Topic: [Announce] SMF 1.1.4 for SME 7.x

[cool34000]

Hi all,


I've just finished an RPM to install SMF (Simple Machines Forum) on SME 7.x
I will not describe it a lot, it's the forum were are all using here
The forum has 6 languages pre-installed (de, en, fr, it, es, sv) but more are available online...
See the Wiki for more details...

RPM is here
Wiki article here

[girkers]

What these forums are not already being hosted on an SME server, I'm in shock. 

Thanks for this though as I really like the look of these forums over phpBB.

[sideshowtodd]

As you can see, this is my first post at contribs.org. I am fairly new to the world of SME, but I have had some college experience with Linux; although, my classes are aimed towards CCNA and do not focus much on linux. I have installed SMEv7.2 and I would like to install the SMF forum to share thoughts with my fellow classmates (eg. homework, lab help, gaming, etc). I am comfortable working in a shell environment but I am still new to the details of RPM and yum. Is the RPM you have listed in this thread a replacement for the instructions posted by Janm here: http://forums.contribs.org/index.php?topic=32348.0 ? Also, how can I find out if mySQL is already installed and what version it is? I installed the base 7.2 and then performed the countless available yum updates and now what all is included with the system. I'm sure it has more features than I can understand for now.

So my two concerns at hand are:
1.how to check if mySQL is installed (if so, what version)(if not, how to install correct rpm)
2.Installation of SMF using the process Janm described ~or~ the RPM listed below (or both)

Thank you for your knowledge and guidance!

[Boris]

So my two concerns at hand are:
1.how to check if mySQL is installed (if so, what version)(if not, how to install correct rpm)
2.Installation of SMF using the process Janm described ~or~ the RPM listed below (or both)

1. yum list mysql
or
rpm -q mysql
will show that its installed and the version number. (mysql-4.1.20-2.RHEL4.1.0.1 is the current)

2. just follow the how-to for the installation. It basically downloading the rpm and installing it with yum localinstall command.

Note:
It is useful to download and install phpmyadmin or phpmyadmin-multiuser web based mysql management add-on first. Makes it easy to create the mysql databases and users for you applications.

[sideshowtodd]

Thank you very much for your direction. The instructions made the installation easy. Although it seems as though my machine is not sending any emails to confirm user registrations. I'm not sure why it is unable to send mail, is there a step that I missed during setup?

[haymann]

Can you send any email from your server? Not just through SMF.

What are your mail settings in SMF?
Ryan

[sideshowtodd]

I'm not sure if this is the right thread for debugging my email, but no. I am unable to get emails sent by SMF. Also, I have been unable to use Thunderbird to get email from the SME server; although, webmail is functional. I have the email settings set to forward mail for the admin and other aliases to my google mail account. Do I need to learn about MX records and things of that sort? DynDNS is the company that redirects DNS queries to my dynamic IP from Comcast. I don't know much about that stuff yet. I've been focusing my studies on the OSI model layers: (subnetmasking, VLSM, TCP/IP, etc...) Any direction you can provide would be greatly appreciated.

Current Email Settings:

POP3 server access:  Allow private and public (secure POP3S)
IMAP server access:  Allow private and public (secure IMAPS)
Webmail access:  Allow HTTPS (secure)
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Virus scanning:  Enabled
Spam filtering:  Disabled
Executable content blocking:  Disabled
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E-mail retrieval mode:  Standard (SMTP)
SMTP authentication:  Allow SSMTP (secure)
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E-mail to unknown users:  Reject
Address of internal mail server:   
Address of Internet provider's mail server:

[haymann]

Certainly not an expert myself!
I do know that I could send an email to almost no one when trying to send directly from my server w/ a dynamic address. I had to specify my provider's mail server (mine is through GoDaddy). I don't know if that is the cause of the problem though because it seems like mail sent from SMF to a local SME account should go through.

What about the mail settings in SMF? I can't get to mine to double-check as I am currently locked out of my web apps...

[m]

Sylvain,

 thank you very much for this contrib. Works great!

Initially I had some trouble with the forum base URL, but I could solve it. I have added instructions to the wiki page.