Can I do this???

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ZTR1760

Discussion Starter · Nov 23, 2009

Okay so I am by far NOT a web creator dude, my relm is hardware, HOWEVER, being a CIT major the school gives me some space on what they call the W: drive, this drive is part of the server for their website so I get my own little webpage at www.schoolsname.edu/~myusername, now I got about 20GB of space..... why so much idk but anyway I wanna use it!

So this is what I was thinking Ive never done anything more than have a simple website with links, and different pages, and maybe pics and embedded vids,e but for this one I was hoping to maybe do this...

Create a small Forum for news and info and such, and create a simple chat room. Along with maybe a simple home page that has some new articles or things of interest on there.....

Now I would want to be able to control who had access to this, basically I want people to have to create a username n junk, (or even send a request for a username and have me manually input their stuff to create it for them)

I want pretty good control over this site because lets say its for a club that most of the school would prolly laugh at and torment and just spam the heck out of the site....

Is this possible? and if so how would I go about doing it....

oh note* I dont know if i can install anything on this space... I think I may just be limited to dragging and dropping files into the drive......

Major thanks and reps if you can help

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· #2 · Nov 23, 2009

You will need support for things liky MYSQL and PHP.

This is all handled server side, the server will need to support those features. I don't think you'll need to write the page yourself.

More like get an existing forum framework and set it up to your specs.

Coding it all yourself would be a big project.

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ZTR1760

Discussion Starter · #3 · Nov 23, 2009

yea thats what I was thinking but idk how to go about doing that

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· #4 · Nov 23, 2009

Here is an example of open source, freeware forum software:
http://vanillaforums.org/

I have no experience with this though, so its up to you to sort through the various flavors of forum software to determine what works best for you.

You will have to consult the server admin to see if they have MYSQL and PHP support. If it is a full fledged web server, it likely does.

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AMD+nVidia

· #5 · Nov 23, 2009

I really seriously doubt you'll be able to do that, most likely it's just space like at my colleges.

I don't think you can get a MySQL or forum or ANYTHING running there for real.

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· #6 · Nov 23, 2009

Depends.

My college webspace had both.

Although if it is just school webspace, I highly doubt they will allow you to run a forum.

You can purchase your own space and domain on the cheap.

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ZTR1760

Discussion Starter · #7 · Nov 23, 2009

well I was thinking I have an old domain name that I never used, and with this new opera web server app thing I was wondering if I could use that..... if the school server thing doesn't work out

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timw4mail

· #8 · Nov 23, 2009

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Originally Posted by ZTR1760

well I was thinking I have an old domain name that I never used, and with this new opera web server app thing I was wondering if I could use that..... if the school server thing doesn't work out

No, that doesn't support server-side either. All you can do with that is static HTML pages. You'd either need to buy hosting, or you'd need to set up your own server on your internet connection.

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ZTR1760

Discussion Starter · #9 · Nov 23, 2009

well that sucks.......apparently that vanilla site will host the forums for you so I could just create a webpage with a link to it i guess

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ZTR1760

Discussion Starter · #10 · Nov 25, 2009

Question, do you need MySQL and all that junk to run a simple chatroom?

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timw4mail

· #11 · Nov 25, 2009

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Originally Posted by ZTR1760

Question, do you need MySQL and all that junk to run a simple chatroom?

Depends on the chatroom. Most won't require MySQL, but probably require a java applet, with is user-side, so would probably work on a university web space.

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ZTR1760

Discussion Starter · #12 · Nov 25, 2009

hmm nifty! Any idea how I would go about doing this?

Also, I started a thing on vanilla forums, but i dont like the setup it has, I was hoping more like a template like overclock where you have the main topic, then sub topics then individual posts and then a discussion inside the individual post...
tho i prolly wouldnt need the sub topic part.....but the general format I like, is there anything like vanilla where I can get that layout?

Actually I think i may have found the solution to both my problems, a site called free forums not only hosts a really good forum, but you can enable a chat feature.... this is niiiiiiiice

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