System Preferences

The System Preferences page is accessed via Configure in the main Campsite navigation menu.

This page allows you to control some advanced aspects of your Campsite server, so it is recommended that access is reserved for administrators only.

General Settings

The first section of the System Preferences page is for General Settings.

Here is what each of the options means:

• Site On-Line:These Yes and No radio buttons enable you to put the whole Campsite server on-line or off-line, for example in case of scheduled server maintenance
  
• Site Title: The default name for your publication's website. Your designer can configure your publication's templates to display this information
• Site Meta Keywords: The default keyword meta tags in your header template, for search engine optimization
  
• Site Meta Description: The default description meta tag in your header template, also for search engines
  
• Time Zone: This field enables you to override the server's own time zone setting, which is typically set to Greenwich Mean Time (GMT). You may wish for your Campsite interface to display local time instead, for instance when scheduling publication time for a particular issue
  
• Database Cache Engine:enables or disables the APC cache, which can improve Campsite performance
  
• Template Cache Handler: Select DB to enable the cache for templates
  
• Image cache lifetime: The time that images will be cached for, from 30 seconds to infinite
  
• Allow password recovery: Whether users can get a password reminder by email. Note that if this feature is enabled and your email account is compromised, your Campsite publication can easily be compromised in turn
  
• Secret Key: The security key that Campsite can use for integration of web services and other advanced features
• Session Lifetime: Enables you to specify the maximum duration of Campsite administration sessions without re-authentication, which is a security feature 
  
• Keyword separator: Specify the separator for Keywords in the Edit Article page (comma or hyphen)
  
• Number of failed login attempts before showing CAPTCHA: A security measure designed to foil password-guessing robots
  
• Maximum upload file size: The maximum size of attachments that users of your website can upload
  
• SMTP Host: The server that Campsite will use for sending out email notifications
  
• SMTP Port: The port number that Campsite will use on the specified email server
  

Editor Settings

The second section of the page is for Editor Settings, which refer to image handling.

 

The fields in this section enable you to specify the default resize ratio, or default width and height, for images in articles. If the Zoom enabled for images in article content? radio button is set to Yes, readers can enlarge article images in your publication's pages by clicking on them.

External subscription management

The third section down is related to external subscription management software.

If you select the Yes radio button for the Reader subscriptions managed externally? option, the subscription management features in the Campsite administration interface are hidden. The subscription data is still held in the Campsite database, which your systems administrator will have connected to your third-party subscription management software.

Database replication server

The fourth section enables you to set up Campsite to operate on two servers at once, which is a safety feature in case of hardware or network problems. 

Selecting the Yes radio button for the option Setting up a Campsite Replication Server? displays four fields:

• Database Replication Host: The name or IP address of the remote database server
  
• Database Replication User: The user name to connect with on the remote server
  
• Database Replication Password: The password to submit on the remote server
  
• Database Replication Port: The port number to connect to on the remote server (the default port number is 3306)
  

Using a Campcaster media library

The fifth section enables you to attach media in a Campcaster storage server to articles in your Campsite publication. Once you've installed and configured Campcaster according to the manual at http://en.flossmanuals.net/Campcaster, create a user in the Campcaster administration interface and add it to the Admins group.

Back in the Campsite System Preferences page, select the Yes radio button for the option Enable Campcaster audioclip attachments? Below, you should enter the host name or IP address of the Campcaster server. The values of the fields Port, XML RPC Path and XML RPC File should already be filled in with the default values. You don't need to edit these default values, unless you have a custom Campcaster configuration.

The last step is to give certain users the right to attach audio clips to articles. You can edit a Staff User Type to enable this, so that all users of this type will receive the right automatically. Alternatively, you can enable this right for individual staff user accounts.

Other options

At the end of the System Preferences page are two further options.

 

• Templates filter mask: Enter keywords for templates that you wish to hide on the Configure - Templates page. For example, templates that are no longer in use, but you do not wish to delete from the server
  
• Run cron tasks externally? This means to use the server's own scheduler for automated tasks, rather than the one included in Campsite.
  

Finally, the Save button updates your preferences.