Topic: Phorum questions

[Alec Norek]

I am toying with the idea of running a private phorum on my server to do with share trading.  Has anybody got comments on ease of installation & any problems that I may encounter etc.  My e-smith is running so well that I don't want to open up a can of worms.  I know that it runs on this site, but these guys know what they are doing.  Any feedback would be much appreciated.

Alec

[Dan Brown]

I've installed Phorum without any major problems.  If you install PHP and MySQL, and then follow the directions, it shouldn't be a problem.  You can download the Phorum package from www.phorum.org.

[Alec Norek]

Thanks for the reply.  What I might do then is install webmail, which will will give me Mysql & PHP and then investigate Phorum first.  If all goes well I can then go onto assessing webmail.  Can you see any problems with this approach?

[Dan Brown]

I don't see any real problems, but I also don't see any advantage to installing the horde and imp packages at this point if what you want is the phorum software.  The MySQL/PHP packages are indepentent of the horde/imp packages--I just put the instructions together because webmail is the reason I packaged PHP for e-smith.