Adapting Default Settings

Some of the WB default settings can only be changed directly after the installation process, hence before any page was created. Changing those settings later on, will have no effect on pages already created, which makes them useless.

The following settings should if at all be changed prior to adding new pages:

• Charset of the database: Unicode (utf-8)
• Default page folder: /pages/
• Default media folder: /media/
• Default page extensions: .php (don´t change)
  

Website Baker version prior to v2.6.6 have to use the charset which contains all language specific characters. For Germany, use Latin-1 Western European (iso-8859-1). From Website Baker version 2.6.6 onwards, the default database charset should be set to: Unicode (utf-8).

For cosmetic reasons or for search engine optimisation, one can change the default folders for /pages and /media which are displayed as part of the URL in the browser.

http://domain.com/pages/... --> http://domain.com/seiten/...
http://domain.com/media/... --> http://domain.com/medien/...

The page extension should only be changed if your server provider requires this setting. If this is not the case, it is highly recommended to keep the default page extension .php. Some of the Add-Ons available from the Add-Ons Repository do not consider the file extension set via the WB backend but use .php as default.

All settings can be changed via the Website Baker backend: Settings -> Show Advanced Options.

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