§Configuration page overview
The configuration page sets defaults for all of your weblogs.
§Site Name
This determines the overall name for your website.
§Default Language
This is the default language for your site. This is the lingo you'll see when logging in, and also the language that will be set for new users. It is also the fallback language for Pivot that gets used when it cannot determine what language to use.
§Debug Options
If things don't work as expected, Pivot can show you what goes wrong. You don't need debugging for normal operation.
§Debug Mode
Turns debugging on or off. Useful if you run into problems. yes/no, defaults to no.
§Logfiles
Pivot can log several actions, i.e. creation of new entries etc. [[*]]. Also useful when you run into problems. yes/no, defaults to no
§File upload
You can use Pivot to upload files to your webserver, so no need to do that with FTP. In this version of Pivot, it's limited to images only. This functionality will be extended to movie clips, mp3 files and other media in a next release.§File Upload Path
The path, relative to the frontpage of your weblog where Pivot puts your images.
Defaults to images/
§Overwrite
If you upload a file, and its name exists, what should Pivot do?
yes/no/increment filename, defaults to increment filename, i.e. add some autonumbering so files keep their unique filenames.
§Maximum Filesize
The maximum filesize Pivot will accept for an uploaded file.
Defaults to 5000000, approx. 5 Mb
§Automatic Thumbnails
Whether Pivot creates thumbnails of your uploaded images or not.
§Thumbnail Width
The maximum width of the thumbnails Pivot generates.
§Thumbnail Heighth
The maximum height of the thumbnails Pivot generates.
§Remote Cropping Script
Some servers don't have the necessary libraries installed to perform image cropping. If that's the case, you can enter a URL to another cropping script here.
Note: This isn't functional yet. Will be added in a next release.
§Date/Time Offset
If, for instance, you live in Denmark, but your server is in the United States,
the time on your server is not the same time as at home. This can be annoying,
since this time is used to calculate the dates under your entries.
Use this to tell Pivot the difference in time between your place and the server's.
§Time Offset Unit
How should Pivot measure the difference?
year/month/day/hour/minute, defaults to hour
§Time Offset
How many units to add or subtract from the server's time to get your time at home. For instance, noon in New York is 18:00 in Copenhagen. The time offset should be 6, since the New York server's Pivot should add 6 hours to it's local time to get Copenhagen time.
Defaults to '0'
§Ping Setup
Pinging is telling others you've updated your weblog. You do so by contacting another server. This server then visits your website and determines whether it has changed. Services like blogrolling.com depend on this.
§Ping Update Trackers
Whether to ping by default yes/no, defaults to yes
§URLs to ping
Where to ping to. Some defaults are already mentioned in this section. If you don't know which one to choose, stick to the most commonly used ones:
rpc.weblogs.com/RPC2
ping.blo.gs
§Various Settings
§Use WYSIWYG by default
Wheter to use the built-in Wysiwyg editor, suitable for Internet Explorer,
Mozilla 1.3+ / Firebird 0.6+. Other browsers are not able to use the Wysiwyg
editor. (Note: This is not because we do not want to provide it for
other browsers, but because those browsers simply do not support the used
technology)
yes/no, defaults to no
If you choose not to use the WYSIWYG editor by default, you'll get a nice plaintext editor to edit your entries.
§Default Text Processing
Determines the default text processing, when a user is using the non-wysiwyg editor. 'Convert Linebreaks' does nothing more than change linebreaks to a <br />-tag. Textile is a powerful, yet easy to learn markup style.
none/convert linebreaks/textile, defaults to convert linebreaks
§Open links in new window
Determines if all links used in entries will open links in a new browser window.
yes/no, defaults to no
§Use Filesmatch
Whether you want to use Apache's filesmatch to create nifty URL's, like www.mysite.com/archive/2003/05/30/nice_weather, instead of www.mysite.com/pivot/entry.php?id=134. Since this feature requires mod_rewrite to be set in the webserver's config, it cannot be used on all servers. In the appendices you'll find a more detailed description of the uses of filesmatch.
yes/no, defaults to no
§Autoupdate Search Index
This will determine if the Search Index files will be updated every time you submit a new entry, or you change an existing one.
yes/no, defaults to yes