Topic: Portal for SME 6.0

[micronator]

I am looking for a portal to install on my SME 6.0
I looked at METADOT. Looks very nice.
I tried it first on an RH7.3 because it will be more difficult on SME for the configuration.
I guess my 7.3 is a little bit confused since it is quite old and I tried lot of things on it.
So after quite a few hours, it still didn't work.
I am sure I am not the first one to want a portal on SME.
I look through search but still not enough.
If somebody have an idea it will be appcreciated.

Thank in advance.

[cyberjoe]

I'm looking at Twiggi - somewhere in these forums I've seen a recipe for installing it -- in the past I've also looked at phpwebsite and phpnuke -- anyone want to comment on the relative merits? I once did install metadot anfd liked it, but never put it in production ( not on SME either)

[del]

HI,
I have been using Twiggi for about 12 months, very good and easy to install. There is a contrib on this site by Darrell May, you can find it under his contribs in downloads. Search these forums for more help.
Regards,
Del

[cyberjoe]

Del,

I have been looking at D. May's website and all over for the cookbook for twiggi -- I want to make it available for all users -- do I install in an ibay? what are the steps?

Van

[shanen]

I've tested PostNuke on 6 final and can tell you it works fine. There has been some performance concerns raised and I don't think they were resolved.

Shane

[mocco]

Del,

I have been looking at D. May's website and all over for the cookbook for twiggi -- I want to make it available for all users -- do I install in an ibay? what are the steps?

Van

Look No Further
http://mirror.contribs.org/smeserver/contribs/dmay/smeserver/6.x/contrib/Twiggi/
More info herehttp://www.twiggi.org/install.php

[ergozd]

In order to get METADOT work

1 - install mod_perl contrib
2 - in /etc/httpd

change
AddHandler cgi-script .cgi

to
AddHandler cgi-script .cgi .pl

Don't forget to modify your templates to make sure you have the settings perminent...

Good luck.

[Bassman]

Have you considered Xoops? This site is done with Xoops, and I assume the site his hosted on a SME server? I have set up a few Xoops sites (not on SME though) and it is excepionally easy to install and use.

[del]

Hi Van,
I just installed it and it was available for all users by default, yourdomain.com/twiggi
Good Luck,
Del

[jmartin]

In order to get METADOT work

1 - install mod_perl contrib
2 - in /etc/httpd

change
AddHandler cgi-script .cgi

to
AddHandler cgi-script .cgi .pl

Don't forget to modify your templates to make sure you have the settings perminent...

Good luck.

Thanks for all your help on these forums.  I'd really like to check out METADOT but need more instructions than the above hint.

[ergozd]

I'll try to put together a HowTo. Stay tuned.

[ergozd]

Well, I put together a HowTo for Metadot...

There might be some "bugs" so use it at your own risk.

Good luck...
http://www.ergin.net/download/metadot/metadot603.htm

[ergozd]

I've updated Metadot Howto
http://www.ergin.net/download/metadot/metadot603.htm

Best rgds, Ergin

[wallyrp]

Good Evening,

OK I'm going nutzoid. I've tried to follow the how-to and have had limited to no success. I downloaded all the files listed in the how-to plus the latest metadot v6.3.2. I've installed the phpmyadmin contrib with success even though I can't access the dadblame https://192.x.x.x/phpmyadmin page. I don't understand why this is the case. I've installed SME Server Custom ISO three times using a fresh clean "wipe-it-out" install. I've used the phpmyadmin contrib in the past with no problems out of the box. More than likely, I'll do another fresh clean "wipe-it-out" install again to hopefully recoup.

When reading the how-to, it seems that I'm going forward, backing up, then forward again. I don't have any errors when installing the perl rpms. I don't have any errors when installing any contribs needed.

The errors I have are in relation to the phpmyadmin as well as accessing metadot via the browser. I'm getting your not authorized message when accessing http://192.x.x.x/metadot.

Any ideas on the command lines that would replace the screen shots of phpmyadmin? I don't understand the language #1 and #2, I can't access phpmyadmin anyways.

ANY HELP OR IDEAS WOULD BE MUCH APPRECIATED!!! I like the looks of the metadot project and would like to implement it on a production server to take care of my web server front end.

I'm open to xoops but I like the looks of metadot better at this point.

[fpausp]

What do you all think about tikiwiki cms ?

http://www.arachnerd.org/tiki-index.php?page=MitelSMETikiSetup

It has many features

[ergozd]

Hi wallyrp!

phpmyadmin contrib - I am not sure which version you've installed but you might be missing config.inc.php, check your /opt/administration/phpmyadmin catalogue , if you don't have it I can send one over.

