Can anybody recommend a web portal that works with Abyss?

draxis · Guest

In the past few days Ive tried PHPnuke, PHPwebsite, myPHPnuke, and postnuke, plus some others, and they've all died 'the death of a thousand undefined $php_site variables' . The only one that works is mx-system for phpbb, but it has next to no features compared with the other portals.

Im about to try xoops and dark portal right now but I don't really expect them to work....has anybody had success getting one of the major webportal systems to work with abyss?

Please recommed one quick cuz I can't take this torture anymore!

aprelium · - Joined: 22 Mar 2002 Posts: 6800

Guest · Posted: Fri May 31, 2002 3:28 pm Post subject:

Everyone knows THAT doesn't work. Even in the post you reffered to, the guy there turned globals on with no result. I turned them on already myself and it doesn't work.

Are these problems going to be solved in the new version of abyss? Does anybody know the REAL solution?

Can anybody recommend a web portal that ACTUALLY works with Abyss???

TheLinker · - Joined: 05 Apr 2002 Posts: 165 Location: Oslo, Norway

draxis · Guest

specifcally my problem is: I keep getting 'sorry...you can't access this file directly...' at critical point in a variety of portals

on phpnuke: voteing in a poll, conducting a search, and submiting news all result in 'sorry...you can't access this file directly...'

on postnuke: submiting news results in 'sorry...you can't access this file directly...'

on phpwebsite: submiting news results in 'undefined variable: op in line 6..'
error 200 when a errors are turned off in php.ini

on myPHPnuke: installer (writen in php) doesnt work.

phpbb: voting in a poll results in 'you must first select a topic to reply to'

register_globals = on has NO effect on ANY of these errors.

Ive tried installing and uninstalling 3 versions of php all the way from 4.0.1 to 4.2.1 lastest release.

So im guessing abyss is the problem. Any ideas? Will the new abyss save the day? I really want to get phpnuke or postnuke working

TheLinker · - Joined: 05 Apr 2002 Posts: 165 Location: Oslo, Norway

aprelium · - Joined: 22 Mar 2002 Posts: 6800

TheLinker · - Joined: 05 Apr 2002 Posts: 165 Location: Oslo, Norway

Some of the error situations (like Error 200 with PHP) has more to do with how the scripts are programmed, rather than minor "bugs" within the Abyss webserver...

I've looked through several PHP scripts which all generate the Error 200... many of these scripts would not have generated this error if the programmer had used their PHP functions correctly. I did a simple rewrite in some of these scripts, and the error 200 went away.

Another thing... many of the PHP scripts is written using Apache and Linux, meaning that the programmer concentrate to make it work under these environments first... if the programmer have written the script correctly, it should also run under a other environments, like e.g. Windows...

But the environments are different... and some programmers makes use of functionality which is specific to their development environment... this can sometimes generate error situations when trying to run the same scripts under other webservers and operativ systems...

And in these error cases it's not a bug within Abyss webserver, but rather how the PHP scripts was developed.

Some of these errors may disappear as Aprelium continue to develope their webserver... but some errors will still remain... these errors may disappear as the script developers continues their work.

draxis · Guest

I belive that too many scripts are being written with only apache compatability in mind. But there's no way I'm going to drop abyss! Abyss is easy on memory and fast! VERY easy to use. I hear too many horror stories about apache to ever make the switch.

Every script seems to have two sets of installation instructions: first a 'normal' section and a separate section on how to get it working on apache...

After you jump into the abyss, you cant turn back! But if anyone has success with any web portals Im all ears.

(I'm having moderate success with myphpnuke now. Its installed porperly but it wont let me edit blocks! nothing major, Im guessing it has something to do with server-side includes, witch will be included in the next abyss release...cant wait!) :lol:

tobitobsucht · - Joined: 22 Apr 2003 Posts: 2

the question was for portals that do work with aws. not to find out which do not and why. i do have the same problems. it's either the php version or globals on or off or abyss not apache. but it's always one of those. usually it is not just the globals. and i haven't found a portal yet, that works. my suggestions to portal friends: install apache+php+mysql. it works best!
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Moxxnixx · - Joined: 21 Jun 2003 Posts: 1226 Location: Florida

I've got 3 of the best (imo) portals running on my Abyss Web Server.
Here they are:
http://www.downtimeclub.com (e107)
http://www.downtimeclub.com/moxxnixx (E-Xoops)
http://www.downtimeclub.com/html (myPHPNuke)
and I've had no problems installing any of them. Abyss handles them just fine.

I've tried a few others but e107 is my favorite. They have an extremely friendly
and helpful community. Tons of plug-ins and themes. It can be found here:
http://www.e107.org

:roll: :roll: JEEZ!!! I JUST NOTICED HOW OLD THIS POST IS !!! :roll: :roll:

goose · Posted: Sun Oct 05, 2003 12:00 pm Post subject:

and there are many others like mycoolphp very interesting .

just look at hotscripts and under php content management systems or portals.

hey jacob my eyes are tired. and my cows are pissed! :lol:
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test · - Joined: 27 May 2003 Posts: 9 Location: ragley

E107 works