Slash / Slashcode On Tch?

[75th Trombone]

So I was thinking about messing around with Slash for a project I'm working on. I looked at its installation guide. I know I don't have to worry about MySQL or Perl or any of that, but I'm still guessing that I would need root to have a remote possibility of making Slash work.

 

If anyone can confirm or contradict this from firsthand knowledge, I'd appreciate it, because I really don't want to trial-and-error this one. :s

 

Thanks,

SFT

[borfast]

I never used Slash but I know it's a complex beast.

I don't know if it needs root to be installed, though...

 

Moving for organization.

[TCH-Rick]

From looking at the docs on installation it appears that the program requires a daemon to be started that would run on the server. This would not be possible on a shared server.

[MikeJ]

Slashcode is a bit of a nightmare. Your only real options are to get a dedicated server or VPS of your own where you have root access, or find a host that provides slashcode preinstalled for you (TCH does not, and we don't plan to). It is not real friendly in shared environments.

 

And just to confirm, slashcode will not run on TCH shared servers. Specifically, we do not provide mod_perl, and we don't allow shared hosting clients to run their own daemons (services).