Can anyone recommend a good free web server...

#1 One possibility is PostNuke: www.postnuke.com

#2 WebGUI might be overkill, but it's good. www.plainblack.com

#3 Wow, those are very nice... I like postnuke, but the install.php doesn't seem to work with ie on win2k (keep getting the same page when I press the next button). Anyway I checked out phpnuke (from the postnuke site) and I think it's exactly what I'm looking for. Thanks for the lead Mike.

Appreciate both of your help...

John.

#4 to get install.php to work you need to be sure you have PHP installed on your web server.

#5 Best servers and software for those servers to have:
Apache(web server) - www.apache.org
MySQL(SQL database server) - www.mysql.com
PHP(server-side language) - www.php.net

and my favorite tool for maintaining my MySQL database server:
phpmyadmin(PHP scripted web tool) - www.phpmyadmin.net


And that's all I have to say. phpbb is also a very good forum web system: www.phpbb.com


Also the best thing I can think of about PHP, it's very simular to Torque's scripting language. It makes me think that some how Torque scripting is based off of PHP some how. :)

#6 Ya, I've got that much covered. In fact I had phpnuke setup in only a few minutes, but postnuke come with an install.php that your suppose to run to configure the system. The install.php displays the language (or license, I also tried 6.5) and a next button, when you click the button the browser reloads, but it's on the same page.

I tried what I thought was obvious; install apache instead of iis, try php cgi instead of sapi, and use a fully qualified host name (bob.domain.local). Oh well, I think the browser install only sets up the config.php, I'll just try to hack it by hand. What's the worst that can happen, it doesn't work now. :)

Thanks...

John.

#7 I'd be wary of Nuke portals, they're notorious for security holes. Seldom does a week go by that it isn't on the vulnerabilities mailing list I subscribe to.

#8 That's not good. What do you suggest?

Nuke is technically overkill for what I need, I've spent the past few hours disabling modules. I'm only really looking for the features I originally posted.

#9 I honestly don't know, I'd have to hunt, too. =/ It's not my intention to sound negative, though. If you can't find something, rolling your own might not be too hard, especially if you start with something that has at least some of the features you want.

What I ended up doing was reorganizing phpBB2 a little, so that it was a site on its own, but with the forums integrated. It allows for some little tricks--with mine, the news updates are actually private forum posts. Only certain people can create them, but everyone else can post followup comments. All it took was setting up the forum permissions and a couple SQL queries. A lot of the other stuff like downloads I created on my own, but it wasn't that tough once you get the hang of the template system phpBB2 uses.

It's a little dead (and not quite converted to the site's scheme), but you might as well take a look.

#10 Apache

#11 I like IB forums with IB portal for this kind of thing, always works great and I've never had an issue with security.

#12 Sorry I'm not familiar with IB forums, are you referring to:

http://www.invisionboard.com/

?


If so their site and a few others I found using the software look very nice. I'll download it tonight and give it a try.

Thanks...

John.

#13 Yep, that's what I'm talkin 'bout. :)