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Tutorials
Advanced access control
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- By:
- Chris Graham (ocProducts)
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- August 1st 2008
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- Today
- Difficulty:
- Expert
- Tutorial type:
- Core documentation
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Advanced permission management within Composr, for power-users.
Using IP addresses to trace users
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- By:
- Chris Graham (ocProducts)
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- August 1st 2008
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- Today
- Difficulty:
- Regular
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- 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.
Keeping Track of a busy Composr Site
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- By:
- Steve Jarvis, Sponsored by Arvixe hosting
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- August 1st 2014
- Edited:
- Today
- Difficulty:
- Novice
- Tutorial type:
- Auxillary
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This tutorial covers some regular and irregular maintenance tasks you'll want to perform.
Integrating Composr into a network via HTTP authentication
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- By:
- Chris Graham (ocProducts)
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- August 1st 2008
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- Today
- Difficulty:
- Expert
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- 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.
Stopping Spammers in Composr
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- By:
- Steve Jarvis, Sponsored by Arvixe hosting
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- April 1st 2014
- Edited:
- Today
- 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.
Creating a Hidden Members Zone in Composr
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- By:
- Steve Jarvis, Sponsored by Arvixe hosting
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- February 1st 2014
- Edited:
- Today
- 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.
Editing Site-Wide Privileges in Composr
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- By:
- Steve Jarvis, Sponsored by Arvixe hosting
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- April 1st 2014
- Edited:
- Today
- Difficulty:
- Novice
- Tutorial type:
- Auxillary
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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.
SU and the if_in_group tag
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- By:
- Allen Ellis (ocProducts)
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- July 8th 2024
- 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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- March 1st 2013
- Edited:
- Today
- Difficulty:
- Novice
- Tutorial type:
- Auxillary
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In this first Composr tutorial of mine I give a brief overview of Composr.
Dealing with annoying users
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- By:
- Chris Graham (ocProducts)
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- August 1st 2008
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- Today
- 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.
Access control and privileges
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- By:
- Philip Withnall (ocProducts)
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- August 1st 2008
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- Today
- Difficulty:
- Novice
- Tutorial type:
- Core documentation
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A detailed explanation of how you can configure permissions, how to test them, and how to manage them.
Integrating Composr into a corporate network via LDAP
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- By:
- Chris Graham (ocProducts)
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- August 1st 2008
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- Today
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- Expert
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- Core documentation
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How to integrate Composr into a corporate network via LDAP (OpenLDAP, or Microsoft Active Directory).
Security
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- By:
- Chris Graham (ocProducts)
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- August 1st 2008
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- Today
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- Expert
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- Core documentation
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Details and guidance on the advanced security protections available in Composr.
ModSecurity
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- By:
- temp1024 and Chris Graham (ocProducts)
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- May 1st 2015
- Edited:
- Today
- Difficulty:
- Regular
- Tutorial type:
- Auxillary
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Explanation of how to configure ModSecurity for Composr.
Security in Composr
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- By:
- Steve Jarvis, Sponsored by Arvixe hosting
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- September 1st 2013
- Edited:
- Today
- 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.
Anti-spam settings
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- By:
- Chris Graham (ocProducts)
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- December 1st 2014
- Edited:
- Today
- Difficulty:
- Expert
- Tutorial type:
- Core documentation
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Tools and techniques for preventing spam in Composr.
Using the if_in_group in Composr
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- By:
- Steve Jarvis, Sponsored by Arvixe hosting
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- February 1st 2014
- Edited:
- Today
- Difficulty:
- Novice
- Tutorial type:
- Auxillary
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We give an example of showing different content to different usergroups.
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