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Originally Posted by chrsschb
There is no pre-made package consolidating all these components that I know of. I, as well as most other server admins, set up all of our features manually.
Granted a lot of the stuff these days is drag and drop, edit a ini file, hit go, type of installs, they can still take some troubleshooting to get working properly depending on how your host has everything setup. Plus getting them to communicate with each other isn't always so simple.
I have a phpbb forum, with a portal front page, char mover, magelo clone, allakhazam clone, and wiki for my site. Others have server status, players online, ventrilo status, etc on their sites.
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I understand. I think that is what I need to do also. I installed Ampps just now and that gives me filezilla, a webserver, phpMyAdmin, php, perl 5.10, and mysql 5.5. All of which should be compatible with my server. I am going to recompile it now and hope it works again, LOL.
I had corrupted the database on my dev server but fortunately I did not lose much work as I had backed it up to my regular server recently! I could not do a restore from my full db dump to a SQL file because some of the tables don't match up with a fresh install. Now I know to back up certain tables separately like characters, accounts, npc's, and items. LOL!
I gotta remember to back up more often.
(Especially while I am learning all this stuff - mostly the hard way).
I would like to have the front page, char mover, magelo clone, AllaClone, and wiki for my site too. It will come with time. I looked over some sites and I really like the webpages made with Joomla so I think I will probably use that with my Ampps Apache Webserver to make my front end page.
I have seen most of that stuff available separately but I had been using a Uniserver install for my server and had trouble integrating them. Now I think it will be better with the webserver.
I am having a blast learning and/or re-learning all this stuff even though sometimes it gets frustrating when it doesn't come together right away.
Now I think I just need to find some ebooks like Teach yourself to write perl scripts, SQL Query Refresher course, and Joomla for dummies, etc.
Thank you for posting your reply. I always appreciate the support you folks give me here. You all are Good people
Good On Ya!