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Title: Which Forum?
Post by: gbentley on October 09, 2007, 08:06:45 PM

Im looking for a simple, quick, easy forum software to use with SME.

Any recommendations ?

How about this :-

http://awsd.com/scripts/webbbs/

Title: Re: Which Forum?
Post by: haymann on October 09, 2007, 09:20:53 PM

I have been using SMF (http://simplemachines.org/) (the forum software used here @ contribs in fact...) for over a year w/ no problems. To help installing it in /opt you might want to look at the SME Site Maker (http://wiki.contribs.org/SME_Site_Maker) script.
hth,
Ryan

Title: Re: Which Forum?
Post by: JoshuaR on October 11, 2007, 04:35:54 AM

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Im looking for a simple, quick, easy forum software to use with SME.

I really like phpbb, it's very easy to use, and with this contrib (http://wiki.contribs.org/PhpBB) you'll have it up and running seriously before you know it  ;-).

Title: Re: Which Forum?
Post by: gbentley on October 11, 2007, 09:10:08 AM

Josh - Wow - yes, as easy as falling off a log .... however ...

My problem is that I only want to run it locally, and phpBB seems to be very tied to my 'external' details. We also have our actual website hosted elsewhere and Im getting tripped up on authorisation issues.

I am guessing that I would need to change the config - but cant get into admin panel ...

Edit: Solved using this toolkit ;

http://starfoxtj.phpbbhelp.org//phpBB/toolkit/

Changed cookie domain and URL to local IP of box

Title: Re: Which Forum?
Post by: JoshuaR on October 11, 2007, 09:24:20 AM

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My problem is that I only want to run it locally

So I'm guessing you have your server set to "private server and gateway"?
If you do, the forum should only be available to your LAN.

But I'm not really sure what you mean by

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phpBB seems to be very tied to my 'external' details.

so forgive me if what I just said isn't relevent at all  :smile:.

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I am guessing that I would need to change the config - but cant get into admin panel ...

You're talking about the phpbb admin panel?  If so, it took me a little while to find where phpbb installed to, but it is in:
 
/opt/phpBB2

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My problem is that I only want to run it locally, and phpBB seems to be very tied to my 'external' details. We also have our actual website hosted elsewhere and Im getting tripped up on authorisation issues.

Looking back on this post, I seem a bit dis-jointed, but if you could provide some more details, eg. what you want to do with your forum/how you want it to be accessed (LAN, WAN, WEB, etc) I might be able to help.

Cheers,
Josh