Dave wrote:
On 10/23/07, Ross S. W. Walker rwalker@medallion.com wrote:
Dave wrote:
I need to quickly setup a temporary BBS/message board
system for the
fires in San Diego. We just want people to post if they have rooms available. So I'm looking for a a very simple and easy to
get running
BBS system. Any suggestions?
Forum style or Wiki style?
If it is wiki style then mediawiki is a good choice, stable fairly easy to setup, needs a mysql or postgres backend database, it's at http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki
If it is more of a Forum style check out SMF at http://www.simplemachines.org/
either or as long as I can get it running in 30 minutes or so. I recall having one a number of years ago that used the native DB on all linux boxes. If I recall it used only 2 or so html pages and a flat DB. Both of those seem a little overkill for what I'm looking for.
If you go with Fedora Core then mediawiki is included in the 'extras' repository. Do a yum install of mediawiki, it brings in mysql and apache as dependencies and does most of the setup for you. The rest can be configured on the media wiki setup page.
That will probably bring you closest to a 30 minute setup.
There may be some tweaking on getting it customized, but the biggest problem is how to handle registering, if it allows anonymous posting then it'll be spammed off the map in a day.
Given enough time all software tends towards feature bloat.
-Ross
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