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    From Ayex@1:103/705 to All on Mon Jan 18 16:45:43 2021
    Hi,

    I am trying to configure webv4 on a clean SBBS install. I chagned the directory for the root to webv4/root but it just presents a blank page. I have read documentation from the wiki saying an install script needs to be run, but I think that might be old info as no install script was on the system. Or maybe I am wrong.

    Can someone point me in the right direction? Thanks,

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  • From Digital Man@1:103/705 to Ayex on Mon Jan 18 14:05:42 2021
    Re: webv4 config
    By: Ayex to All on Mon Jan 18 2021 04:45 pm

    Hi,

    I am trying to configure webv4 on a clean SBBS install. I chagned the directory for the root to webv4/root but it just presents a blank page. I have read documentation from the wiki saying an install script needs to be run, but I think that might be old info as no install script was on the system. Or maybe I am wrong.

    No install script should be needed.

    Can someone point me in the right direction? Thanks,

    It should look liks this in your sbbs.ini:
    RootDirectory=../webv4/root
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  • From Ayex@1:103/705 to Digital Man on Mon Jan 18 19:46:51 2021
    Re: webv4 config
    By: Digital Man to Ayex on Mon Jan 18 2021 02:05 pm

    It should look liks this in your sbbs.ini:
    RootDirectory=../webv4/root

    Hi Rob,

    thats exactly what i have in sbbs.ini.

    not sure why its not working.

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  • From Ayex@1:103/705 to Ayex on Mon Jan 18 20:08:40 2021
    It’s because I didn’t create the guest account. There is an error in the log saying no guest account.

    On 13:46 18/01 , Ayex wrote:

    Re: webv4 config
    By: Digital Man to Ayex on Mon Jan 18 2021 02:05 pm

    It should look liks this in your sbbs.ini:
    RootDirectory=../webv4/root

    Hi Rob,

    thats exactly what i have in sbbs.ini.

    not sure why its not working.

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  • From Dream Master@1:103/705 to Ayex on Mon Jan 18 22:42:28 2021
    Re: webv4 config
    By: Ayex to Digital Man on Mon Jan 18 2021 07:46 pm

    thats exactly what i have in sbbs.ini.

    not sure why its not working.

    Now, I'm not going to make this a recommendation or even a piece of advice, I will say that the /sbbs/web directory creates grief if it already exists. The removal of it and the installation of webv4 from GitLab will solve the majority of your problems. A good backup is always in order too. But, I'll let digital man make the final call on this one.

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  • From echicken@1:103/705 to Ayex on Tue Jan 19 10:46:32 2021
    Re: Re: webv4 config
    By: Ayex to Ayex on Mon Jan 18 2021 20:08:40

    It's because I didn't create the guest account. There is an error in the log saying no guest account.

    You can have a separate guest account just for the web UI if you want. Create a user on your BBS, give it whatever access you want web guests to have, and then in ctrl/modopts.ini -> [web], set the 'guest' value to the username of this user.

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  • From echicken@1:103/705 to Dream Master on Tue Jan 19 10:52:12 2021
    Re: webv4 config
    By: Dream Master to Ayex on Mon Jan 18 2021 22:42:28

    Now, I'm not going to make this a recommendation or even a piece of advice, I will say that the /sbbs/web directory creates grief if it already exists. The removal of it and the installation of webv4 from

    The web/ directory doesn't hurt anything by being there, and there's no need to remove it in order to switch to webv4. (There's no harm in removing it if you don't need it anymore though.)

    If the web/ directory was causing you trouble, deleting it is unlikely to solve anything. There's likely a path misconfigured somewhere (in sbbs.ini maybe).

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  • From Dream Master@1:103/705 to echicken on Tue Jan 19 12:04:29 2021
    Re: webv4 config
    By: echicken to Dream Master on Tue Jan 19 2021 10:52 am

    The web/ directory doesn't hurt anything by being there, and there's no
    need
    to remove it in order to switch to webv4. (There's no harm in removing it
    if
    you don't need it anymore though.)

    If the web/ directory was causing you trouble, deleting it is unlikely to solve anything. There's likely a path misconfigured somewhere (in sbbs.ini maybe).

    Like I said, just something I did. I found one hook to /sbbs/web and took care of it through a quick change.

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  • From echicken@1:103/705 to Dream Master on Tue Jan 19 16:16:22 2021
    Re: webv4 config
    By: Dream Master to echicken on Tue Jan 19 2021 12:04:29

    Like I said, just something I did. I found one hook to /sbbs/web and took

    Yep, not picking on you - just wanted it to be clear to others reading this that nuking the original web directory is not required. (Of course they can remove it if/when they're sure they don't need it anymore.)

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  • From Dream Master@1:103/705 to echicken on Tue Jan 19 17:13:47 2021
    Re: webv4 config
    By: echicken to Dream Master on Tue Jan 19 2021 04:16 pm

    Yep, not picking on you - just wanted it to be clear to others reading this that nuking the original web directory is not required. (Of course they can remove it if/when they're sure they don't need it anymore.)

    Never thought you were picking on me. Always make backups otherwise you may end up starting from scratch.

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  • From Ayex@1:103/705 to echicken on Wed Jan 20 14:45:19 2021
    Re: Re: webv4 config
    By: echicken to Ayex on Tue Jan 19 2021 10:46 am

    You can have a separate guest account just for the web UI if you want. Create a user on your BBS, give it whatever access you want web guests to have, and then in ctrl/modopts.ini -> [web], set the 'guest' value to the username of this user.

    Cool!

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