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Hope this helps!

Looking for early Ning migrants

Installation and Configuration


While I'd love to say "Jamroom is 100% made for everyone", I'd be lying. To run your own Jamroom site you're going to need to be at least a little bit technically familiar with running your own website, including:

- using FTP to upload and download files to your server
- managing your site
- understanding the basics of HTML and CSS (this is very helpful)

If those things are areas you're not familiar with or comfortable with, you'll be best suited by sticking with Ning or another SAAS system where they do all the hosting, configuration, customization, etc. for you.

Hope this helps!
updated by @brian: 12/29/14 09:23:54AM

Looking for early Ning migrants

Installation and Configuration


Ignore all the Ning modules at this point (except the importer) - I will have new versions out ASAP (hopefully next 2-3 days) that should work like you are familiar to them working. Right now things are not likely to work like you would expect.

Thanks!
updated by @brian: 12/29/14 09:23:54AM

importing large sites issue (i know pauls gone)

Installation and Configuration


Just an FYI that I don't develop on Litespeed, so you're on your own if you want to use that as your web server...

If you want me to check it out, I can definitely do that, but it would be tomorrow in the early morning - if that's OK shoot me an email at support [at] jamroom [dot] net and I can check out your server config.

Hope this helps!
updated by @brian: 12/29/14 09:23:54AM

Vimeo and SoundCloud Consumer Keys

Installation and Configuration


Right on - glad to hear that

Thanks!

Vimeo and SoundCloud Consumer Keys

Installation and Configuration


You'll want to create Vimeo and SoundCloud accounts - in your account settings on their websites I believe you will find those keys.

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Important questions about Ning "Groups"

Installation and Configuration


Well - having just posted all that I did above, I believe I am coming back around to having to make it work the way it is (more or less). I've just spent the last hour going in to all the places that I believe I would need to modify to make the groups be a "wrapper" around our other modules, and it's just too many changes at too many places that I'm not comfortable with.

So for now my immediate goal is to get a groups module together that has the functionality of Ning groups in Ning 2.0. I want to get that all working and looking good, and then after that we can look at expanding the feature set of the groups.

The good news is I should be able to get that done more quickly since a lot of the work has already been done.

So I apologize for going back and forth on what needs to be done, but as I learn more about how the groups work and their features I've had to re-adjust my thinking

Thanks!
updated by @brian: 12/29/14 09:23:54AM

importing large sites issue (i know pauls gone)

Installation and Configuration

First up, make sure your keep alive seconds is set to "1" - no higher. router.php is the main JR router, so it's involved in every request - so all that means is that a request was continuing to run. If you want to STOP a JR process you need to bounce Apache:

service apache2 restart

I don't know that the importer is doing, but it sounds like the modal window is getting disconnected because your server isn't allowing enough connections (which could happen if you set your keep alive timeout really high).

I've sysadmined for a very long time, and have setup more Unix/Linux servers than I can remember, and if you setup a server like I do:

https://www.jamroom.net/brian/documentation/guides

even a lowly little 512mb server will work awesome. If you have a dedicated server then you just have it configured wrong, as you should be able to handle thousands of simultaneous users.
updated by @brian: 12/29/14 09:23:54AM

Important questions about Ning "Groups"

Installation and Configuration


Yes - the User Comments module has already been updated with a config option to allow you to use the WYSIWYG editor - the forum will be updated as well.

Hope this helps!
updated by @brian: 12/29/14 09:23:54AM

Important questions about Ning "Groups"

Installation and Configuration


This is on purpose here - having run a very active forum for over 11 years, all the extra "fluff" in a forum tends to distract users from focusing on the content of the issue. For example, a lot of forums offer "signatures" and other things like that for users - 99% of those are used for users to link to all sorts of offsite places, etc - things that have no bearing on content of the forum.

I know not everyone agrees, which is why that is all supported if you want it - it's just not enabled in our forum.

Despite it looking a bit "vanilla", there are some cool things you can do - like check out this inlined YouTube video:

Logic Pro X Tutorials - Make a song in logic (Knocking on Heaven's Door)

all I did was paste the URL in. URLs are automatically linked up:

https://www.jamroom.net/ning-to-jamroom/forum/announcements/16341/important-questions-about-ning-groups#last

I can make my text be bold or italics or create lists or

We've learned a TON running a forum for many, many years and 90% of the "extras" that people want aren't used by the majority of users, and almost always have no bearing on the discussion at hand.

Just my 2 cents
updated by @brian: 12/29/14 09:23:54AM