General Configuration
Overview
This administrative page manages configurations for Fess. You can change Fess’s behavior without rebooting the Fess.
Management Operations
Display Configurations
Select System > General in the left menu to display General Configuration page, as below.
System
JSON Response
Enable JSON response of Search features.
Login Required
Search pages are not displayed on Guest user if enabled.
Login Link
Login menu is displayed at the top of search pages if enabled.
Similar Result Collapsed
Collapse similar results in search result page.
Thumbnail View
Display thumbnail images in search result page.
Default Label Value
Specify default labels on search pages. e.g. “role:admin=label1” is that users which has admin role use labels1 as default labels.
Default Sort Value
Specify default sort order on search pages. e.g. “role:admin=content_length.desc” is that users which has admin role use content_length.desc as default sort order.
Virtual Hosts
Specify virtual hosts settings. The format is REQUEST_HEADER_NAME:REQUEST_HEADER_VALUE=VIRTUAL_HOST_KEY. (e.g. Host:fess.codelibs.org=fess)
Popular Word Response
Enable JSON response of Popular words.
Encoding for CSV
This encoding is used in uploaded/downloaded CSV file.
Append Params to URL
Append query parameters to URL of search results.
Notification Email
Specify e-mail address to send notification mail.
Crawler
Check Last Modified
Enable incremental crawling. Crawler checks time stamp of a document at indexing time.
Simultaneous Crawler Config
The number of Crawlers which deals with simultaneous crawling configuration.
Remove Documents Before
Days which old documents are removed. e.g. documents indexed X days ago are removed if they are not updated.
Excluded Failure Type
Crawler does not ignore failure URLs included in excluded failure types even if the failure count is over the threshold.
Failure Count Threshold
Crawler ignores failure URLs of which failure count is over this threshold.
Logging
Search Logging
Enable logging for user’s searches.
User Logging
Enable logging for users.
Favorite Logging
Enable logging for favorite requests.
Purge Search Log Before
Days which old search logs are removed. To disable log purge, set to -1.
Purge Job Log Before
Days which old job logs are removed. To disable log purge, set to -1.
Purge User Before
Days which old user logs are removed. To disable log purge, set to -1.
Bots Name For Purge
Bots names to remove search logs.
Log Level
Log Level in fess.log.
Suggest
Suggest from Search Words
Enable to generate suggested words from search logs.
Suggest from Documents
Enable to generate suggested words from indexed documents.
Purge Suggest Documents Before
Days which old suggested words are removed.
LDAP
LDAP URL
URL of LDAP server.
Base DN
Base DN of LDAP environment.
Bind DN
Bind DN of LDAP environment.
Password
Password for Bind DN.
User DN
User definition pattern for user login.
Account Filter
LDAP query to filter user accounts.
Group Filter
Specify the filter condition for the group.
memberOf Attribute
memberOf Attribute name. memberOf if LDAP server is Active Directory. Some other LDAP server is isMemberOf.
Notification
Login page
Contents displayed on login page.
Search top page
Contents displayed on search top page.
Example
LDAP Configuration
| Name | Value (LDAP) | Value (Active Directory) |
|---|---|---|
| LDAP URL | ldap://SERVERNAME:389 | ldap://SERVERNAME:389 |
| Base DN | cn=Directory Manager | dc=fess,dc=codelibs,dc=org |
| Bind DN | uid=%s,ou=People,dc=fess,dc=codelibs,dc=org | manager@fess.codelibs.org |
| User DN | uid=%s,ou=People,dc=fess,dc=codelibs,dc=org | %s@fess.codelibs.org |
| Account Filter | cn=%s or uid=%s | (&(objectClass=user)(sAMAccountName=%s)) |
| Group Filter | (member:1.2.840.113556.1.4.1941:=%s) | |
| memberOf | isMemberOf | memberOf |