I am not really sure what you mean with #1 and #2, can you be more specific?

Best rgds, Ergin

[wallyrp]

Ok, I finally got it working but I am getting the following error:

debug: An error has occurred while processing the template:
file error - portal_chooser.tt2: not found
debug: An error has occurred while processing the template:
file error - transitional_portal.tt2: not found

If anyone has any suggestions, let me know please? I'm going to mess around with it some more and see if I can fix it.

[wallyrp]

Ok, fixed the problem with the template error. Need to update the how-to.

The metadot.conf file in the /home/e-smith/files/ibays/Primary/html/metadot/etc folder needs to properly reflect where the skins are. It needs to be changed from /home/metadot/metadot/sitedata/skins to /home/e-smith/files/ibays/Primary/html/metadot/sitedata/skins

It's fixed and it's working. Now all I need to do is place a index.html file that jumps folks to the metadot portal.

I need a hair transplant after this. I think I'll try to re-do the how-to and will provide a link to it from here.

[wallyrp]

OK, if it weren't for my dogged persistence in this area, I would have given up a long time ago.

I still have issues with what appears to be a default setting in the Metadot files. They default the location path of Metadot to /home/metadot/metadot and since I want this to be my main web page, I don't want the ugly url that would be in place if I did that such as, http://domain/~metadot.

I change the paths for images and some show and others do not. I change it back and it's vica versa. Acckkkkkkkk... cough sputter... Still working through this.

Still curious if anyone else out there has attempted to install this portal and if they have any ideas?

[ergozd]

I know, I tried to install on an ibay () and I tried SMEServer httpd-DocumentRoot (/home/e-smith/files/ibays/Primary/html) ().

Therefore I am happy to have managed to install it as I described in my Howto and I can access it at
http://domain.name/metadot/ and it works for me...
Check out http://ergin.dyndns.org/metadot/

if anyoneelse has managed to install it in any other way pls drop a few lines.

Best rgds, Ergin

[wallyrp]

Could you email me a screenshot of your system parameters? I've tried everything in the world with the images and still have found no consistency.

I did not eventually create an ibay and put metadot in it but rather, I put it in /home/e-smith/files/ibays/primary/html/metadot with all the appropriate folders below that. In some of the places for the images, they want the absolute path which I'm assuming is the one that is in the above format and others want the friendly url type. I've tried so many things that it's getting all mushed up together up there. There is one thing, when I'm in Styles & Colors, the logo preview doesn't show any image when I select them. I'm not sure where it's pulling the path from.

Ok, when I choose a logo, the url that shows as the url for the properties for the image placeholder is http://theredneck.mine.nu/home/e-smith/files/ibays/Primary/html/metadot/sitedata/public/filename.gif. I digress though, I'll poke around on the metadot.com site to see what's going on. Have you tweaked your site as in uploading custom images and such for the main structure of your site?

If you want to visit mine, go to http://theredneck.mine.nu

[wallyrp]

Good Evening,

My next step is to work with the LDAP authentication portion of Metadot. Has anyone tried this?

[wallyrp]

Good Afternoon,

A word to the wise, I don't know what is installed in the custom iso that is floating around out there but you can't install Metadot on it. I don't know why but you just can't.

Going to try on the 6.5 beta but haven't yet.

Question, I noticed in the how-to that you directly modify the httpd.conf file. You state that if the webmail is enabled, you think that this is ok. Well, I've enabled webmail and it doesn't modify this portion of the httpd.conf file. If I directly modify the file, it doesn't stay so, I'm not sure which file in /etc/e-smith/templates/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf to modify to re-write the modification that you state needs to be there. I've attempted to put it in the file 87metadot but that doesn't work either. Any ideas on this?

[ergozd]

Hello wallyrp!

I have not modified the httpd.conf directly, I just showed a screendump for <Directory />

What I meant with that FollowSymLinks would be activated

You can modify template
/etc/e-smith/templates/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf/85DefaultAccess

OR even better create a new template
/etc/e-smith/templates-custom/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf/85DefaultAccess

and change
Options None TO
Options FollowSymLinks

What message(-s) do you get when things don't work aout? You can get logs from
/var/log/messages OR
/var/log/htttd/error_log

Best rgds, Ergin

[wallyrp]

Good Morning,

Pardon my ignorance on this subject but, is there any matrix that would describe the numbering and naming of files like this? I noticed that you labeled it 85DefaultAccess and my assumption would be that it deals with a certain portion of the httpd.conf file or is in the lineup of files that re-compile the httpd.conf file everytime SME reboots.