How to host a forum on Fedora

[karlp at ourldsfamily.com]

On Thu, February 22, 2007 5:07 pm, Rick Stevens wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-02-22 at 13:45 -0800, Bret Stern wrote:
>> I would like to use one of my servers to host
>> a forum on machinery.
>>
>> Is there a package with Fedora which allows this?
>
> Depends on which type of forum you want:
>
> Bulletin boards: phpbb is one of the best (requires Apache and PHP)

What does fedoraforum.org use? If it's phpbb, I may give it a look, other than
figuring out how to start a new thread takes too much effort...

>
> Mailing list: majordomo (old school) and listman, of course (that which
> runs THIS list).

I use majordomo and it's pretty nice, but mailman is something that comes on
FC/RH servers. What's listman? Is it a replacement for mailman of which I'm
blissfully unaware?

>
> Wikis: Probably "wikiserver" is the one to use.  It's stand alone
> (includes its own web server built-in).  Here's a link:
>
>         http://sourceforge.net/projects/wikiserver/

How annoying is it to have this running with Apache, or is it even possible?

You can tell I've done no thinking on this and even less research...

Karl

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