Running php portals at my hosting provider?

[grenness]

Sorry for bothering you with a basic question.

I have an account with www.webhost4life.com which includes PHP and
MySQL on an IIS 6.0/Win2k3 Server.

I have succeeded in installing phpbb, and it works great. Will I be
able to install all other sorts of php-based solutions like portals
etc, or do some/most demand that I have my own physical web server
which I can configure and tweak (maybe preferring for instance
Linux/Apache?).

The reason I'm asking is because I've been asked by our local Marina
where I'm a member, if I could help them create a homepage where they
themselves could post news and articles, and my idea was to use some
sort of free portal/web publishing system based on php running on my
hosting account (I appreciate any tips, although I meant to browse
around myself!)

Thanks,

Christopher
--

[carlmckie@gmail.com]

Re: Running php portals at my hosting provider?

If you don't want to use your own code, goto a site such as
www.hotscripts.com and download some scripts depending on what you
want. They should work.

[Anonymous]

Re: Running php portals at my hosting provider?

grenness wrote:[color=blue]
> Sorry for bothering you with a basic question.
>
> I have an account with www.webhost4life.com which includes PHP and
> MySQL on an IIS 6.0/Win2k3 Server.
>
> I have succeeded in installing phpbb, and it works great. Will I be
> able to install all other sorts of php-based solutions like portals
> etc, or do some/most demand that I have my own physical web server[/color]

Yes.
[color=blue]
> which I can configure and tweak (maybe preferring for instance
> Linux/Apache?).[/color]

Some might, but most probably not since they were ment to be usable on
standard webaccounts with PHP and MySQL. BTW, you can also change some
Apache settings with .htaccess files.
[color=blue]
> The reason I'm asking is because I've been asked by our local Marina
> where I'm a member, if I could help them create a homepage where they
> themselves could post news and articles, and my idea was to use some
> sort of free portal/web publishing system based on php running on my
> hosting account (I appreciate any tips, although I meant to browse
> around myself!)[/color]

Geeklog and PHPNuke are both very good. You can't go wrong with one of
these two.

Bye!

[null@nowhere.com]

Re: Running php portals at my hosting provider?

Well, I have installed PHP-Nuke on a WIMP server (Windows
2000/IIS/MySQL/PHP) just recently, and the basic modules work fine.
And I have Mambo on a test server, running Win98, Apache, MySQL, and
PHP. I expect it to work on the WIMP server, but haven't tested it
yet. But usually, the open source project has to be designing to
support both IIS and Apache servers, since they do not operate exactly
alike (I think it is the mod_rewrite module that has to be
considered). So you just have to test.

We are testing PHPLists, and it does not work "out of the box", so to
speak. There is guidance in the forums for this package that tell you
how you can modify the code, but it remains to be decided if this is
acceptable, since it would make quick upgrades very problematic,



On 26 Feb 2005 16:18:44 -0800, "grenness" <grenness@my-deja.com>
wrote:
[color=blue]
>Sorry for bothering you with a basic question.
>
>I have an account with www.webhost4life.com which includes PHP and
>MySQL on an IIS 6.0/Win2k3 Server.[/color]