Configuration file

The values described here can be put in your config.php file as $config['varname']='value'; The file can be located in:

1. /etc/groupoffice/config.php
2. /etc/groupoffice/<APACHE SERVER_NAME>/config.php
3. The Group-Office directory or any of it's parent directories.

Config file settings lists

General settings list

Name	Default	Description
enabled	true	Enable the Group-Office installation
id	"groupoffice"	Group-Office server ID
default_theme	"Default"	Default theme.
defaultView	"Extjs3"	Default view, Model-View-Controller-wise.
allowed_modules	""	Comma separated list of allowed modules. Leave empty to allow all modules.
html_editor_font	"font-size:13px; font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"	The font used in all HTML editor including the E-mail editor.
full_url	""	Full URL to reach Group-Office with slash on end. This value is determined automatically if not set in config.php.
orig_full_url	""	Full original URL to reach Group-Office with slash on end.
host	"/groupoffice/"	Relative hostname with slash on both start and end.
title	""	Title of Group-Office
webmaster_email	"webmaster@example.com"	The email address of the webmaster.
root_path	""	The path to the root of Group-Office with slash on end.
tmpdir	"/tmp/"	The path to store temporary files with slash on end. Leave to ../ for installation.
quota	"0"	The maximum number KB this Group-Office installation may use. 0 will allow unlimited usage of disk space.
date_formats	array('dmY','mdY','Ymd');	Date formats to be used. Only Y, m and d are supported.
date_separators	array('-','.','/');	Date separators to be used.
time_formats	array('G:i','g:i a');	Time formats to be used.
module_path	"modules"	Relative path to the modules directory with no slash at start and end.
configuration_url	"configuration"	Relative URL to the administrator directory with no slash at start and end.
help_link	"http://wiki4.group-office.com/wiki/"	The link in menu help -> contents.
class_path	"classes"	Relative path to the classes directory with no slash at start and end.
control_path	"controls"	Relative path to the controls directory with no slash at start and end.
theme_path	"themes"	Relative path to the themes directory with no slash at start and end.
theme_url	"themes"	Relative URL to the themes directory with no slash at start and end.
language_path	"language"	Relative path to the language directory with no slash at start and end.
orig_tmpdir	""	Original tmpdir. The user_id is appended (/tmp/1/) to the normal tmpdir. In some cases you don't want that.
zlib_compress	true	Enable zlib compression for faster downloading of scripts and css
product_name	"Group-Office"	The product name.
product_name	"Group-Office"	The product name.
nav_page_size	"50"	The number of items displayed in the navigation panels (Calendars, addressbooks etc.) Don't set this number too high because it may slow the browser and server down.
curl_proxy	""	If you are behind a proxy you can set it here for all CURL operations Group-Office performs.
default_max_rows_list	"30"	The default maximum size of lists.

Password settings list

Name	Default	Description
password_validate	true	Enable password validation
password_min_length	"6"	Minimum required password length
password_require_uc	true	Require an uppercase characters
password_require_lc	true	Require a lowercase characters
password_require_num	true	Require a number
password_require_sc	true	Require a special char
password_require_uniq	"3"	Required number of unique characters
default_password_length	"6"	Length of the password generated when a user uses the lost password option.
disable_security_token_check	false	Disable security check for cross domain forgeries.
force_ssl	false	Force an HTTPS connection in the main /index.php
session_inactivity_timeout	"0"	Automatically log a user out after n seconds of inactivity.

Localization settings list

Name	Default	Description
language	"en"	Default language
default_country	"NL"	Default country
default_vat	"21"	Default VAT percentage
default_timezone	"Europe/Amsterdam"	Default timezone
default_currency	"€"	Default currency
default_date_format	"dmY"	Default date format
default_date_separator	"-"	Default date separator
default_time_format	"G:i"	Default time format
default_sort_name	"last_name"	Default name formatting and sorting. Can be last_name or first_name.
default_first_weekday	"1"	Default first day of the week: 0=sunday 1=monday.
default_decimal_separator	","	Default decimal separator for numbers.
default_thousands_separator	'.'	Default thousands separator for numbers.

User settings list

Name	Default	Description
allow_themes	true	Enable theme switching by users
allow_password_change	true	Enable password changing by users
allow_profile_edit	true	Enable profile editing by every user through the settings dialog
allow_registration	false	Enable user registration by everyone
allow_duplicate_email	false	Allows email addresses to occur more than once over the user profiles
register_modules_read	""	Grant read permissions for these modules to new self-registered users. Module names are separated by a comma.
register_modules_write	""	Grant write (i.e., management) permissions for these modules to new self-registered users. Module names are separated by a comma.
register_user_groups	""	Add self-registered users to these user groups. Group names are separated by a comma.
register_visible_user_groups	"Everyone"	Add self-registered users will be visible to these user groups. Group names are separated by a comma.
max_users	0	The maximum number of users.
limit_usersearch	0	If set, user queries will only return this maximum number of users. Useful in large environments where you don't want users to scroll through all.

