danglie

Thanks to you, Bruce, it went smooth and quick. I did not have the problem Jayson had. I did have some graphics I was trying to upload to a theme that were denied permission. Support looked at them, fixed it all up.. cool. We do not know what happened for them to go screwy, it all ended well. I do not know about the "nuke" part of the path, Jayson. I am not using that software, is it? It sounds like somewhere a path got messed up? I would of uninstalled the whole thing and get a fresh upload of the program and tried it again. I am stubborn. So far, we haven't uploaded files for certain parts. No time with the "Sillydays" season. I hope you got things going. thanks again for all of your help, Debbi

Great idea to move it with scripting help. Thank you for the input. I sometimes get a bit literal with my questions. I will attempt this in the next few days and see what I get. Tuesday is my time at the torch, so it will have to happen before or after that. I will not give up my time for mangling hot glass. It should go fine. I will make a custom theme too. They have some great tutorials for doing that. Debbi

ftp password-cPanel password? (hitting head on desk) I can't find my password for that. I know, I will use the info email for that. I also downloaded the program Don mentioned. I have a little book with passwords, but those for both of my domains seem to be missing. (more sighs, cursing my red dye over blonde brain ) Thank you very much for the feedback. I am a bit nervous, just learning php and all of that. Question? I have the info I found in a TCH forum for redirecting mySQL connection so that the passwords and such isn't in public_html folder for security purposes. Where would that be changed or placed, if you know what tutorial I am talking about. I think it was called "How to set up your mySQL connection". I want to do this right. It sounds a bit I AM A SPAMMER, but I do not want to compromise the security of the site, files, etc. Debbi, learning by the seat of her levi's

I won't be able to start this until my days off next week. If the errors happen, I will let you know. I got their latest upgrade, smf_1-1-rc1, which had been determined stable. We shall see. I have went through every place I could for installation of "everything", how to's, etc. I printed out everything and saved copies to the hard drive for ol' cut-n-paste when needed. I am also reading it all right now in my spare time. Hopefully, that will help. Like most females, I tend to read the manual. If it goes ninnies-up, I will uninstall the whole mass and go for vBulletin, who has answered questions when asked and has viable demos for newbies to the format. I always go for companies that give good customer service when possible. That is why I picked this hosting service. You get a lot for your money. Unlike realestate, they do have the stated value. Grunge left their help forums. Unknown seems to be the one to ask now. Have you tried asking him? Debbi

Thanks for all of your input. I decided on SMF. There is too many good words about it. This is snitty, but the demo IPB sent me would not activate or anything. I know I could ask for another activation since that one didn't work. I like the input and help for SMF too. Again, thanks. Now to learn and play with the thing. Luckily the site is "bare". I will not be messing up a thing. Debbi

The forum will not have a lot of members. We have about 600 on the group list, (Yahoo-borg), with maybe a 100 that post. The boards will have areas not open to non-list membesr to see at all, boards with info that the members can add to, and non-members can read but not post. It will have content from the list, we are fiber artists. Not exactly a high-traffic group. The recipes get the most attention. One thing they would like is a small portion of our archives ona board in the private area. I have no clue about transferring them to the database, but I will figure that out eventually. So SMF is good for someone new to using forum software and php coding? Debbi

I am looking at the various forum software as of late. I am still learning php, (like I need to learn one more thing right now. ). I was between SMF, phpBB and IPB. Being new to php, which is best for someone who still does not "speak the language" fluently? SMF seems to be customizable enough, yet I do not know if I am up high enough on the learning curve to use it. I do not mind paying for good software, but why buy one if there is an excellent free program out there. I do know that you get what you pay for. I have two separate domains and accounts. One is my site and the other, (for the forum), is for a list group I am co-owner of. Both are Deluxe-size, which I am hoping has enough umph for a forum site. The site for the forum- I am wondering how we secure it from hackers? I remember reading something about putting certain pages of code outside of the public-html folder. Is this correct? I know I still have a lot to learn. Can someone advise what would be best for a newbie to php? Debbi

Thanks. Dada mail looks like it will fit the bill if I need to move the list to the list's site. I see that I can purchase a plan that serves what will be online mb-wise, yet can boost just the bandwidth to cover usage. I just need to remember how many kb's are in a gig, and I will be good to go. I never can remember that. Thanks again, Danglie

Does the mailing list use our site's bandwidth? I have a list on the yahooborg. It has over 500 very chatty fiber artists on it. Messages can come through at 200+ a day at times. If I move the list over to Mailman, will I need to upgrade the bandwidth for the site when I sign-up the list with it's own domain and have the site hosted through TCH? Thanks for any heads-up that I need to know about, Danglie