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Ampps on mac, additional configuration info

Installation and Configuration

Just updated my local dev server and found a couple of things that you need to do to get Jamroom (5.2.12) running on Ampps (2.5) on Mac (Yosemite).

***Edit*** Installing Jamroom on Ampps on Mac is now documented here:
https://www.jamroom.net/ultrajam/documentation/guides/2146/installing-ampps-locally-on-mac-os-x

Installing Ampps on Mac is easy, you just drag it to the Apps directory, but it won't run Jamroom until you do the following tweaks to the default configuration:

1. Enable ctype and iconv extensions:
In the Ampps control panel, click PHP, then Php Extension.
Enable ctype.so and iconv.so, then save.

2. Enable mod_deflate:
In the Ampps control panel, click Apache, then Configuration.
In the configuration file, search for mod_deflate, and uncomment the following line.
LoadModule deflate_module modules/mod_deflate.so
Then save.

Restart Apache from the Ampps control panel. You should now be able to run Jamroom.

Note: The above is true for php5.5, not sure about other versions. There is currently a Yosemite bug in ampps, to upgrade to php5.5 you need to start apache from the command line rather than from the control panel. The other php versions will then appear in Ampps control center > PHP > Change php version.
This is the command to paste into Terminal:
(stop apache first if it is already running)

It's a Mac, so one more thing: System check will show that ffmpeg is not working. For each Jamroom site you have installed you can replace the file /modules/jrCore/tools/ffmpeg with the relevant download from here: http://ffmpegmac.net/
You will find your sites in /Applications/AMPPS/www/

***Edit - I've updated the info above, so you can ignore the thread below.
updated by @ultrajam: 12/04/14 04:02:54PM

Connect with jrEmbed?

GoogleMaps

Hi Michael,

Yes it would be useful, let me take a look at this over the weekend and see if it's possible

Woh way too many fields

GoogleMaps


Ah, yes. You need to create a googlemaps field, not change the core location field to be googlemaps.

If I were you I'd keep the location field so that the address or venue name still show for the gig.

Then label the NEW event_googlemaps field "Map" and the help "Please enter an address if you want a map to show in your listing".

Woh way too many fields

GoogleMaps

I don't think it can be a freak occurrence. Is there another module which might be interfering?

I've just tried this on a fully updated site which has never had events added before. It created only the one field in the Form Designer (both on the create and update forms).

I then created an event and added a googlemaps address in the single field, and checked back to the form designer and there is still only a single field.

JrComments Request

Suggestions

For me it improves readability on both slashdot and theguardian.

I am more likely to read an "important" (important or hilarious) top level comment in the first hundred or two of top level comments than in the first thousand or two of unnested comments.

Slashdot hides threads according to user "votes", theguardian hides nested comments after the first few, you need to click to read the rest of the thread, they only do one level of nesting.

I wasn't keen on theguardian's transition to threaded comments at first, but it does actually work better for me. Sure, I miss some great comments because I don't open a nested thread, but there are usually thousands of comments on articles I am interested in - time is the main factor in determining whether I see all the interesting comments or not. I run out of time, rarely read more than 2 pages of comments.

So collapsing threads does actually get me reading more of the comments - I am ignoring nested comments rather than scanning them, I am scanning top level comments rather than (usually) less relevant responses to a comment. Now that I am used to the system I can tell more or less if I want to click to open a thread for further reading

Slashdot (with it's community modded closing of threads and multiple levels of nesting) seems to work for me as well. I click to open less threads than on the guardian, tend to rely on the community reputation modding thing.
updated by @ultrajam: 10/23/14 02:12:09PM

Woh way too many fields

GoogleMaps

Can you show me a screenshot of the create form with all the extra fields?

Woh way too many fields

GoogleMaps

Is your screenshot of the database tool view?

Woh way too many fields

GoogleMaps

Let me check it out here. Back in 10 mins.

Woh way too many fields

GoogleMaps

Which version are you using?

Woh way too many fields

GoogleMaps

How did you get that to happen? I haven't seen that before.

There should be one field only in the create form, plus a map.

You create one field named *_googlemaps in the form designer and it doesn't create further fields for you.