HFS and wiki / forums

rawbanana · **on:** July 07, 2006, 07:32:38 AM

Sorry for the newbie question...

I know most wiki and forums both require php (which won't be supported by HFS in the near future), but how much work for me would it be to host a wiki or forum? Are there non-php based forums/wikis?

If I wanted to host a wiki or forum on my computer (which is already running HFS), would it cause problems? Or can I use HFS to host the HTML pages and install some PHP program to run the php script for forum/wiki? Would having HFS making running a wiki/forum easier?

I found a tutorial for Mediawiki: http://www.lifehacker.com/software/top/geek-to-live--set-up-your-personal-wikipedia-163707.php

Or do I need to install a separate set of tools like Wamp and to run the whole thing? From what I have researched, the Apache / Wamp tools are super complicated and command-line oriented (very unuser friendly)...

Can anyone suggest a simple solution or where I can find it? Thanks!

I'm going through http://www.wikimatrix.org to see what wikis are out there but its taking a long time. Does someone just know of something that works? And maybe if someone knows of a forum program that runs on HFS? Or am I just wasting my time?

rejetto · **Reply #1 on:** July 07, 2006, 11:05:03 AM

you can't use hfs
wamp or similar is required
or... just buy an host service, there are very cheap solutions.
also free services like www.ahplace.com

MarkV · **Reply #2 on:** July 08, 2006, 10:29:30 PM

Forums/Wikis mostly run on PHP, but I have seen a few forums using Perl...

Perl forums use no database (SQL) like PHP based forums, they use flatfiles.
They are usually much easier to install than PHP forums.

Links:

Perl
Get Perl here
YaBB, a Perl based forum - Open Source

Don't know about HFS and Perl though...

MarkV

rejetto · **Reply #3 on:** July 09, 2006, 11:57:45 AM

no language is possible in HFS, because all rely on CGI

MarkV · **Reply #4 on:** July 10, 2006, 01:36:28 AM

I gave the links not especially for HFS.
ATM the best HTTP server for CGI/PHP I can think of is Apache. I provided the Perl links because it's easier to set up than PHP/MySQL. Just not (yet) with HFS.

MarkV

rawbanana · **Reply #5 on:** July 10, 2006, 01:48:31 AM

Thanks for the replies!

I'll try and see if I can get something working. I could always pay for a service but wheres the challenge and learning experience in that?