Appendix A. Frequently Asked Questions

Appendix A. Frequently Asked Questions
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1. My system does not have an MTA. How do I validate accounts if my system cannot send/receive e-mail?
2. My system account does not have access to various site and admin features.
3. How do I set up username.example.tld subdomains?
4. Where do the ToS “include” files go?
5. How do I add new public moodthemes?
6. Some of my S1 styles say LiveJournal instead of $LJ::SITENAMESHORT?

1.	My system does not have an MTA. How do I validate accounts if my system cannot send/receive e-mail?
	Set `$LJ::EVERYONE_VALID` to 1, and all future accounts will be validated. To validate all existing accounts run the following SQL statement: UPDATE user SET status='A';
2.	My `system` account does not have access to various site and admin features.
	Your `system` account does not start life with full access to everything. It is not like “`root`” in `Unix`. It only starts with the ability to give any other user any rights, including itself. So, you need to use `system` to give another account (or `system` itself) access to do something, such as giving the account a priv like `change_journal_type`.
3.	How do I set up username.example.tld subdomains?
	First make sure you have set the $LJ::USER_VHOSTS variable and given users the “userdomain” cap. You need to set a “catch all” entry in your DNS zone file. For example, if using BIND: *.example.com IN A 192.170.2.1
4.	Where do the ToS “include” files go?
	Your `tos.bml` and `tos-mini.bml` (iframe version for use on `create.bml`) belong in a directory named `htdocs/legal`.
5.	How do I add new public moodthemes?
	Set up the moods the way you want them in the `bin/upgrading/moods.dat` file. Follow the format already used in that file when you add your new moods. Then, load them into the DB, by running the update-db script with the `-p` option, which'll upload the new moods.
6.	Some of my S1 styles say LiveJournal instead of `$LJ::SITENAMESHORT`?
	Open `bin/upgrading/s1styles.dat` in a text editor and search/replace all occurrences of LiveJournal with YourSite and livejournal with yoursite. Save a copy of the updated file into your “local” (`cvs/local/bin/upgrading/`) directory . Then, just repopulate into your DB (update-db.pl `-p -r -fb` to force-rebuild the S1 styles from the updated `s1styles.dat`).

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