I'm finally back to working on this site. I installed the smartpartner module but it appears to be broken. The add new partner link goes to a blank page and the blocks and groups link has a fatal error.

Any ideas?

Hi All,

I'm looking for a way to have small banners, 120 x60 in a block on the right side of my site. I see how XOOPS has a banner manager but is there a way to have banners listed similar to how the 'Powered by' section is listed on the XOOPS site? Basically this would be for sponsors or free banner exchange.

Thanks

Well the weird thing is that on the forum admin index page it says there are two topics and two total posts. One of the two should be the one thats needs to be moderated but there is no where to choose to approve it.

I must be going crazy. I can't seem to find the moderation options for the forum anywhere. Where do I approve new forum posts, make posts stickies and all that other stuff?

Thanks.

I have extensive experience in the hosting industry and its been my main business for over 6 years. I've sold, installed and used VPS's from swsoft (vituozzo), ensim, vmware and sphera.

Ensim was the top of this game for a long time but have fallen of drastically of late. The main advantage to their system was that it was a true VPS. There was a management level loaded to the server and then partitions. Any OS could be loaded and managed exactly as a dedicated server.

Vmware is basically the same as ensim. It's completely independent and very stable, like ensim use to be. As with ensim and vmware you could only split up the memory and processor in "real time". There is no way to oversell the server resources. This leaves you with a maximum of maybe 6 to 8 VPS's with 512 mb ram to a box.

The issue you need be aware of with virtuozzo is two fold. The first is that their "independent os" is actually based off an install template. If you modify the os in any way and they apply a patch it will overwrite certain files you customized. Also there are some base root files that are shared among all the users. The other thing, and of far more concern, is that with virtuozzo is that the host can oversell the processor and memory. This is how swsoft tells the host they can have 100's of VPS's on a box. They are banking on no one using their resources all at the same time.

I've had a lot of experience with these and I would recommend finding a host that offers ensims vps (if you can find one anymore) or vmware. Virtuozzo really is nothing more than fancy shared hosting.

Alternatively for the prices of dedicated servers these days you could practically pick one up for the price of a VPS. What would be a better idea is for a few users here to just go in on a dedicated server and host their sites off it. Simple and easy way to go. If anyone needs any help or advice in the hosting realm feel free to hit me up. I'm loving XOOPS so far and this cimmunity has been great so far.

I'm a bit new to XOOPS but I've figured out everything except...is there a way I can keep 2 or 3 news stories at the top of the home page and have everything get entered below them?

Thanks!

Fantastic! That did it. Since I'm a newbie would you indulge me and tell me what the purpose of the templates_c folder is?

Thanks

This is what i changed it to...

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I can't understand why it remains the same on the server. I even went so far as to delete the theme.html page completely from the server then reloaded it with these changes and it remains exactly the same way.

i have not deleted the contents of templates_folder. should i?

i do not cache enabled.

I recently downloaded the blue_shine template and i really like its look but once again I can't seem to change the links. At the top of the page are links to downloads and links. I downloaded the theme.html file. removed the links since I don't have a download or link area then loaded the page back up to the server. However the links still remain.

It's so frustrating. I have no clue why these updates I'm doing to the code on these pages isn't changing. Am I missing something here? I've done a lot of design but this is my first in depth modification of a XOOPS site.

Thanks

Nothing in there. I can't find it anywhere.