Difference between revisions of "Simple Machines Forum"
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| − | Simple Machines Forum — SMF in short — is an Amahi BETA application. It's a free, professional grade software package that allows you to set up your own online community within minutes. | + | [http://www.amahi.org/apps/simple-machines-forum Simple Machines Forum] — SMF in short — is an Amahi BETA application. It's a free, professional grade software package that allows you to set up your own online community within minutes. |
| − | + | == Repair Initial Settings == | |
| − | + | Case you have setup a home domain (work group) then http://smf.yourhomedomain/index.php comes without formatting. You can repair this by following this simple steps : | |
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| − | Case you have setup a home domain ( | ||
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| − | + | sudo cp ~/Downloads/repair_settings.php /var/hda/web-apps/smf/html/repair_settings.php | |
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This way SMF will be again configured properly. | This way SMF will be again configured properly. | ||
| − | Don´t forget to remove ¨repair_settings.php¨. | + | Don´t forget to remove ¨repair_settings.php¨. |
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| − | + | == Make your forum available to everybody == | |
Supposed you own a domain (e.g myforum.info) and you have a way to update dns servers with your IP case you are dynamic (majority of home users) then you can do also the following: | Supposed you own a domain (e.g myforum.info) and you have a way to update dns servers with your IP case you are dynamic (majority of home users) then you can do also the following: | ||
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| − | + | ServerAlias smf.yourhomedomain | |
::add this line right after | ::add this line right after | ||
| − | + | ServerAlias myforum.info | |
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Don´t forget to remove ¨repair_settings.php¨. | Don´t forget to remove ¨repair_settings.php¨. | ||
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Latest revision as of 03:43, 23 June 2020
Simple Machines Forum — SMF in short — is an Amahi BETA application. It's a free, professional grade software package that allows you to set up your own online community within minutes.
Repair Initial Settings
Case you have setup a home domain (work group) then http://smf.yourhomedomain/index.php comes without formatting. You can repair this by following this simple steps :
- Step 1
- make preparation for the repair.
- download repair script
- http://download.simplemachines.org/index.php?thanks;filename=repair_settings.php
- place script in proper place
sudo cp ~/Downloads/repair_settings.php /var/hda/web-apps/smf/html/repair_settings.php
- Step 2
- run the script.
- http://smf.yourhomedomain/repair_settings.php
This way SMF will be again configured properly.
Don´t forget to remove ¨repair_settings.php¨.
Make your forum available to everybody
Supposed you own a domain (e.g myforum.info) and you have a way to update dns servers with your IP case you are dynamic (majority of home users) then you can do also the following:
- Step 1
- edit the file /etc/httpd/conf.d/####-smf.conf.
- find
ServerAlias smf.yourhomedomain
- add this line right after
ServerAlias myforum.info
- Step 2
- run the repair script.
- http://myforum.info/repair_settings.php
Don´t forget to remove ¨repair_settings.php¨.
