From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 10 12:09:07 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A7151065671 for ; Tue, 10 Jun 2008 12:09:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rvm@CBORD.com) Received: from smssmtp.cbord.com (mx1.cbord.com [24.39.174.11]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D3E78FC25 for ; Tue, 10 Jun 2008 12:09:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rvm@CBORD.com) X-AuditID: ac1f0165-0000133400000330-47-484e6f125307 Received: from Email.cbord.com ([10.1.1.100]) by smssmtp.cbord.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.1830); Tue, 10 Jun 2008 08:09:54 -0400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5 Content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2008 08:08:11 -0400 Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20080609213118.GA21965@thought.org> X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: what ype of app? port of "*free*"-service app? Thread-Index: AcjKeEv7MZBAnMt1SkWGVuwwFpexHwAeZp4g References: <20080609213118.GA21965@thought.org> From: "Bob McConnell" To: "Gary Kline" , "FreeBSD Mailing List" X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAA== Cc: Subject: RE: what ype of app? port of "*free*"-service app? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2008 12:09:07 -0000 On Behalf Of Gary Kline: >=20 > This is a bit hard to figure out how to phrase, so please bear > with me. I want to put-back a BBS/forum type app somewhere on my > site so that members of my writing group can continue to help me > with their suggestions and edits of my Jottings project. Some=20 > people are taking a break for the summer, &c. >=20 > I've had PHPBB up a few times, and lost it as many times for > different reasons. It takes about an hour to set up one of these > ``forum'' applications; I don't know about the others. =20 >=20 > Does anyone have a best-win/solution as to which port/package to > use? Or would it be just as good to go with a canned > (javascript or other) app? >=20 > Again: the nutshell is to allow my fellow writers to comment-on, > edit, suggest, critique, flame, whatever, my jotting meditation. > [for now, the URL would not be published.] Have you looked at any wiki software? I have Dokuwiki running on an Apache server here at the office as an idea and collaboration incubator. There were over 1100 pages created on it the first year. It's all written in PHP and was quite simple to set up. You can get it at . Bob McConnell