$Id$ $HeadURL$ This file provides comments and documentation to the file "explain.json". There are values in explain.json that you need to specify for the operation of your "explain" server. Why this file? Because JSON does not support comments, the specification for JSON format specifically excludes comments, JSON files may only to contain data. See http://stackoverflow.com/questions/244777/can-i-comment-a-json-file title => This is not used, as far as I recall. secret => This is used to encrypt cookie with username/password. So it should be long, random string. database.dsn => the standard connection information A) database name (case sensitive), B) server or host C) port - standard port for postgresql is 5432 database.username => you created this when you set up a role in postgresql for this explain server database.password => the password for database.username (optional) mail_sender.from => From to be used by mails sent by contact form mail_sender.to => Address which should receive mails sent by contact form mail_sender.subject => Subject for mails from contact form hypnotoad.pid_file => /var/run is the standard place to store your pid files; if you do not have access to /var/run, then create in your home directory a branch var/run and place it there. Example ~/var/run/explain.pid. Make sure you create the directories, ~/var/run, before specifying this alternate location.