User group settings list

Name	Default	Description
group_root	"1"	The "Administrators" user group ID
group_everyone	"2"	The "Everyone" user group ID
group_internal	"3"	The "Internal" user group ID

Debugging and logging settings list

Name	Default	Description
debug	false	Run Group-Office in debug mode.
debug_display_errors	true	Output errors in debug mode.
debug_log	false	Just enable the debug log. See debug.log in your Group-Office log folder.
debug_log_remote_ip	""	Only log debug messages for this remote IP address.
log_max_days	14	Set the number of days the database log will contain until it will be dumped to a CSV file on disk. The log module must be installed.
firephp	false	Enable FirePhp
info_log	""	Info log location. If empty it will be in <file_storage_path>/log/info.log
log	false	Enable syslog

Database settings list

Name	Default	Description
db_type	mysql	The database type to use. Currently only MySQL is supported.
db_host	""	The host of the database
db_name	""	The name of the database
db_user	""	The username to connect to the database
db_pass	""	The password to connect to the database
db_port	"3306"	Specifies the port number to attempt to connect to the MySQL server.
db_socket	""	Specifies the socket or named pipe that should be used.
db_auto_increment_increment	1	Useful in clustering mode. Set to the number of clustered nodes.
db_auto_increment_offset	1	Give each node an incremented number.

File browser settings list

Name	Default	Description
file_storage_path	"/home/groupoffice"	The path to the location where the files of the file browser module are stored. This path should NEVER be inside the document root of the webserver. This directory should be writable by apache. Furthermore, choose a partition that has enough diskspace.
gota_blacklist_extensions	array('log','pdf','zip','tar','gz')	List of extensions that should not be edited with GOTA by default.
convert_utf8_filenames_to_ascii	false	Convert non ASCII characters to ASCII codes when uploaded to Group-Office. Useful for Windows servers that don't support UTF8.
max_file_size	10000000	The maximum file size that the file browser may upload. Note that the php.ini file must be set accordingly (http://www.php.net).
max_file_versions	3	Maximum number of old file versions to keep. -1 will disable versioning. 0 will keep an infinite number of versions (Be careful!).

Email settings list

Name	Default	Description
smtp_server	"localhost"	The SMTP host to use
smtp_port	"25"	The SMTP port to use
smtp_username	""	The SMTP username for authentication (empty for no authentication)
smtp_password	""	The SMTP password for authentication
smtp_encryption	""	Leave blank or set to "tls" or "ssl"
smtp_local_domain	""	The Swift mailer component auto detects the domain you are connecting from. In some cases it fails and uses an invalid IPv6 IP like ::1. You can override it here.
swift_qp_dot_escape	false	A special Swift preference to escape dots. For some buggy SMTP servers this is necessary.
email_disable_aliases	false	Set to true to prevent users from changing their e-mail aliases in the email module.
disable_imap_capabilities	""	We stumbled upon a dovecot server that crashed when sending a command using LIST-EXTENDED. With this option we can workaround that issue.
restrict_smtp_hosts	""	A comma separated list of smtp server IP addresses that you want to restrict. E.g. "213.207.103.219:10,127.0.0.1:10"; will restrict those IP's to 10 e-mails per day.
max_attachment_size	"10000000"	The maximum size of e-mail attachments the browser attempts to upload. Note that the php.ini file must be set accordingly (http://www.php.net).

Group-Office system SMTP settings list

Name	Default	Description
smtp_account_id	false	Enable sending system emails with an email account from the email module. Needs to be the id of the wanted mail account.
smtp_account_smime_sign	false	Enable Smime for outgoing system emails. Note: this only works when a mailaccount is used to send the system emails (Please see: $smtp_account_id)
smtp_account_smime_password	""	The password that is needed to sign the Smime certificate for outgoing system emails. Note: this is only needed when a mailaccount is used to send the system emails (Please see: smtp_account_id) and when smtp_account_smime_sign is set to true
password_require_num	true	Require a number
password_require_sc	true	Require a special char
password_require_uniq	3	Required number of unique characters

Settings not set by the installer

Name	Default	Description
version	e.g., "4.1.28"	The Group-Office version number
file_create_mode	"0644"	The permissions mode to use when creating files
folder_create_mode	"0755"	The permissions mode to use when creating folders
file_change_group	""	Sets Group-Office files to this file system group.
mtime	e.g., "20130131"	Modification date
mtime	e.g., "20130131"	Modification date

External program settings list

Name	Default	Description
cmd_zip	"/usr/bin/zip"	Command to create ZIP archive.
cmd_unzip	"/usr/bin/unzip"	Command to unpack ZIP archive.
cmd_tar	"/bin/tar"	Command to control TAR archives.
cmd_sudo	"/usr/bin/sudo"	Command to set system passwords. Used by passwd.users.class.inc. SUDO must be set up!
cmd_chpasswd	"/usr/sbin/chpasswd"	Command to SUDO.
cmd_xml2wbxml	"/usr/bin/xml2wbxml"	Command to convert xml to wbxml.
cmd_wbxml2xml	"/usr/bin/wbxml2xml"	Command to convert wbxml to bxml.
cmd_tnef	"/usr/bin/tnef"	Command to unpack winmail.dat files.
cmd_php	"php"	Command to execute the php command line interface.
callto_template	"callto:{phone}"	Template of "Callto: link".
disable_flash_upload	false	Don't use flash to upload. In some cases it doesn't work like when using a self-signed certificate.