Topic: E-Smith and Ultimate Bulletin Board

[Mike Stoddart]

Has anyone managed to configure the Ultimate Bulletin Board (www.ultimatebb.com) on an E-Smith server?

[Lasse Johansson]

Well, I haven't tried that, but successfully implemented installations of DISCUS (http://www.discusware.com/discus/) on E-Smith-servers...

(Maybe another idea for you, if UBB fails for some reason...)

//Lasse

[Mike Stoddart]

Finally got it working. I was unzipping the files on my windows box, then using samba to copy them onto the server. This messed up the cgi files as they were copied and saved as DOS format, and not Unix. Take note of this!

I'd recommend people take a look at this forum. It works beautifully with E-Smith (like everything else for me!).

http://206.47.27.130/forum/cgi-bin/Ultimate.cgi?action=intro

Now I need to register a real domain name!

[Joseph Morrison]

Hi Mike,

> I'd recommend people take a look at this forum. It works
> beautifully with E-Smith (like everything else for me!).
>
> http://206.47.27.130/forum/cgi-bin/Ultimate.cgi?action=intro

Wow - that looks great! Thanks for posting about it!
Best regards,
- Joe

[Charlie Brady]

Mike Stoddart wrote:

> Finally got it working. I was unzipping the files on my windows
> box, then using samba to copy them onto the server. This messed
> up the cgi files as they were copied and saved as DOS format,
> and not Unix. Take note of this!

You probably lost the execute permissions on those files as well.

> I'd recommend people take a look at this forum. It works
> beautifully with E-Smith (like everything else for me!).
>
> http://206.47.27.130/forum/cgi-bin/Ultimate.cgi?action=intro

Looks good. Even works with a nice little text mode browser - w3m.  I've got some RPMs of it at http://e-smith.gormand.com.au/ if anyone is interested.

Charlie