Re: How to host a forum on Fedora

[Ray Van Dolson <rvandolson esri com>]

On Fri, Feb 23, 2007 at 12:17:35PM -0700, karlp ourldsfamily com wrote:
> 
> On Thu, February 22, 2007 5:07 pm, Rick Stevens wrote:
> > On Thu, 2007-02-22 at 13:45 -0800, Bret Stern wrote:
> >> I would like to use one of my servers to host
> >> a forum on machinery.
> >>
> >> Is there a package with Fedora which allows this?
> >
> > Depends on which type of forum you want:
> >
> > Bulletin boards: phpbb is one of the best (requires Apache and PHP)
> 
> What does fedoraforum.org use? If it's phpbb, I may give it a look, other than
> figuring out how to start a new thread takes too much effort...

They use vBulletin (if I reremember correctly).  It's commercial software.
Personally I am a fan of PunBB which the OpenWRT project uses
(http://forum.openwrt.org/).  A clean unobtrusive look.

> > Wikis: Probably "wikiserver" is the one to use.  It's stand alone
> > (includes its own web server built-in).  Here's a link:
> >
> >         http://sourceforge.net/projects/wikiserver/
> 
> How annoying is it to have this running with Apache, or is it even possible?

Don't know on wikiserver, but I've used MoinMoin for a lot of projects and it
is fairly widely used (I believe the Fedora project uses it for their Wiki
pages).  It has a nice GUI editor for those who don't know "wiki language".
It is Python based and quite easy to get working with Apache.

> You can tell I've done no thinking on this and even less research...
> 
> Karl

Ray