UBB.Developers Forums General Discussion Suggestions and Feedback Needs work

Sorry, but i have installed two other BB's this week and came back to this one because I think it has a better look [and is probably more secure once it is running]. Well, can't get the Perl demo to run, so I hope you make this an easier program for others.

I think you need an installer like ikonboard has. Does it via a browser. I can only use FTP so this one is impssible for me. Installed the line in the createtable script and it still wouldn't run. Had to search this site to find it too. Too hard for such a simple thing.

Also, the zipped Perl has so many folders and there are zips in the language section. Confusing. Better to have one folder called "wwwthreads" withl all the other stuff behind it. Tell us to FTP it in ascii to the cgi-bin and we are done. Do the image folder in binary to the home folder and you are done. Alter the scripts next [with clear instructions], and you are done. Here is a html installer to check that everything is correct.

Don't want to sound angry, but for $100 i expect more.

Like this board too.

PS I did do two others successfully, so I can do it. If only the directions were better????

The installation has always been something I've wanted to make eaiser, but since the support library went up most people have been having an easier time with installations so I haven't done much with this area.

Didn't realize there was still zips within zips, so I'll get that cleaned up.

If you are stuck on a particular install step then just ask and we should be able to get you going.

I like the idea of an installer being via the browser, I might take a stab at this. I'm getting my Linux system installed on Tuesday or so, so I'll probably polish off all the setup instructions while I'm at it. I'll try including a blurb in there for folks who don't have telnet access how to do the createtable step. I'll also take a look at the "hosted" instructions and see if they can be improved upon.



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I also noticed that the script for the demo and the directions in the support library in terms of what is needed for a Perl hosted site has conflicts. You might want to put in another sections for the demo or clean those up.

For example, this is what is said in the labrary-

# Path to your .include files
$config{'includes'} = '/home/httpd/cgi-bin/new/includes';

Couldn't find the include line in the demo w3tvars.

Then it says -

"# Path to your wwwthreads installation
$config{'languagepath'} = '/home/httpd/cgi-bin/w3t4/languages';

Same as above except to find path to languages folder "

No language line in the demo, also, the first line of this one should probably be-
#Path to your language installation.

Anyway, if we had a sample script of what these look like from a hosted site[or better yet the browser installer], then it would make this easier for me.

Then later under the create tables part in those directions it baffled me to. it says -

"1. You left out a " or ; or /
2. you put an additional / at the end of a line on w3tvars.pm
3. you forgot to change the reffer URL to http://www.yourdomain.com "

Ok , now if I look in the library it doesn't have any / after the relative or direct urls for the directions.

$config{'cgiurl'} = 'http://www.yourdomain.com/cgi-bin/wwwthreads';
$config{'images'} = 'wwwthreads/w3timages';
$config{'languagepath'} = '/home/httpd/cgi-bin/w3t4/languages';

So isn't it true there should be no / at the end of any paths????

Hope this makes sense!

Besides the browser install, they have another thing that makes it easier. They have this script-

http://www.ikonboard.com/support/perl_test.zip

That tests the versions of perl and checks the paths.

If you can't do the browser install, perhaps a script like this that would check the paths and put them out for us on a browser so we could print them off and copy them to the script would be helpful.

That's true. I'm planning on revising everything this week to update all the instructions (getting my linux set up) so hopefully these issues will be clarified then.



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Thank you.

I like the look of your boards the best!