How to login as SuperAdmin

If you have installed Talkyard on-premise, you can log in as superadmin, which is good to be able to do, because a few settings are editable by superadmins only.

To log in as superadmin:

Edit /opt/talkyard/conf/play-framework.conf; add these config value: (self-hosted sites have id 1)

talkyard.superAdmin.siteId="1"
talkyard.superAdmin.emailAddresses="your-email@example.com, maybe-someone-else@example.com"

Then resart the app server:

cd /opt/talkyard
docker-composer restart app

Thereafter, go here: https:// your on-premise talkyard site /-/superadmin/

and, as of April 2022, you'll see a feature flags field, and two disk size fields, and three rate limit fields — because now you're superadmin (assuming your admin user email is your-email@example.com),

The superadmin interface is not that good looking (since barely anyone uses it).

But what are the different fields?:

• db is the database disk limit, in MiB (for everything except for uploads. Incl pages and comments)
• fs is the file system disk limit, in MiB (for uploaded files, e.g. images)
• Rd is the read limits multiplier: for this site, the default read rate limits, are multiplied by this number. Read limits are currently only the search engine I think.
• Lg is a log limits multiplier (log messages are rate limited as well, although not that implemented).
• Cr is create-things limit, e.g. new pages and comments, and the max number of categories is = the default limit, times this number.

The one line text field in the Status column, is for feature flags, e.g.: ffFlagOne ffSomeOther — for that site. There's also, in the play-framework.conf file, a talkyard.featureFlags="..." for the whole server (all sites).

The textarea in the Address, Admins, etc column is just for saving notes about the site — it doesn't have any effects.