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Chapter 3. Administration Guide

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Table of Contents

3.1. The Administration Control Panel
3.2. General Configuration and Front Page
3.2.1. Board Configuration
3.2.1.1. Attachment Settings
3.2.1.2. Board Settings
3.2.1.3. Board Features
3.2.1.4. Avatar Settings
3.2.1.5. Private Messaging
3.2.2. Client communication
3.2.2.1. Authentication
3.2.2.2. Email settings
3.2.2.3. Jabber settings
3.2.3. Server configuration
3.2.3.1. Cookie settings
3.2.3.2. Server settings
3.2.3.3. Security settings
3.2.3.4. Load settings
3.2.3.5. Search settings
3.3. Forum Admin
3.3.1. Explanation of forum types
3.3.2. Subforums
3.3.3. Manage forums
3.4. Posting Settings
3.4.1. BBCodes
3.4.2. Private message settings
3.4.3. Topic icons
3.4.4. Smilies
3.4.5. Word censoring
3.4.6. Attachment Settings
3.4.7. Manage extensions
3.4.8. Manage extension groups
3.4.9. Orphaned attachments
3.5. Users Management
3.5.1. Manage Users
3.5.1.1. User Overview
3.5.1.2. User Feedback
3.5.1.3. User Profile
3.5.1.4. User Preferences
3.5.1.5. User Avatar
3.5.1.6. User Rank
3.5.1.7. User Signature
3.5.1.8. Groups
3.5.1.9. Permissions
3.5.1.10. Attachments
3.5.2. Inactive Users
3.5.3. Users' permissions
3.5.4. Users' forum permissions
3.5.5. Custom profile fields
3.5.6. Managing ranks
3.5.7. User Security
3.5.7.1. Ban emails
3.5.7.2. Ban IPs
3.5.7.3. Ban Users
3.5.7.4. Disallow usernames
3.5.7.5. Prune users
3.6. Group Management
3.6.1. Group types
3.6.2. Group attributes
3.6.3. Default groups
3.7. Permission Overload
3.7.1. Global Permissions
3.7.2. Forum Based Permissions
3.7.3. Permission Roles
3.7.4. Permission Masks
3.8. Styles
3.8.1. Installing and managing styles
3.8.2. Templates
3.8.3. Themes
3.8.4. Imagesets
3.9. Board Maintenance
3.9.1. Forum Logs
3.9.2. Database backup and restore
3.9.3. Search Indexing
3.10. System Configuration
3.10.1. Checking for updates
3.10.2. Managing Search Robots
3.10.3. Mass email
3.10.4. Language Packs
3.10.5. PHP Information
3.10.6. Manage reasons for reporting and denying posts
3.10.7. Module Management

Abstract

This chapter describes the phpBB 3.0 admin controls.