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 :

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

bash code
​ServerAlias smf.yourhomedomain​

add this line right after

bash code
​ServerAlias myforum.info​

Step 2

run the repair script.

http://myforum.info/repair_settings.php

Don´t forget to remove ¨repair_settings.php¨.