Joomla Database & Meta Keywords/Descriptions Database & Meta Icons: Here you decide whether to show PDF, Print, and Email as icons or as links.
Table of Contents on multi-page items: It is possible to write content that covers several pages. For that, a Mambot is contained in the text. We will discuss this Mambot in greater detail in Chapter 6. If you select Show, a table of contents is automatically produced for this piece of content.
Back Button: This setting allows you to have a Back button on every page.
Content Item Navigation: If you select Show here, a bar with Next and Previous buttons that you can use to navigate through items is placed under the content. Database
This tab shows you the access information for your MySQL server:  Figure 4.20: Database
Server
In the server section you'll find more information about settings that you can change:
Figure 4.21: Server
Absolute Path: The absolute path on your server is the path from the root directory of the server to your Joomla! installation. For example, on a local machine running under Windows, it will be C:/xampplite/xampp/htdocs/Joomla!; on a Linux server, however, it is something like /is/htdocs/wp1007226_40G0RIWV3E/www.
Live Site: The Live Site is the URL by which the site is accessible on the Internet.
Secret Word: This is the encoded administrator password. Refer to the Appendix to find out what to do if you forget your admin password.
GZIP Page Compression: This enables you to compress pages. If the browser and web server support this function, the pages are delivered in ZIP format and unpacked by the client browser. This can substantially increase the speed of page download, especially with slow Internet connections.
Login Session Lifetime: If you log on as a user, you produce a session. Even if you do not log yourself out, this session is deleted after the number of seconds that you set here.
Error Reporting: With these switches, PHP's own error reporting mechanism is activated.
* System Default: Here the settings from the php.ini configuration file are used.
* None: Errors are not logged.
* Simple: Errors and warnings are logged. This setting corresponds to the error_reporting (E_ERROR|E_WARNING|E_PARSE) parameter.
* Maximum: Errors, warnings, and references are logged. This setting corresponds to the error_reporting (E_ALL) parameter.
Help Server: Here you can register another URL for the Joomla! help server.
File Creation: If files on the server are created by Joomla!, the standard rights set up on the server are applied to these files. These settings are usually sufficient. If you have problems with uploads, select the second CHMOD new files option and overwrite the server settings.
Directory Creation: The setup options described for files (refer to the above point) also apply to directories.
Meta Keywords, Meta Description & Metadata Metadata is data about data, for example a description of your site. Metadata plays a role with search engines. How large this role is, however, is disputed. Nevertheless, metadata represents a good way to describe your site in short and concise words. If you look at the HTML source code of a Joomla! page, you can see the following meta tags in the upper area:
<meta name="description" content="Joomla - the dynamic portal engine and content management system" />
<meta name="keywords" content="Joomla, joomla" />
Here you can set default values as shown below:
Figure 4.22: Metadata
Global Site Meta Description: This description of site content is often displayed as the result by search engines. One should therefore pay special attention to this tag, because it is on the basis of this information that the surfer decides whether to visit your site or not.
Global Site Meta Keywords: Keywords are the most important words in a document. They should describe the main purpose of your website. Some search engines particularly favor the keywords. Individual words are separated by commas and several words can be included between two commas with normal blanks. The keywords should be limited to a maximum of 1,000, as more than that are not selected. Note that the use of fewer key words helps each individual word get a higher priority in the search engine. Deliberate about which the most often used keywords are and which are likely to be searched for most.
Show Title Meta Tag: With individual content pages, the content title is blended in as a meta tag.
Show Author Meta Tag: With individual content pages, the author's name is blended in as a meta tag.
Mail
Under this tab, you can decide the methods for sending Joomla! mail, as shown below:
Figure 4.23: Mail Mailer: Here you can select whether you want to use the PHP mail function, Sendmail, or another email account, for example, Yahoo! or GMX.
Mail From: For mail generated by Joomla website, this email address is automatically displayed as the sender.
From Name: This name is automatically displayed as the sender for mail generated by Joomla!.
Sendmail Path: If, instead of the PHP mail function, you want to use the Sendmail program that is presumably available to all Linux servers, you have to enter the path to the program in this textbox.
SMTP Auth: Chose whether you want to use an external mail server.
SMTP User: This is your user name for this email provider.
SMTP Pass: This is your password for this email provider.
SMTP Host: This is the SMTP server of this email provider.
Cache A cache is a temporary storage facility. Your browser, for example, has a picture cache, which makes pictures already downloaded available faster:  Figure 4.24: Cache |
