Koozali.org: home of the SME Server

Legacy Forums => General Discussion (Legacy) => Topic started by: Theo on September 18, 2002, 09:46:10 PM

Title: forum program for SME
Post by: Theo on September 18, 2002, 09:46:10 PM

I need a BB/forum for my website-I see that this site uses phorum. Does anyone have recommendations on a good noob installed forum?

Title: Re: forum program for SME
Post by: Dan Brown on September 18, 2002, 09:52:11 PM

I like phpBB; take a look at my contributed howto for information on how to set it up.

Title: Re: forum program for SME
Post by: Quade on September 18, 2002, 10:14:05 PM

Theo, I've written a BBS specifically for SME server (I'm running SME 5.0 at home) in PHP/MSQL

It's still in beta, but I'm using it on my site. Check it out at http://thegeekhouse.com. If you like it, maybe we can figure out how to get it installed on your site.

-Quade

Title: Re: forum program for SME
Post by: James Redfern on September 18, 2002, 11:37:45 PM

DNS failure on http://thegeekhouse.com  8^(

Title: Re: forum program for SME
Post by: Theo on September 19, 2002, 02:59:06 AM

Dan-thanks for the Freakin help! It was virtually without a hitch. I had to DL the bb elsewhere as the wget address didn’t provide a valid file. It provided one about 11k on two attempts that wasnt a valid gz file. Other than that, (and I was very careful to follow your instructions and not mis spell or mis-case anything) it was perfect! If you need to elaborate anything it might be the very end-where you enter in the info in the php install window, just reassure the noobs what names and pw goes where. Anyone else interested in putting a forum on their site, check this out under 'web discussion forums'
http://www.e-smith.org/cgi-bin/contrib.cgi

Title: Re: forum program for SME
Post by: Joshua K on October 17, 2002, 03:07:09 AM

Hmmm... I did something wrong, but went over everything again and again. I get a 403 Forbidden error when accessing http://myserver/phpBB2
The only thing I did differently was use a different password.

Title: Re: forum program for SME
Post by: Joshua K on October 17, 2002, 03:09:38 AM

I should be more specific. I followed the instructions for phpBB2 at http://www.e-smith.org/cgi-bin/contrib.cgiTheo wrote:
>
> Dan-thanks for the Freakin help! It was virtually without a
> hitch. I had to DL the bb elsewhere as the wget address
> didn’t provide a valid file. It provided one about 11k on two
> attempts that wasnt a valid gz file. Other than that, (and I
> was very careful to follow your instructions and not mis
> spell or mis-case anything) it was perfect! If you need to
> elaborate anything it might be the very end-where you enter
> in the info in the php install window, just reassure the
> noobs what names and pw goes where. Anyone else interested in
> putting a forum on their site, check this out under 'web
> discussion forums'
> http://www.e-smith.org/cgi-bin/contrib.cgi

Title: Re: forum program for SME
Post by: James Redfern on October 17, 2002, 06:18:21 AM

Theo wrote:

>                                            Anyone else interested in
> putting a forum on their site, check this out under 'web
> discussion forums'
> http://www.e-smith.org/cgi-bin/contrib.cgi

That's getting pretty long in the tooth now.  The latest version 2.0.2 is much easier to install and sets real easily.  Fast too.

JR.

Title: Re: forum program for SME
Post by: Dan Brown on October 17, 2002, 06:50:23 AM

James, actually, the HOWTO is for 2.0.2, it's just that the title in the contrib list hasn't been changed yet.

Title: Re: forum program for SME
Post by: James Redfern on October 17, 2002, 06:53:59 AM

Well anyway, its a great piece of software.

JR.

Title: Re: forum program for SME
Post by: Joshua K on October 17, 2002, 07:08:12 AM

Awwww, I was all excited to see three replies, thought my problem was solved for sure, heh.