3.1 Initial Setup

Ok, you go to the URL of your website and there's the ``Welcome to Scoop!'' message. Before you make the site public, there are a few things that you'll really want to change.

Note: if you just get a directory listing, check to make sure that you followed the directions in the section 2 completely, and that the Apache that's running is the one you compiled, has mod_perl working, and has been freshly started with the Scoop code present.

First, log in as `scoop' with the password you entered in the install phase. If you installed by hand and didn't use the install.pl script, the initial password is also `scoop'. Once you're logged in, the login fields should disappear and in their place is a box titled `scoop'. Not far below that, another new box has appeared, titled `Admin Tools'.

The first thing to do is to make sure all of the required settings are right. All site-wide settings can be found in Site Controls, in your Admin Tools box.

Note: if you get `Permission Denied' when you click on Site Controls, there's probably something wrong with your cookies. See section 2.5.2 for details on how it should be set up.

Most of the default settings should work, but there are some that you should definitely change, all in the `General' category:

The Site Controls interface allows two ways of changing settings:

When using the category list, you can only change the value; when using the single variable form, you can change any part of the variable. You'll generally only need to change the value, and once your site is set up you probably won't visit this tool very often.


janra
2004-03-26