Translations by Masayuki Kuwada

The administration in Mahara is reserved for site and institution administrators. Configuration settings and functionalities that are only available to site administrators with full privileges are marked as such.

*Configure site* is only accessible by site administrators.

In *Configure site* you can:

set general parameters for your Mahara site

In *Site options* you can set global options that will apply by default throughout the entire site.

One or more fields may be disabled if overridden by a setting in your config.php file.

When you are done editing one or more settings, click the *Update site options* button at the bottom of the page.

**Site name**: Choose a name for your Mahara instance. It appears in certain places around the site, e.g. in the title bar of the browser and in emails sent from the site. Therefore, it should not be too long.

**Language**: Set the default language for your site. If you have multiple language packs installed, you see a drop-down menu. Otherwise, the standard language, English, is displayed.

**Country**: The country selected is the default for country selections throughout your Mahara installation, e.g. in :ref:`contact information <contact_info>`.

**Theme**: Mahara comes with a number of themes that you can use. Choose one from the drop-down menu to make it the default theme for your site. If you have :ref:`institutions <site_admin_institutions>` set up, they can :ref:`choose their own theme <add_institution>`. You can `search for community-contributed themes <https://wiki.mahara.org/index.php/Themes/Contributed_themes>`_ on the Mahara wiki.

You can configure the internal search plugin in the :ref:`administration of the search plugin <plugin_search>`.

**Proxy authentication model**: Select your proxy's authentication model (none or basic [NCSA]), if appropriate.

**Proxy credentials**: Enter the credentials required for your proxy to authenticate your web server in ``username:password`` format.

Email settings

**SMTP host**: If you want to force Mahara to use a specific SMTP server instead of the system one, enter its hostname here, e.g. ``smtp.example.com``. It is possible to specify more than one host by separating them with semicolons, e.g. ``smtp1.example.com;smtp2.example.com``, but keep in mind that all other settings, e.g. authentication credentials and port numbers, will apply to all listed servers. It is not possible to specify different credentials for each server in this list. This feature is useful when SMTP host authentication is not required or you list different frontends for the same mail server in which case other settings will work.

**SMTP encryption**: If your SMTP server supports encryption, enable it here.

**Log events**: Decide which events you wish to log in the database. Events are generated every time the user does something significant on the site, such as editing a page. This log is kept in the ``event_log`` table in the database.

**Event log expiry**: Decide for how long you wish to keep your database log. If you selected to log all events, the table can grow quite quickly especially on an active site. This time may be specified in days, weeks, months, years or "No end date". If the latter option is chosen, the event log is not deleted by default.

**event**: action being carried out, e.g. beginning of a masqueradin session, saving of an artefact, deleting of a page or artefact, update user information, placing a block onto a page

**data**: additional information about the action, e.g. the ID of a block that is updated

Here you can edit the content of some pages around the site and the pages linked to in the footer:

All pages come with default text that you can change entirely. Every page must contain some text. You can use the visual editor to style your page.

**Page name**: Choose the page you want to edit from the drop-down menu.

**Page text**: Change the text in the editor window. You cannot leave this field empty.

The *Links and resources* menu appears to all users on most pages in the side bar. You can decide which links or files are available to everybody - also those without a login - and which ones only logged-in users shall see.

Provide the full URL to the link including ``http://`` or ``https://``.

You can also link to files that you have uploaded to the :ref:`site files area <site_files>`.

If you wish to display your links and resources in a specific order, map that order out before you add the links and files because you cannot change the order afterwards.

You have control over which links are displayed in the footer on each page.

In order to use networking site-wide with any institution, you need to:

Depending on which site you wish to connect, you may need to provide some of the other information on the page, in particular the *WWW root* and the *public key*.

You set up MNet for an institution when you :ref:`edit the authentication method XML-RPC <mnet>`.

Click the *Edit* button |edit| to change properties of a license. You can change the display name, acronym and the license icon, but not its URL. If you want to change the latter, you will need to create a new license.

**Acronym**: If the license you want to add also has a commonly known acronym, you can enter it.

**Icon**: If the license you add has a logo that you want to display next to the icense, e.g. on the details page of an artefact, you can link it here.

This can be a http://... or https://... URL to an image elsewhere on your site or anywhere on the Internet.

Click the *Save* button to keep your changes to the license.