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Version 17.1 by Thomas Mortagne on 2008/07/10

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1 1 Configuration
2
3 One you have XWiki [installed>Installation] you'll want to configure it. Configuration can be done in 2 ways:
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5 * by stopping the XWiki instance and editing the ~~xwiki/WEB-INF/xwiki.cfg~~ file, and then restarting XWiki
6 * by logging in as a user with admin rights and going to the Administration page (when using the XWiki 1.0 skin, there's a an "Administration" link in the top right corner of the screen - You can also go directly to ~~http://localhost:8080/xwiki/bin/admin/XWiki/XWikiPreferences~~). This allows to keep the Server running while making the changes.
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8 Note that some configurations are only accessible from the ~~xwiki.cfg~~ file and have no equivalent on the Administration page.
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10 There are various things you can configure:
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12 #toc("" "" "")
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14 1.1 Enable superadmin account
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16 Edit the <tt>xwiki.cfg</tt> file and enable the <tt>xwiki.superadminpassword</tt> property. For example:
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18 {code:none}
19 # Enable to allow superadmin. It is disabled by default as this could be a security breach if
20 # it were set and you forgot about it.
21 xwiki.superadminpassword=system
22 {code}
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24 When logging in, the username will be "superadmin" and the password will be the one you set in the <tt>xwiki.superadminpassword</tt> property.
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26 1.1 Language settings
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28 To define the default language for your wiki go to the Administration page and in the Preferences tag locate the "Default Language" field and enter the language code for the language you wish to use. For example: "en" for English, "fr" for French, "de" for German, etc.
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30 In addition you can configure you wiki to be multilingual. See the [I18 user page>Features.I18N] for more information.
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32 1.1 Wiki Access Configuration
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34 The first thing you will want to do is configure a policy access for your wiki. Depending on what you intend to use your wiki for, you have several options:
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36 * [Open Wiki>#HOpenWiki]: anyone can edit pages (including non registered users)
37 * [Public Wiki>#HPublicWiki]: only registered users can edit pages but registration is open to anyone. This is the default configuration of the default wiki (the wiki provided as a XAR on the [download page>xwiki:Main.Download]).
38 * [Private Wiki with password>#HPrivateWikiwithpassword]: registration is closed
39 * [Private Wiki with token for registering>#HPrivateWikiwithtoken]: registration is closed but users knowing the token can register
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41 1.1.1 Open Wiki
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43 TODO
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45 1.1.1 Public Wiki
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47 TODO
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49 1.1.1 Private Wiki with password
50 1.1.1.1 Global rights
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52 In [Global rights>http://localhost:8080/xwiki/bin/admin/XWiki/XWikiPreferences?editor=globalrights&global=1] set *User:XWikiGuest, Groups:, Level:register, Allow-Deny:Allow*.
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54 1.1.1.1 Registration
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56 In [Preferences>http://localhost:8080/xwiki/bin/admin/XWiki/XWikiPreferences] under *Registration* set *Use email verification:yes*. fill the other fields appropriately.
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58 1.1.1 Private Wiki with token
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60 TODO
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63 1.1 Enabling/Disabling Statistics
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65 To disable [the Statistics feature>code:Applications.StatisticsApplication], edit your ~~xwiki.cfg~~ file and replace the following properties as shown here:
66 {code:xml}
67 xwiki.stats=0
68 xwiki.stats.default=0
69 {code}
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71 where:
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73 * ~~xwiki.stats~~ controls whether Statistics are on or off
74 * ~~xwiki.stats.default~~ controls whether Statistics are on or off by default for the current Wiki. This is useful in [Virtual Wiki mode>AdminGuide.Virtualization]. A wiki can decide whether Statistics is on/off by setting the "statistics" field in XWiki.XWikiPreferences. If no such field is defined the the default value ~~xwiki.stats.default~~ is used.
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76 To enable Statistics, change "0" to "1".
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78 1.1 Optional Store Features
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80 XWiki stores all document attachment versions by default. This is very memory consuming (both RAM and HDD).
81 If you need only latest versions of attachments, you can disable attachment version control by editing your ~~xwiki.cfg~~ and adding:
82 {code:xml}
83 xwiki.store.attachment.versioning=0
84 {code}
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86
87 1.1 Customizing the Skin
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89 See the [Skin Guide>AdminGuide.Skins].
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91 1.1 Security configuration
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93 See the [Security Guide>AdminGuide.Security].
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95 1.1 Customizing Menus
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97 The first thing to understand is that menus depend on the skin you're using. If you're using the 1.0 skin it's likely you're using the [Panels Application>code:Applications.PanelsApplication] to provide the different menu panels you see on the left or right of your wikis. Check the [Panels Application>code:Applications.PanelsApplication] to know more on how to configure/modify them.
