Tutorials – Learning Composr

How to integrate Composr into a corporate network via LDAP (OpenLDAP, or Microsoft Active Directory).

In this first Composr tutorial of mine I give a brief overview of Composr.

Explanation of how to configure ModSecurity for Composr.

Advanced permission management within Composr, for power-users.

One thing every website has to contend with eventually will be stopping spammers from making your user's life a misery. This tutorial goes over some features within Composr.

The inbuilt security of Composr is one of its strongest features. This ranges from many inbuilt features to the close integration of features using the same very high coding standards.

We give an example of showing different content to different usergroups.

A detailed explanation of how you can configure permissions, how to test them, and how to manage them.

If you find a hacker, you may want to try and trace them back to a real world source. We introduce you to your toolkit.

How to switch users under your admin login, and how to customise page contents based on usergroup membership.

Tools and techniques for preventing spam in Composr.

This tutorial covers some regular and irregular maintenance tasks you'll want to perform.

Little tricks: changing their permissions via usergroups, mandating prior post approval, and how to ban them.

It's quite common for community sites to have a hidden member's area of the site where you can post private updates or information relating to things you don't want guests to see.

Sometimes, for integration reasons, you want users to login in to Composr via HTTP authentication. We show you how.

When you are creating a new usergroup you will usually want to customise the permissions for all of the members within. This tutorial explains how privileges work.

Details and guidance on the advanced security protections available in Composr.