Real newbie question

[whyspers]

I'm installing wwwthreads (we just signed up for HR today) and am having trouble with the paths. On our old server, we used

/home/httpd/html/jtrscollectorsclub.com/php/wwwthreads

Can someone please tell me what it should be here? Don't think I had nearly so much trouble when I installed in last week.

Thanks!
Laura

[noox]

Hey cool! I thought I'm the only one using WWWThreads here.

Although I will wait till the wwwThreads 5.4 PHP is out I have already installed the demo PHP board. I've set the path to:

$config['path'] = "/home/username/public_html/threads/";

Where username is your login-name. I used "threads" as the root directory for the wwwthread installation.
Then your forum will be accessible under: www.yourdomain.com/threads/

The path /home/username/public_html/ allways refers to your domain name: (www.yourdomain.com/)

Note: As you have signed up today your domain name is not rooted to this server. This will last some days (I noticed about one to 4 days) So you have to acces your page with http://ipnumber/~username/.

nòóx

[whyspers]

Thank you! Worked like a charm! I've seen wwwthreads in use at mycoupons.com for some time now. They have a HUGE user base and this seems to have worked very well for them, so it was my first choice.

I have to say, it was relatively simple to install (I've never worked with php or mySQL before) once I knew what path to use. I would definately recommend it to anyone.

Now...does anyone know how I can customize a registration process that would allow our users to only register the one time rather than register to access member areas, register again for the message boards and then yet again for chat?

Oh, I've also been checking out the chat that comes with the site. Can it be customized as far as a "skin" or the colors go? Also, is there a way to log chat?

Thanks again!
Laura

[noox]

Now...does anyone know how I can customize a registration process that would allow our users to only register the one time rather than register to access member areas, register again for the message boards and then yet again for chat?The problem is, that you have different user databeses. One for wwwThreads and others for chat an member areas. You would have to make deep changes to these programs that they would work with only one user database.

The simpler way would be that every area allows auto-login with persistant cookies. So everybody has to register once on each part, but is then automatically logged in.

nòóx

[noox]

I don't know what's your problem is.

Maybe you could use the PHP-version. It's faster then the perl version because here we cannot run mod_perl.

I'm sure theres a detailed description of how to install WWWThreads. Maybe you need a shell account. Could be that you have to contact support to get one. On most host it's activated by default but not on host12.

Maybe I can help if you tell me your exact problem.

nòóx

[noox]

I don't think that you have to do this. Although I'm not familiar with that.

Grant has something to do with security to let specific user execute specific SQL statements on specific tables.

But I think that you are the only one who has rights to access your tables. As long as your are not using various database-users with different right's it's probably not necessary.

Maybe somebode else knows more about that.

nòóx