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99 1.1 Encoding
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101 See the [Encoding Guide>AdminGuide.Encoding].
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103 1.1 User Authentication
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105 See the [Authentication Guide>AdminGuide.Authentication].
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107 1.1 Customizing the registration page
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109 The default registration page is defined as a template on the file system (named <tt>registerinline.vm</tt>). However it's possible to easily override it by creating a page named <tt>XWiki.Registration</tt>.
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111 1.1 Logging
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113 See the [Logging page>Logging].
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115 1.1 Configuring Interwiki links
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117 [Interwiki linking>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/InterWiki] is a short hand syntax for linking to pages on other websites. For example, you could link to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/InterWiki just by typing \[InterWiki@WikiPedia\].
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119 Since XWiki renders wiki syntax using the [Radeox>http://radeox.org] engine, it supports Interwiki links in [much the same way as SnipSnap>http://snipsnap.org/space/InterWiki+HowTo].
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121 To configure Interwiki links on your wiki:
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123 * Create a file named <tt>\[location from where you start your container\]/conf/*intermap.txt*</tt>
124 * Fill <tt>intermap.txt</tt> with content like:
125 {code}
126 IMDB http://us.imdb.com/Title?
127 OpenWiki http://openwiki.com/?
128 SourceForge http://sourceforge.net/
129 TWiki http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/
130 Why http://clublet.com/c/c/why?
131 Wiki http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?
132 WikiPedia http://www.wikipedia.com/wiki/
133 {code}
134
135 You can of course add your own entries.
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137 * Note that Radeox's parser for intermap.txt is [very fragile>http://snipforge.org/jira/browse/RADEOX-49]. A blank line at the bottom of the file is enough to make it fall over.
138 * Restart XWiki (you'll need to restart XWiki every time you change <tt>intermap.txt</tt>) and try out an Interwiki link.
139 * If it does not work, check your <tt>xwiki.log</tt> file. You'll see if <tt>conf/intermap.txt</tt> could not be found, or if there was an error parsing it.
140
141 1.1 Setting the default editor to use (Wiki or WYSIWYG)
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143 Go the Administration screen, then click on the "Editing" accordion and select the default editor to use, as shown on the following screenshot:
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145 {image:defaulteditor.png}
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147 1.1 Short URLs
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149 It's possible to [configure XWiki so that is uses shorter URLs>Main.ShortURLs].
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151 1.1 Configure the names of database schemas (since 1.6M1).
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153 Sometimes, especially in enterprise environment, we need control names of database schemes, other than default.
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155 * xwiki.db -- name of database scheme of main wiki.
156 * xwiki.db.prefix -- usefull mainly for [virtual wikies>Virtualization], where we have database scheme for each virtual wiki. This prefix is added to database scheme name after usual mapping between wiki names and schemes.
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158 1.1 Turning off comments or attachments
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160 You need to change the XWiki.XWikiPreferences class like this:
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162 * Go to <tt>\<server\>/xwiki/bin/edit/XWiki/XWikiPreferences?editor=class</tt>
163 * Add a new property called <tt>showcomments</tt> (or <tt>showattachments</tt> for turning off attachments) of type String Class
164 * Go to <tt>\<server\>/xwiki/bin/edit/XWiki/XWikiPreferences?editor=object&classname=XWiki.XWikiPreferences</tt> and write no in the <tt>showcomments</tt> (or <tt>showattachments</tt>) field
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166 That's it, the comments (or attachments) are gone. If you want to re-enable them, replace the "no" value with "yes".
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168 1.1 Configure edit comment behavior
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170 When page editing you can add a comment of changes in special comment field by default (Look at [Features.PageEditing#HCommoneditactions]).
171 You can disable this feature by set ~~xwiki.editcomment=0~~ in ~~xwiki.cfg~~.
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173 When edit comment feature is enabled, you also can set edit comment mandatory by set ~~xwiki.editcomment.mandatory=1~~ in ~~xwiki.cfg~~. This will show popup window with the request to set edit comment if there is no comment entered. It doesn't allow to set empty comment.
174 If you want a popup, but want to be able to set empty edit comment, set ~~xwiki.editcomment.suggested=1~~ in ~~xwiki.cfg~~
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176 If you set edit comment as mandatory or suggested, you can also remove comment field from page editing form and use only popup window for set edit comment. Set ~~xwiki.editcomment.hidden=0~~ in ~~xwiki.cfg~~ to do this.
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178 You can use the special fields in ~~XWikiPreferences~~ object instead of edit ~~xwiki.cfg~~.
179 These fields are: ~~editcomment~~, ~~editcomment_mandatory~~, ~~editcomment_suggested~~ and ~~editcomment_hidden~~.
180
181 1.1 Configuring the SMTP server
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183 If you're planning to use XWiki's feature that send emails you'll need to configure the SMTP server used and the email address under which XWiki will send emails.
