System Configuration

Several system settings are available by clicking on 'Configure System' in the upper right portion of the action bar. This page contains two forms, the first allows you to has a number of “higher level” settings while the second allows you to change database information. The user settings accordion contains the following options:

User Registration: Can new users register? If registration is closed only users with the “Create User” permission will be able to add users to the system.

User Activation: Users must be activated before they sign in. The manual setting requires a user with the “Activate User” permission to go and activate users that register. If set to “email confirmation” users will receive an email with a link to activate their user. With automatic activation, users are immediately activated upon signing up.

Content Lock Length: Groupy locks content when editing in order to prevent users from overwriting each others changes. The longer the content lock length, the more time is reserved and therefore the possibility that a user will edit a piece of content and overwrite someone else's changes are reduced. This however may create situations where users are prevented from editing content.

The Advanced accordion has the following settings:

Image Library: Which library is used to resize, rotate and crop images? Use the Imagemagik library if possible. The GD2 library can run into memory size limitations when dealing with large images.

Sites to Ping: This determines which sites should be notified when you update content, via a XMLRPC ping.

Feed Format: Determines what type of XML feed is linked to. Not all web browsers pay attention to this option. In order for users of older versions Internet Explorer users to see your feeds you must include a FeedList module in your layout.

User Pretty URLs: The provides nice human readable URLs for content based on the URL name of the groups and content. This requires mod_rewrite to be enabled.

Show Stack Traces: Helpful in fixing errors.

Passthrough Directories: These are directories which Groupy allows apache to serve bypassing the petty URLs. This allows you to put other content management systems in a directory inside the directory where Groupy is installed.

The Database and Locale settings are written to an external file, and therefore you must hit reload to see changes.