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JMorris
Re: Searchservers.com Need Review
  • 2004/6/6 6:40

  • JMorris

  • XOOPS is my life!

  • Posts: 2722

  • Since: 2004/4/11


-> Download a backup of your database schema (SQL Dump)
-> Open it in a text editor
-> Do a find and replace
--> Find: www.searchservers.com/find/
--> Replace with: www.searchservers.com/
-> Save the schema (make sure it saves as a .sql file and not a .txt file)
-> Download mainfile.php, open it in a text editor and look for the following code:

// XOOPS Physical Path
    // Physical path to your main XOOPS directory WITHOUT trailing slash
    
define('XOOPS_ROOT_PATH''onlinehome/www/find');

    
// XOOPS Virtual Path (URL)
    // Virtual path to your main XOOPS directory WITHOUT trailing slash
    
define('XOOPS_URL''w*w.searchservers.com/find/');

Without the * between the two w's of course

-> Delete /find from the Physical path
-> Delete /find from the Virtual path
-> Save mainfile.php and reupload
-> Re-import the SQL schema into your database

That should take care of you. If not, check the threads, there's several posts about this subject.

BTW. Nice site.



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JMorris
Re: Newb Question: server at home...how do you setup confirmation email?
  • 2004/6/6 6:12

  • JMorris

  • XOOPS is my life!

  • Posts: 2722

  • Since: 2004/4/11


POP3 = Post Office Protocol
SMTP = Simple Mail Transfer Protocol

When it comes to getting a POP3/SMTP account, you have tons of options. I know that Yahoo offers a POP3 option. And if you do a little digging around on google, you'll find tons of free services. Just verify that the provider offers SMTP. Not all POP3 providers do.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&q=POP3+email&spell=1

To be quite honest though, uless you go with a free POP3 provider, you'd just be better off to get a economical web hosting package that offers e-mail and uses Linux/Unix servers, it's about the same price ($5-$10/mo. US).



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JMorris
Re: any churches using xoop to power their website?
  • 2004/6/6 3:17

  • JMorris

  • XOOPS is my life!

  • Posts: 2722

  • Since: 2004/4/11


My best friend (who happens to be a Minister) has a XOOPS site.

http://calvaryscry.com/

It's not too fancy, but that's how he wanted it. I guess some people are happy with XOOPS just the way it is.



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JMorris
Re: Newb Question: server at home...how do you setup confirmation email?
  • 2004/6/6 3:02

  • JMorris

  • XOOPS is my life!

  • Posts: 2722

  • Since: 2004/4/11


Let me guess, you're users are probably getting the following error when they try to register...

Quote:
You are now registered. However, we were unable to send the activation mail to your email account due to an internal error that had occurred on our server. We are sorry for the inconvenience, please send the webmaster an email notifying him/her of the situation.

When I tried sending mail using php mail() on my Windows system (port 25 is not blocked by my ISP) the mail would not go through. You may have better luck with Linux if sendmail is installed. However, you already have a couple strikes against you.

1. Hotmail does not accept smtp requests (I went around with them for months on this issue)
2. Many ISPs block port 25 (outgoing mail) because of the huge spam issue
3. Unless you're running a NT based version of Windows with IIS, you would need to install a third-party mail server.

I'm not saying it's impossible to do what you want to do, but it won't be easy.

Your best bet is to get a POP3 e-mail account. Then you can configure XOOPS to use SMTP host(s) in the Mail Setup section of Preferences.



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JMorris
Re: adding a graphic as a background to the theme.html file
  • 2004/6/6 2:40

  • JMorris

  • XOOPS is my life!

  • Posts: 2722

  • Since: 2004/4/11


-> Open the theme file you are trying to edit
-> If the <td> tag has a class i.e.:

<td class="classname">

....just open the style sheet(s) for the theme you are using (style.css, styleNN.css, styleMac.css) and add the following code to the section that defines the cell class class between the two squigly brackets {...} i.e.:

td.classname {
[
color=FF0000]background url(index_06.gifno-repeat fixed center center;[/color]
)

-> If there is no class defined for the cell, create one by adding class="pickaname" to the <td> tag, then add the appropriate code to your style sheets.



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JMorris
Re: Converting Existing Site to Xoops
  • 2004/6/3 17:34

  • JMorris

  • XOOPS is my life!

  • Posts: 2722

  • Since: 2004/4/11


My services are available. Please check your PM for my contact information.



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JMorris
Re: Layout Problems
  • 2004/6/3 16:24

  • JMorris

  • XOOPS is my life!

  • Posts: 2722

  • Since: 2004/4/11


The problem is the CSS. You may want to take a look at the IE 5.x Hack in the download section.
https://xoops.org/modules/mydownloads/viewcat.php?cid=28&min=10&orderby=titleA&show=10

If you really want to go a step further to ensure your site looks the same to all visitors, visit the W3C CSS Validator and correct any errors found. If you don't know CSS, you can get an excellent primer at W3Schools.



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JMorris
Re: hel with menu css
  • 2004/6/3 16:14

  • JMorris

  • XOOPS is my life!

  • Posts: 2722

  • Since: 2004/4/11


What exactly is the problem you are having?

Looking at your site, it appears you've already done some mods to the navigation. It would probably just be a simple matter of replacing your current navigation code with the new, then inserting the CSS into the style sheets. Since the class ids are specific to the navigion bar, you should just be able to copy and paste the code in the apropriate places. Then just ad the links and labels.



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JMorris
Re: Is XOOPS for me?
  • 2004/6/3 16:02

  • JMorris

  • XOOPS is my life!

  • Posts: 2722

  • Since: 2004/4/11


I used PHPNuke, PostNuke, and Drupal for months before I found Xoops. From the very 1st install of Xoops, I felt the same way you do. Now all my peers call me the XOOPS Fanatic. I'm constantly plugging XOOPS to them and trying to get them to switch over.

As I've said in other threads.... I've yet to find a website need that couldn't be filled by Xoops.

Keep up the good work guys!



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JMorris
Re: Forum linking to existing phpBB setup - HELP
  • 2004/6/3 15:32

  • JMorris

  • XOOPS is my life!

  • Posts: 2722

  • Since: 2004/4/11


The existing newBB forum built into XOOPS is loosely based on phpBB. There is a hack available (phpBB-to-newBB) that will migrate the users from your phpBB forum over to the newBB forum.

The reason I mention this is because you can use this hack to migrate the user accounts into Xoops, then all you have to do is disable the newBB forum. Works pretty good actually. There may be some missing contact information, and the avatars don't carry over, but if you're just interested in importing the user accounts for site access, it will work quite nicely. You could do as mentioned above and install the phpBB port and replace newBB, but that's your call.

As far as linking to an outside forum.... Depends on your theme and module setup. If you're using the default theme and navigation, you'll need to create a block with a hyperlink. Some themes have the links hard-coded into them, just edit the code with the appropriate URL. There are also custom navigation modules available that replace the default system module. iMenu is especially useful for this purpose.

The iMenu module is available in the main sourceforge repository @http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=41586&package_id=105497

You can download the phpBB-to-newBB hack here:
http://www.herve-thouzard.com/modules/mydownloads/singlefile.php?cid=7&lid=62

Hope this helps.




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