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185 To configure these go to the Administration page (<tt>http://\<server\>/xwiki/bin/admin/XWiki/XWikiPreferences</tt>) and modify the <tt>Admin email</tt> field to set the email under which XWiki emails will be sent and modify the <tt>Outgoing SMTP Server</tt> field to set the SMTP server to use, as shown on the figure below.
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187 {image:emailconfiguration.png}
188
189 #warning("Now xwiki can't configure password for SMTP user. Hence, you should use a SMTP server without password Authentication.")
190
191 1.1 Redirections
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193 XWiki supports defining redirections for incoming requests. To activate this feature modify your <tt>xwiki.cfg</tt> file and set the following property:
194 {code:none}
195 xwiki.preferences.redirect=1
196 {code}
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198 Then for each redirection you want to add, add a <tt>XWiki.GlobalRedirect</tt> object to your main wiki's <tt>XWiki.XWikiPreferences</tt> document. The <tt>XWiki.GlobalRedirect</tt> object has 2 fields: <tt>pattern</tt> and <tt>destination</tt>. The URL received is matched on <tt>pattern</tt> and if there's a match it's replaced with the value from <tt>destination</tt>. XWiki then redirects to the new URL.
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200 1.1 Customizing the PDF export Look & Feel
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202 TODO: Explain the pdftemplate parameter + the XWiki.PDFClass class.
203
204 1.1 Sample xwiki.cfg
205
206 {code}
207 xwiki.version=1.1-SNAPSHOT
208 xwiki.base=../../
209 xwiki.store.class=com.xpn.xwiki.store.XWikiHibernateStore
210 xwiki.store.hibernate.path=/WEB-INF/hibernate.cfg.xml
211 xwiki.store.hibernate.updateschema=1
212 xwiki.store.hibernate.custommapping=1
213
214 \#\# Jcr Store configuration
215 \#xwiki.store.class=com.xpn.xwiki.store.jcr.XWikiJcrStore
216 \#xwiki.store.attachment.class=com.xpn.xwiki.store.jcr.XWikiJcrAttachmentStore
217 \#xwiki.store.versioning.class=com.xpn.xwiki.store.jcr.XWikiJcrPropertyVersioningStore
218 \#xwiki.store.jcr.mapping=WEB-INF/classes/jcrmapping.xml
219 \#xwiki.store.jcr.provider=com.xpn.xwiki.store.jcr.JackRabbitJCRProvider
220 \#xwiki.store.jcr.jackrabbit.repository.config=WEB-INF/classes/jackrabbit/repository.xml
221 \#xwiki.store.jcr.jackrabbit.repository.path=jackrabbitrepo
222 \#xwiki.store.jcr.jackrabbit.nodetypes.config=WEB-INF/classes/jackrabbit/nodetypes.cnd
223
224 xwiki.store.cache=1
225 xwiki.store.cache.capacity=100
226 xwiki.monitor=1
227
228 \# List of active plugins.
229 xwiki.plugins=com.xpn.xwiki.monitor.api.MonitorPlugin,\\
230 com.xpn.xwiki.plugin.calendar.CalendarPlugin,\\
231 com.xpn.xwiki.plugin.feed.FeedPlugin,\\
232 com.xpn.xwiki.plugin.ldap.LDAPPlugin,\\
233 com.xpn.xwiki.plugin.google.GooglePlugin,\\
234 com.xpn.xwiki.plugin.flickr.FlickrPlugin,\\
235 com.xpn.xwiki.plugin.mail.MailPlugin,\\
236 com.xpn.xwiki.plugin.packaging.PackagePlugin,\\
237 com.xpn.xwiki.plugin.query.QueryPlugin,\\
238 com.xpn.xwiki.plugin.svg.SVGPlugin,\\
239 com.xpn.xwiki.plugin.charts.ChartingPlugin,\\
240 com.xpn.xwiki.plugin.fileupload.FileUploadPlugin,\\
241 com.xpn.xwiki.plugin.image.ImagePlugin,\\
242 com.xpn.xwiki.plugin.captcha.CaptchaPlugin,\\
243 com.xpn.xwiki.plugin.userdirectory.UserDirectoryPlugin,\\
244 com.xpn.xwiki.plugin.usertools.XWikiUserManagementToolsImpl,\\
245 com.xpn.xwiki.plugin.zipexplorer.ZipExplorerPlugin,\\
246 com.xpn.xwiki.plugin.autotag.AutoTagPlugin
247
248 \# This parameter allows XWiki to operate in Hosting mode
249 \# allowing to create multiple wikis having their own database
250 \# and responding to different URLs
251 xwiki.virtual=0
252 xwiki.virtual.redirect=http://127.0.0.1:9080/xwiki/bin/Main/ThisWikiDoesNotExist
253
254 \# This parameter will activate the exo integration
255 xwiki.exo=0
256
257 xwiki.authentication=form
258 xwiki.authentication.validationKey=totototototototototototototototo
259 xwiki.authentication.encryptionKey=titititititititititititititititi
260 xwiki.authentication.cookiedomains=xwiki.com,wiki.fr
261 \# Comment if you want to enable logout only for /bin/logout/XWiki/XWikiLogout
262 xwiki.authentication.logoutpage=/[^/]+/logout/*
263
264 \# Stats configuration allows to globally activate/deactivate stats module
265 \# it is also possible to choose a different stats service to record
266 \# statistics separately from XWiki.
