System settings

You can modify the settings entirely through the Sitefinity backend UI. All Sitefinity-specific settings are taken out of the project’s web.config file and put into separate configuration files in the App_Data/Sitefinity/Configurations folder. The web.config file includes only standard ASP.NET configurations. This means that Sitefinity upgrades do not override client configuration settings.

• Basic settings
  To configure Sitefinity settings, in the menu at the upper part of the screen, click Administration » Settings.
  The Basic Settings page appears. On this page you can change in a user friendly way the most commonly used settings, such as general settings, settings for comments and languages.
  For more information, see Basic settings.
• Advanced settings
  If you need to configure settings other than those on Basic Settings page, click Advanced.
  The Settings page appears.
  The Settings page has the following structure:
  • Treeview with a list of all configuration sections.
  • Element section for editing configuration elements.
  • List of properties that could be configured in the backend.

Section contents

Use this section to make the following configurations:

• Configuring LDAP settings
  Use this procedure to configure LDAP - Lightweight Directory Access Protocol for accessing directories over an IP network.
• Configuring SMTP setting
  Use this procedure to configure email setting – SMTP stand for Simple Mail Transfer Protocol. The settings are needed every time the system must send email.
• Running different websites with the same credentials
  Use this procedure to login with the same credentials to different websites that run on the same localhost, using the same browser.
• Registering a new widget in Sitefinity
  In addition to the standard widgets, you can use your own widgets. Before you can use them, you must register them in Sitefinity Toolbox.
• Configuring caching
  Libraries, such as image albums or video libraries, support output (server) and client (browser) caching. Configuring caching increases your performance.
• Configuring the password recovery link
  Use this procedure, in case the Forgot your password? link on the login page is not working.
• Configuring Windows Azure storage provider
  Use this procedure to configure Windows Azure Storage as an external BLOB (Binary Large Object) storage provider for your libraries.