx are enabled. Can either
- be 'fulltext' (default) or 'like'. The former is faster and more efficient
- but requires the lame old MyISAM engine for MySQL. The latter
- will work with InnoDB but could be miserably slow on large
- systems. We'll probably add another type sometime in the future,
- with our own indexing system (maybe like MediaWiki's).
+ be 'fulltext' (default) or 'like'. The former is faster and more efficient
+ but requires the lame old MyISAM engine for MySQL. The latter
+ will work with InnoDB but could be miserably slow on large
+ systems. We'll probably add another type sometime in the future,
+ with our own indexing system (maybe like MediaWiki's).
sessions
--------
@@ -1363,7 +1363,7 @@ handle: boolean. Whether we should register our own PHP session-handling
Setting this to true makes some sense on large or multi-server
sites, but it probably won't hurt for smaller ones, either.
debug: whether to output debugging info for session storage. Can help
- with weird session bugs, sometimes. Default false.
+ with weird session bugs, sometimes. Default false.
background
----------
@@ -1372,14 +1372,14 @@ Users can upload backgrounds for their pages; this section defines
their use.
server: the server to use for background. Using a separate (even
- virtual) server for this can speed up load times. Default is
- null; same as site server.
+ virtual) server for this can speed up load times. Default is
+ null; same as site server.
dir: directory to write backgrounds too. Default is '/background/'
- subdir of install dir.
+ subdir of install dir.
path: path to backgrounds. Default is sub-path of install path; note
- that you may need to change this if you change site-path too.
+ that you may need to change this if you change site-path too.
ssl: Whether or not to use HTTPS for background files. Defaults to
- null, meaning to guess from site-wide SSL settings.
+ null, meaning to guess from site-wide SSL settings.
ping
----
@@ -1388,7 +1388,7 @@ Using the "XML-RPC Ping" method initiated by weblogs.com, the site can
notify third-party servers of updates.
notify: an array of URLs for ping endpoints. Default is the empty
- array (no notification).
+ array (no notification).
design
------
@@ -1410,8 +1410,8 @@ notice
Configuration options specific to notices.
contentlimit: max length of the plain-text content of a notice.
- Default is null, meaning to use the site-wide text limit.
- 0 means no limit.
+ Default is null, meaning to use the site-wide text limit.
+ 0 means no limit.
message
-------
@@ -1419,8 +1419,8 @@ message
Configuration options specific to messages.
contentlimit: max length of the plain-text content of a message.
- Default is null, meaning to use the site-wide text limit.
- 0 means no limit.
+ Default is null, meaning to use the site-wide text limit.
+ 0 means no limit.
logincommand
------------
@@ -1428,14 +1428,14 @@ logincommand
Configuration options for the login command.
disabled: whether to enable this command. If enabled, users who send
- the text 'login' to the site through any channel will
- receive a link to login to the site automatically in return.
- Possibly useful for users who primarily use an XMPP or SMS
- interface and can't be bothered to remember their site
- password. Note that the security implications of this are
- pretty serious and have not been thoroughly tested. You
- should enable it only after you've convinced yourself that
- it is safe. Default is 'false'.
+ the text 'login' to the site through any channel will
+ receive a link to login to the site automatically in return.
+ Possibly useful for users who primarily use an XMPP or SMS
+ interface and can't be bothered to remember their site
+ password. Note that the security implications of this are
+ pretty serious and have not been thoroughly tested. You
+ should enable it only after you've convinced yourself that
+ it is safe. Default is 'false'.
singleuser
----------
@@ -1454,11 +1454,11 @@ Web crawlers. See http://www.robotstxt.org/ for more information
on the format of this file.
crawldelay: if non-empty, this value is provided as the Crawl-Delay:
- for the robots.txt file. see http://ur1.ca/l5a0
- for more information. Default is zero, no explicit delay.
+ for the robots.txt file. see http://ur1.ca/l5a0
+ for more information. Default is zero, no explicit delay.
disallow: Array of (virtual) directories to disallow. Default is 'main',
- 'search', 'message', 'settings', 'admin'. Ignored when site
- is private, in which case the entire site ('/') is disallowed.
+ 'search', 'message', 'settings', 'admin'. Ignored when site
+ is private, in which case the entire site ('/') is disallowed.
Plugins
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