Tutorials – Learning Composr

Tutorials

Dealing with annoying users

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By:
Chris Graham (ocProducts)
Added:
July 31st 2008
Edited:
April 7th 2024
Difficulty:
Novice
Tutorial type:
Core documentation
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Little tricks: changing their permissions via usergroups, mandating prior post approval, and how to ban them.

Advanced access control

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By:
Chris Graham (ocProducts)
Added:
July 31st 2008
Edited:
April 7th 2024
Difficulty:
Expert
Tutorial type:
Core documentation
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Advanced permission management within Composr, for power-users.

ModSecurity

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By:
temp1024 and Chris Graham (ocProducts)
Added:
April 30th 2015
Edited:
April 7th 2024
Difficulty:
Regular
Tutorial type:
Auxillary
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Explanation of how to configure ModSecurity for Composr.

SU and the if_in_group tag

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By:
Allen Ellis (ocProducts)
Added:
April 8th 2023
Media type:
Video
Difficulty:
Novice
Tutorial type:
Auxillary
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How to switch users under your admin login, and how to customise page contents based on usergroup membership.

An Introduction to Composr

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By:
Steve Jarvis, Sponsored by Arvixe hosting
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February 28th 2013
Edited:
April 7th 2024
Difficulty:
Novice
Tutorial type:
Auxillary
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In this first Composr tutorial of mine I give a brief overview of Composr.

Creating a Hidden Members Zone in Composr

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By:
Steve Jarvis, Sponsored by Arvixe hosting
Added:
January 31st 2014
Edited:
April 7th 2024
Difficulty:
Novice
Tutorial type:
Auxillary
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It's quite common for community sites to have a hidden member's area of the site where you can post private updates or information relating to things you don't want guests to see.

Security

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By:
Chris Graham (ocProducts)
Added:
July 31st 2008
Edited:
April 7th 2024
Difficulty:
Expert
Tutorial type:
Core documentation
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Details and guidance on the advanced security protections available in Composr.

Security in Composr

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By:
Steve Jarvis, Sponsored by Arvixe hosting
Added:
August 31st 2013
Edited:
April 7th 2024
Difficulty:
Novice
Tutorial type:
Auxillary
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The inbuilt security of Composr is one of its strongest features. This ranges from many inbuilt features to the close integration of features using the same very high coding standards.

Stopping Spammers in Composr

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By:
Steve Jarvis, Sponsored by Arvixe hosting
Added:
March 31st 2014
Edited:
April 7th 2024
Difficulty:
Novice
Tutorial type:
Auxillary
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One thing every website has to contend with eventually will be stopping spammers from making your user's life a misery. This tutorial goes over some features within Composr.

Editing Site-Wide Privileges in Composr

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By:
Steve Jarvis, Sponsored by Arvixe hosting
Added:
March 31st 2014
Edited:
April 7th 2024
Difficulty:
Novice
Tutorial type:
Auxillary
Tags:

When you are creating a new usergroup you will usually want to customise the permissions for all of the members within. This tutorial explains how privileges work.

Using IP addresses to trace users

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By:
Chris Graham (ocProducts)
Added:
July 31st 2008
Edited:
April 7th 2024
Difficulty:
Regular
Tutorial type:
Core documentation
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If you find a hacker, you may want to try and trace them back to a real world source. We introduce you to your toolkit.

Integrating Composr into a network via HTTP authentication

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By:
Chris Graham (ocProducts)
Added:
July 31st 2008
Edited:
April 7th 2024
Difficulty:
Expert
Tutorial type:
Core documentation
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Sometimes, for integration reasons, you want users to login in to Composr via HTTP authentication. We show you how.

Using the if_in_group in Composr

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By:
Steve Jarvis, Sponsored by Arvixe hosting
Added:
January 31st 2014
Edited:
April 7th 2024
Difficulty:
Novice
Tutorial type:
Auxillary
Tags:

We give an example of showing different content to different usergroups.

Integrating Composr into a corporate network via LDAP

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By:
Chris Graham (ocProducts)
Added:
July 31st 2008
Edited:
April 7th 2024
Difficulty:
Expert
Tutorial type:
Core documentation
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How to integrate Composr into a corporate network via LDAP (OpenLDAP, or Microsoft Active Directory).

Access control and privileges

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By:
Philip Withnall (ocProducts)
Added:
July 31st 2008
Edited:
April 7th 2024
Difficulty:
Novice
Tutorial type:
Core documentation
Tags:

A detailed explanation of how you can configure permissions, how to test them, and how to manage them.

Anti-spam settings

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By:
Chris Graham (ocProducts)
Added:
November 30th 2014
Edited:
April 7th 2024
Difficulty:
Expert
Tutorial type:
Core documentation
Tags:

Tools and techniques for preventing spam in Composr.

Keeping Track of a busy Composr Site

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By:
Steve Jarvis, Sponsored by Arvixe hosting
Added:
July 31st 2014
Edited:
April 7th 2024
Difficulty:
Novice
Tutorial type:
Auxillary
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This tutorial covers some regular and irregular maintenance tasks you'll want to perform.

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