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-#   Copyright (c) 2011, Diaspora Inc.  This file is
-#   licensed under the Affero General Public License version 3 or later.  See
-#   the COPYRIGHT file.
-
-defaults: &defaults
-
-  # Hostname of the machine you're running Diaspora on, as seen from the internet.
-  # For development and testing, you can leave this as is.
-  pod_url: "http://localhost:3000"
-
-  # Set this to true to prevent people from signing up for your pod without an invitation.
-  registrations_closed: false
-
-  # Set this to true to prevent users from sending invitations.
-  invites_off: false
-
-  #
-  # Logging setup
-  #
-
-  # Enable extensive logging to log/{development,test,production}.log
-  debug: false
-
-  # If you want normal Rails logs, set this to false in the appropriate environment.
-  # It is false by default in development and test.
-  enable_splunk_logging: true
-
-  #
-  # Websocket server setup - see script/websocket_server.rb
-  #
-
-  # Enable extensive logging to websocket server.
-  socket_debug : false
-
-  # Websocket host - leave as 0.0.0.0 unless you know what you are doing
-  socket_host: 0.0.0.0
-
-  # File containing pid of running script/websocket_server.rb
-  socket_pidfile: "log/diaspora-wsd.pid"
-
-  # Websocket port - should normally be 8080 or 8081.
-  socket_port: 8090
-  socket_collection_name: 'websocket'
-
-  # Secure websocket confguration (wss://).
-  # Requires SSL cert and key
-  socket_secure: false
-  socket_cert_chain_location: '/full/path/to/cert_chain.crt'
-  socket_private_key_location: '/full/path/to/file.key'
-
-  #
-  # Federation setup
-  #
-
-  # Diaspora is only tested against this default pubsub server. You probably don't want to change this.
-  pubsub_server: 'https://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'
-
-  #
-  # Email setup
-  #
-
-  # Setting this to true enables Diaspora's "send email" functionality,
-  # requiring meaningful smtp_* settings. These are options for RoR's
-  # ActionMailer class.
-  mailer_on: false
-
-  # This chooses which mailer should be used. 'smtp' for a smtp
-  # connection or 'sendmail' to use the sendmail binary.
-  mailer_method: 'smtp'
-
-  # Address/port to smtp server handling outgoing mail.
-  smtp_address: 'smtp.example.com'
-  smtp_port: '587'
-
-  # Domain of smtp server.
-  smtp_domain: 'example.com'
-
-  # Sender address in Diaspora's outgoing mail.
-  smtp_sender_address: 'no-reply@joindiaspora.com'
-
-  # Authentication required to send mail. Use one of 'one', 'plain',
-  # 'login' or 'cram-md5'. Use 'none' if server does not support
-  # authentication
-  smtp_authentication: 'plain'
-
-  # Automatically enable TLS? Ignored if smtp_authentication is set to none
-  smtp_starttls_auto: true
-
-  # Credentials to log in to the SMTP server - may be necessary if
-  # smtp_authentication is not 'none'
-  smtp_username: 'smtp_username'
-  smtp_password: 'secret'
-
-  # The path to the sendmail binary.
-  sendmail_location: '/usr/sbin/sendmail'
-
-  #
-  # Web tracking setup
-  #
-
-  # google analytics key - if false, no javascript included
-  google_a_site: false
-
-  # piwik integration - if not set, no javascript included
-  piwik_id:
-  # the site url in raw format (e.g. pikwik.examplehost.com)
-  piwik_url:
-
-  #
-  # Miscellaneous setup
-  #
-
-  # cloudfiles username and api-key - used for backups
-  cloudfiles_username: 'example'
-  cloudfiles_api_key:  'abc123'
-
-  # List of users who have admin privileges
-  admins:
-    - 'example_user1dsioaioedfhgoiesajdigtoearogjaidofgjo'
-
-  # s3 config - if set, carrierwave will store your photos on s3. Otherwise they're on the filesystem.
-  #s3_key: 'key'
-  #s3_secret: 'secret'
-  #s3_bucket: 'my_photos'
-  s3_region: 'us-east-1'
-
-  # Set this to true if you want to do everything synchronously instead of using resque, our redis-backed queue system.
-  single_process_mode: true
-
-
-# Use this section to override default settings in specific environments
-development:
-  <<: *defaults
-  enable_splunk_logging: false
-
-production:
-  <<: *defaults
-  single_process_mode: false
-
-  # Setting the root certificate bundle (this is operating system specific). Defaults:
-  # CentOS: '/etc/pki/tls/certs/ca-bundle.crt'
-  # Debian: '/etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt'
-  ca_file: '/etc/pki/tls/certs/ca-bundle.crt'
-
-# Do not touch unless you know what you're doing
-test:
-  <<: *defaults
-  pod_url: "http://example.org"
-  socket_port: 8081
-  enable_splunk_logging: false
-