X-Git-Url: https://git.mxchange.org/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=doc%2FSettings.md;h=e30b4892976bb6de6dac6c8ecfe956a85e5e5674;hb=a60d79e36edc36aebf50908bc11beac02f308ecc;hp=3652562720d440e8f6cb6970cf5e6b4de0005448;hpb=a0a0885527e41e635f12d455890ac2ade62349c6;p=friendica.git diff --git a/doc/Settings.md b/doc/Settings.md index 3652562720..e30b489297 100644 --- a/doc/Settings.md +++ b/doc/Settings.md @@ -130,9 +130,12 @@ By default, any (valid) email address is allowed in registrations. #### Allow Users to set remote_self -If you enable the `Allow Users to set remote_self` users can select Atom feeds from their contact list being their *remote self* in die advanced contact settings. +If you enable the `Allow Users to set remote_self` users can select Atom feeds from their contact list being their *remote self* in the advanced contact settings. Which means that postings by the remote self are automatically reposted by Friendica in their names. +This feature can be used to let the user mirror e.g. blog postings into their Friendica postings. +It is disabled by default, as it causes additional load on the server and may be misused to distribute SPAM. + As admin of the node you can also set this flag directly in the database. Before doing so, you should be sure you know what you do and have a backup of the database. @@ -167,6 +170,19 @@ This will mean you cannot connect (at all) to self-signed SSL sites. ### Worker +This section allows you to configure the background process that is triggered by the `cron` job that was created during the installation. +The process does check the available system resources before creating a new worker for a task. +Because of this, it may happen that the maximum number of worker processes you allow will not be reached. + +If your server setup does not allow you to use the `proc_open` function of PHP, please disable it in this section. + +The tasks for the background process have priorities. +To guarantee that important tasks are executed even though the system has a lot of work to do, it is useful to enable the *fastlane*. + +Should you not be able to run a cron job on your server, you can also activate the *frontend* worker. +If you have done so, you can call `example.com/worker` (replace example.com with your actual domain name) on a regular basis from an external servie. +This will then trigger the execution of the background process. + ### Relocate ## Users @@ -196,7 +212,7 @@ To simplify this process there is a button at the top of the page to reload all ## Themes The Themes section of the admin panel works similar to the Plugins section but let you control the themes on your Friendica node. -Each theme has a dedicated suppage showing the current status, some information about the theme and a screen-shot of the Friendica interface using the theme. +Each theme has a dedicated subpage showing the current status, some information about the theme and a screen-shot of the Friendica interface using the theme. Should the theme offer special settings, admins can set a global default value here. You can activate and deactivate themes on their dedicated sub-pages thus making them available for the users of the node. @@ -226,11 +242,24 @@ The receiving end might be off-line, there might be a high system load and so on Don't panic! Friendica will not queue messages for all time but will sort out *dead* nodes automatically after a while and remove messages from the queue then. +## Server Blocklist + +This page allows to block all communications (inbound and outbound) with a specific domain name. +Each blocked domain entry requires a reason that will be displayed on the [friendica](/friendica) page. +Matching is exact, blocking a domain doesn't block subdomains. + ## Federation Statistics The federation statistics page gives you a short summery of the nodes/servers/pods of the decentralized social network federation your node knows. These numbers are not compleate and only contain nodes from networks Friendica federates directly with. +## Delete Item + +Using this page an admin can delete postings and eventually associated discussion threads from their Friendica node. +To do so, they need to know the GUID of the posting. +This can be found on the `/display` page of the posting, it is the last part of the URL displayed in the browsers navigation bar. +You can get to the `/display` page by following the *Link to source*. + ## Plugin Features Some of the addons you can install for your Friendica node have settings which have to be set by the admin.