Site Management Overview

Site Management Overview

As WebBoard administrator, you must make several site-wide decisions. You take responsibility for configuring WebBoard’s web server to work alone or with an external server as a gateway, and may decide to distribute WebBoard across multiple computers. Here you learn more about your choices and how to set up WebBoard to implement them, using WebBoard's browser-based administration and WebBoard Properties.

Another topic is working with WebBoard’s various logs and its real-time statistics generator to know what is happening on your WebBoard site. You’ll also learn how to reset WebBoard’s requests counter, remove inactive users, set the number of topics to display under a conference, change the order in which topics appear in a conference, and exclude Internet search robots from your site. You can also create more WebBoard administrator accounts to help you with site administration.

Here also is how to convert WebBoard’s built-in MSDE database to SQL Server 7.0. The MSDE database with its two gigabyte limit is sufficient for most WebBoard sites, but you may have reasons other than size for wanting to use SQL server. For example, you may want to keep the WebBoard database as part of your SQL Server system on another computer. After you make the change, you can use WebBoard tools to check your new database connection and make sure everything is working properly.

And finally, backing up your data and configuration settings is always important, but you may not want to perform a full backup every day. The last section details the essential files to backup.