Problem with forum system . . .
first off, I like to let veryone know that i posted the same thing at the script master's support forum, but my cry for help never got answered.
Many of you should know about YaBB (Yet another Bulletin Board) the best damn forum script of all time.
Well, I just installed it for my upcoming site, but I have a slight problem: I'm clueless about the "avatar directories" thing. See, at first I thought directory (I'm a newbie at this whole HTML, Perl, PHP, MySQL, ect.) was a URL. 'Course, it wasn't. But now that I have an understanding of typing directories, it doesn't work.
I write /www/Other/YaBBImages/avatars/ and it doesn't recognize it. The URL of the directory is http://n-effect.netfirms.com/Other/YaBBImages/avatars/
Well, through the whole explanation of my understanding of directories and YaBB, I guess I'm just asking: How do I make this URL (http://n-effect.netfirms.com/Other/YaBBImages/avatars/) into a directory?
-Rob
Brian Farkas posted this at 06:03 — 9th December 2001.
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You need to put the FULL SERVER path... You can get this from running http://n-effect.netfirms.com/cgi/printenv
(I found this URL in the Netfirms support pages).
Therefore, the full server path to your script is:
/d02/sec/s25/a0007aky/www/Other/YaBBImages/avatars/
If THAT does not work, try just
/Other/YaBBImages/avatars/
Good luck.
Brian
Webnet posted this at 22:27 — 9th December 2001.
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Joined: Dec 2001
Huh. Doesn't work either way.
I'll try reinstalling it. Thanks for the help.
Anonymous posted this at 15:52 — 10th December 2001.
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In this case, try to config the avatars directory as "../../www/Other/YaBBImages/avatars/". Other directory configuration should be started with "../../".
Another thing to remember when you creat forum on Netfirms, you must set all your files' CHMOD to 755, don't do anything else as YaBB guess.
Good luck!
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