267 \# Note: Statistics are disabled by default for improved performances.
268 xwiki.stats=0
269 xwiki.stats.default=1
270 xwiki.stats.class=com.xpn.xwiki.stats.impl.XWikiStatsServiceImpl
271
272 xwiki.encoding=ISO-8859-1
273 xwiki.render.macromapping=1
274 xwiki.backlinks=1
275 xwiki.tags=1
276
277 \#\# Use edit comments
278 xwiki.editcomment=1
279 \#\# Hide editcomment field and only use JS
280 xwiki.editcomment.hidden=0
281 \#\# Make edit comment mandatory
282 xwiki.editcomment.mandatory=0
283 \#\# Make edit comment suggested (asks 1 time if the comment is empty. 1 shows one popup if comment
284 \#\# is empty. 0 means there is no popup. This setting is ignored is mandatory is set)
285 xwiki.editcomment.suggested=0
286
287 \# GraphViz plugin configuration. The GraphViz plugin is not configured by default.
288 \# To enable it, add "com.xpn.xwiki.plugin.graphviz.GraphVizPlugin" to the list of plugins
289 \# in the xwiki.plugins property.
290 \# Uncomment and set the locations of the Dot and Neato executables
291 \#xwiki.plugin.graphviz.dotpath=c:/Program Files/ATT/GraphViz/bin/dot.exe
292 \#xwiki.plugin.graphviz.neatopath=c:/Program Files/ATT/GraphViz/bin/neato.exe
293
294 xwiki.plugin.laszlo.baseurl=/openlaszlo/xwiki/
295 xwiki.plugin.laszlo.path=c:/Program Files/Apache Software Foundation/Tomcat 5.0/webapps/openlaszlo/xwiki/
296
297 xwiki.plugin.image.cache.capacity=30
298
299 xwiki.plugin.captcha=1
300
301 \#\# Personal config
302
303 \# Enable to allow superadmin. It is disabled by default as this could be a security breach if
304 \# it were set and you forgot about it.
305 \#xwiki.superadminpassword=system
306
307 xwiki.authentication.ldap=0
308 xwiki.authentication.ldap.server=172.29.116.202
309 xwiki.authentication.ldap.check_level=1
310 xwiki.authentication.ldap.port=389
311 xwiki.authentication.ldap.base_DN=dc=necf,dc=fr
312 xwiki.authentication.ldap.bind_DN=cn={0},cn=Users,dc=necf,dc=fr
313 xwiki.authentication.ldap.bind_pass={1}
314 xwiki.authentication.ldap.UID_attr=sAMAccountName
315 xwiki.authentication.ldap.fields_mapping=name=sAMAccountName,last_name=sn,first_name=givenName,fullname=displayName,email=mail,ldap_dn=dn
316
317 xwiki.authentication.unauthorized_code=200
318
319 \# This parameter will activate the sectional editing
320 xwiki.section.edit=1
321
322 \# Uncomment if you want to ignore requests for unmapped actions, and simply display the document
323 \# xwiki.unknownActionResponse=view
324
325 \#\# WYSIWYG Editor configuration
326
327 \# You can configure the toolbars you wish to see in the WYSIWYG editor by defining the
328 \# xwiki.wysiwyg.toolbars property.
329 \# When not defined it defaults to:
330 \# xwiki.wysiwyg.toolbars=texttoolbar, listtoolbar, indenttoolbar, undotoolbar, titletoolbar, \
331 \# styletoolbar, horizontaltoolbar, attachmenttoolbar, macrostoolbar, \
332 \# tabletoolbar, tablerowtoolbar, tablecoltoolbar, linktoolbar
333 \# The full list of toolbars includes the one defined above and the following ones:
334 \# subtoolbar, findtoolbar, symboltoolbar
335
336 \#\# Skin configuration
337
338 xwiki.defaultskin=albatross
339 xwiki.defaultbaseskin=albatross
340
341 {code}

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