The settings established on the Server Defaults page will be loaded, when necessary, into users’ sessions when users log into a Xinet Portal site. The settings are recorded in the following location:
Site Configuration page settings (explained in
Site Configuration), which in some ways,
Server Defaults closely resemble, have their own locations within
config.inc.php files within individual sites. Settings on each site’s
Configuration page take precedence over settings on the
Server Defaults page whenever there is a conflict. For new sites based on the
Exhibit theme,
Server Defaults settings will have little effect, with a few exceptions noted later, because the options on their
Configuration pages are so closely identical to those on the
Server Defaults page.
For one circumstance in particular, all sites rely on the applicable setting from the Server Defaults page, i.e., either the
Default Portal Site. As Xinet Portal servers can simultaneous host many different Web sites, when a user pastes into his or her browser a URL for an asset that does not contain the name of the site or the site has been deleted from the server but the asset still resides there, Xinet Portal will automatically divert users to the site specified in the applicable
Default Portal Site.
The Default Portal Site pop-up lists allow you to establish appropriate
Default Portal sites. The lists will display previously-configured sites on the server.
In addition, the settings you establish on the Server Defaults page for the following parameters will automatically be transferred to the respective
Configuration pages when you add new sites, although of course, you can always change the information that appears there:
A config.inc.php file at the top level of each Xinet Portal site controls important functionality in the site. (
Xinet Portal Themes contains information about the structure of individual Xinet Portal sites.) You will automatically change settings contained within the
config.inc.php file for your default
site when you edit their
Configuration pages. Although it is possible to edit
config.inc.php files by hand, it is recommended that administrators do so through GUI settings.
The following steps provide information about establishing settings on Configuration pages. The corresponding entry within the
config.inc.php file has been noted in parenthesis for each step.
