System-Settings

To administer basic system settings and settings for certain plugins go to Configuration -> Settings in the backend.

Root Theme

The selected theme will be used, when the URL of a single content on root-level is called, for example the default loginform under "index.php/login". By selecting a root theme you can change the appearance of those contents (Other contents, that are not on root-level, are displayed with the theme of their parent-page).

Clean URL's

Dubsite's URL's are clean (human readable) by default, because they are built from the alias-names of pages and contents.

Anyway, there is still the "index.php" in the URL. To get rid of it, your server must support apache's mod_rewrite and .htaccess-files (the directive "AllowOverride" should be set to "All" in the server-config). Then you can enable this option.

Caching

The results of DB-queries and other items are cached server-side by the system and stored in the folder "data/cache". Caching should always be enabled, unless you are developing and testing new plugins. In this case caching can lead to unexpected results.

When you uncheck the checkbox "Enable caching", caching is disabled AND all files in "data/cache" will be deleted. You can delete the cache also by clicking the button "Clear Cache".

Always disable caching when you're developing plugins or when you make manual changes to the database.

The cache lifetime specifies, how long items are stored in the cache, until they get refreshed (in seconds). However, independent from the cache lifetime single items in the cache get refreshed, when certain write-actions are taken, for example when a content gets updated. There is no reason to set the cache lifetime to a low value. The default is 86400 (24 hours).

Email settings

You can define the parameters for sending emails via SMTP. When an application (like the "Webform"-plugin) sends a mail, the specified SMTP-connection will be used.

The system needs the email-address (this will be the sender's address when emails are sent), the SMTP-credentials (username and password), the SMTP-servername and the port (usually 25).

Settings for plugins

Some plugins require a simple user interface for internal settings. All further settings that you see under Configuration -> Settings are provided by those plugins.