For configuring the system, Gosora has a file called `config/config.json` which you can tweak to change various behaviours, it also has a few settings in the Setting Manager in the Control Panel.
Port - The port you want Gosora to listen on. This will usually be 443 for HTTPS and 80 for HTTP. Gosora will try to bind to both, if you're on HTTPS to redirect users from the HTTP site to the HTTPS one.
EnableEmails - Determines whether the SMTP mail subsystem is enabled. The experimental plugin sendmail also allows you to send emails without SMTP in a similar style to some languages like PHP, although it only works on Linux and has some issues.
HasProxy - Brittle, but lets you set whether you're sitting behind a proxy like Cloudflare. Unknown effects with reverse-proxies like Nginx.
Language - The language you want to use. Defaults to english. Please consult [internationalisation](https://git.tuxpa.in/a/gosora/blob/master/docs/internationalisation.md) for details.
DefaultPath - The route you want the homepage `/` to default to. Examples: `/topics/` or `/forums/`
DefaultGroup - The group you want users to be moved to once they're activated. Example: 3
ActivationGroup - The group you want users to be placed in while they're awaiting activation. Example: 5
StaffCSS - Classes you want applied to the postbits for staff posts. This setting is deprecated and will likely be replaced with a more generic mechanism in the near future.
DefaultForum - The default forum for the drop-down in the quick topic creator. Please note that FID 1 is reserved for the default reports forum. Example: 2
MinifyTemplates - Whether you want the HTML pages to be minified prior to being send to the client.
BuildSlugs - Whether you want the title appear in the URL. For instance: `/topic/traffic-in-paris.5` versus `/topic/5`
ServerCount - The number of instances you're running. This setting is currently experimental.
LastIPCutoff - The number of months which need to pass before the last IP stored for a user is automatically deleted. Capped at 12. 0 defaults to whatever the current default is, currently 3 and -1 disables this feature.
PostIPCutoff - The number of days which need to pass before the IP data for a post is automatically deleted. 0 defaults to whatever the current default is, currently 90 and -1 disables this feature.
PollIPCutoff - The number of days which need to pass before the IP data for a poll is automatically deleted. 0 defaults to whatever the current default is, currently 90 and -1 disables this feature.
DisableIP - Master switch to disable tracking user IPs for any purpose. May not entirely clear already stored data, or data logged by an upstream like a reverse-proxy. Currently doesn't cover net/http ErrorLog. Default: false
LogPruneCutoff - The number of days which need to pass before the login and registration logs are pruned. 0 defaults to whatever the current default is, currently 180 and -1 disables this feature.
DisableJSAntispam - This switch lets you disable the JS anti-spam feature. It may be useful if you primarily get users who for one reason or another have decided to disable JavaScript. Default: false
LooseHost - Disable host header checks in the router. This may be useful when using a reverse-proxy like Nginx / Apache to stop it white-screening. Default: false
LoosePort - Disable port match checks in the router. This may be useful when using a reverse-proxy like Nginx / Apache to stop it white-screening. Default: false
SslSchema - Allow for HTTPS URLs without necessarily using a HTTPS listener. This might be useful if a reverse-proxy or otherwise terminates the SSL / TLS connection instead of Gosora. Default: false
EnableCDNPush - This switch lets you enable the HTTP/2 CDN Server Push feature. This operates by sending a Link header on every request and may also work with reverse-proxies like Nginx for doing HTTP/2 server pushes.
DisableNoavatarRange - This switch lets you disable the noavatar algorithm which maps IDs to a set ranging from 0 to 50 for better cacheability. Default: false
DisableDefaultNoavatar - This switch lets you disable the default noavatar algorithm which may intercept noavatars for increased efficiency. Default: false
RefNoTrack - This switch disables tracking the referrers of users who click from another site to your site and the referrers of any requests to resources from other sites as-well.
RefNoRef - This switch makes it so that if a user clicks on a link, then the incoming site won't know which site they're coming from.
NoAvatar - The default avatar to use for users when they don't have their own. The default for this may change in the near future to better utilise HTTP/2. Example: https://api.adorable.io/avatars/{width}/{id}.png
ItemsPerPage - The number of posts, topics, etc. you want on each page.
MaxTopicTitleLength - The maximum length that a topic can be. Please note that this measures the number of bytes and may differ from language to language with it being equal to a letter in English and being two bytes in others.
MaxUsernameLength - The maximum length that a user's name can be. Please note that this measures the number of bytes and may differ from language to language with it being equal to a letter in English and being two bytes in others.
WriteTimeout - The number of seconds that a route is allowed to run for before the request is automatically terminated. Defaults to 10.
IdleTimeout - The number of seconds that a Keep-Alive connection will be kept open before being closed. You might to tweak this, if you use Cloudflare or similar. Defaults to 120.
DisableSuspLog - Whether suspicious requests are logged in the suspicious request logs. Enabling this may make a site faster. Defaults: false.
DisableBadRouteLog - Whether requests referencing routes which don't exist should be individually logged. Enabling this may make a site faster. Default: false
Adapter - The name of the database adapter. `mysql` and `mssql` are options, although mssql may not work properly in the latest version of Gosora. PgSQL support is in the works.
Host - The host of the database you wish to connect to. Example: localhost
Username - The username for the database you wish to connect to. Example: root
Password - The password for the database you wish to connect to. Example: password
Dbname - The name of the database you want to use. Example: gosora
Port - The port the database is listening on. Usually 3306 for MySQL.
TestAdapter - A test version of Adapter. Only used for testing purposes.
TestHost - A test version of Host. Only used for testing purposes.
TestUsername - A test version of Username. Only used for testing purposes.
TestPassword - A test version of Password. Only used for testing purposes.
TestDbname - A test version of Dbname. Only used for testing purposes.
TestPort - A test version of Port. Only used for testing purposes.
# Dev
DebugMode - Outputs a basic level of information about what Gosora is doing to help ease debugging.
SuperDebug - Outputs a detailed level of information about what Gosora is doing to help ease debugging. Warning: This may cause severe slowdowns in Gosora.
TemplateDebug - Output a detailed level of information about what Gosora is doing during the template transpilation step. Warning: Large amounts of information will be dumped into the logs.
