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This chapter covers the following topics:
How to change default configurations via exo.properties.
Explanation of eXo Platform configuration, its directory and some parts of eXo Platform internals.
A reference to eXo configuration properties.
Explanations of several paths in the local file system.
Information about the default timeout value of JCR transaction, and the value when your application runs longer transactions.
The server base URL is used to generate links (in emails for example). It is necessary to configure it to make the links right.
How to skip the Account Setup and Greetings! screens in eXo Platform.
Custom data validators configuration
How to configure custom data validators.
The SMTP configurations required for sending emails.
Changing sender information of email notification
Configuration about sender from which all email notifications are sent.
Subscribing to notifications of document changes
The email configuration for watching a document.
Configuration of the WebDAV service.
How to configure the file types associated with the application and to set a new label.
How to enable and configure document preview feature that allows users to read online many document types like MS Word.
Limiting the size of uploaded files
Instructions to configure the maximum allowed size of uploaded files.
Limiting public access to the upload service
How to configure the upload handler for preventing unauthenticated users to use the upload service.
Instructions to configure the import mode for ACME and Intranet sites.
Enabling/Disabling auto-creating a taxonomy tree
Instructions on how to enable/disable auto-creating a taxonomy tree during a new site creation.
Enabling/Disabling Activity type
Instructions on how to enable/disable an activity type from posting on streams.
Introduction to the logs of eXo Platform, and where to configure this function.
Details of the set of properties which control the JCR behavior.
Overall introduction to the Cache configuration of eXo Platform, including: Portal, Social, and ECMS.
Predefined users, groups and memberships
The configurations for users, groups and memberships initialization.
Information about the OAuth key that will be used in case the OAuth gadgets do not indicate a key, and how to disable the Shindig default online features.
Parameter for enabling/disabling Groovy Templates statistics.
Search connector configuration
Configuration for activating/de-activating a Search connector.
Configuration for enabling/disabling Fuzzy search and adjusting the similarity criterion.
Configuration of Elasticsearch parameters.
CometD introduction and how to configure it.
Instruction to enable the Youtube integration using a YouTube V3 API Key.
Configuration related to the Email/On-site Notification feature.
Instruction to enable the Document versioning and control the generated versions.
Configuration related to the Document Viewer component.
Configuration related to the Forgot Password feature.
Users who upgrade from a previous version older than 4.3 will need to beware of the new default encryption algorithm.
Configuration related to the project workflow in the Task Management application.
Configuration needed for eXo Chat.
Parameter for enabling/disabling the update of user's last login time.