Acity : Open Source Web-Based Discussion Tool

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Description

Agora is a web-based, threaded discussion tool. It's *fast*, very intuitive to use, was beta-tested by more than a hundred people and is now of professional quality. Agora remembers each user's preferences, and allows unread-only browsing. It offers the ability to manage several different groups with different themes, forums and administrators for each group.

Maybe, the screenshots tell more than I can in a few words...

(Acity was previously named "Agora". I have change its name because Agora was already used on SourceForge. The source tree is still called "Agora")

News

28 January 2000     First public version of Acity.
(Creation of this page, download availability, and CVS tree on SourceForge)

Screenshots

 
for a standard user :

screenshot00 - Home Page
screenshot00 - User Preferences
screenshot00 - Inside a forum (1)
screenshot00 - Inside a forum (2)
screenshot00 - Inside a forum (3)
screenshot00 - Searching...
screenshot00 - Posting a new message...

for an administrator :

screenshot00 - Home Page
screenshot00 - User Preferences
screenshot00 - Inside a forum
screenshot00 - Preferences for a Section
screenshot00 - General (Group) Preferences

for a top-administrator :

screenshot00 - General (Group) Preferences

Download

You can found the latest stable version here.

Developper can found the latest tarball from CVS tree here. Please have a look at the developper section for more informations.

Installation

We assume you feel good with Mysql, Apache and mod_perl.

Requirement :

- Perl5 (5.004x or upper recommended),
- Apache 1.3.x,
- mod_perl 1.21,
- mod_ssl 2.5.x (OPTIONAL, increase security),
- an SQL database, like mySQL.

Take the latest version of Agora (lokk at the download section above). Installation : Read the 'README' and 'INSTALL' files inside the distribution.

You can found more informations in the 'CHANGES' file in the distrib. (The TODO file is included in the CHANGES)

FAQ

Not FAQ yet. There was no question until now :-)

Developpement

You will need CVS from SourceGear in order to participate on the developpement of Agora.

On SourceForge, you need to have the client of SSH1 previously installed.

Anonymous CVS access

Get the CVS tree as an anonymous user : 
    cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.acity.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/acity login

Registred User Access

First register on SourceForge first, that's free... :-)

You should have "ssh1" installed to acces the CVS server on SourceForge. 

    0. Set the environnement variables
    # (REM: "miles" is my (philippe.froidevaux) login on sourceforge, change it...)
    % setenv CVSROOT miles@cvs.acity.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/acity
    % setenv CVS_RSH ssh1

    1. Import Agora from server on your local workstation
    % cd /usr/local      # directory "agora" will be automaticaly created)
    % cvs checkout agora # or "cvs co agora"

    2. Export changes to cvs server
    % cvs add my_file.c                  # need "commit"
    % cvs remove old_file.c              # need "commit"
    % cvs commit -r 1.4.1                # commit as version '1.4.1"
    % cvs commit -m "This fix a problem" # commit, and set a commentar.
    % cvs diff file.c                    # show (only show) the diff between local and server

    3. Update your local copy (import from CVS server)
    % cvs update

Download latest CVS tarball

You can find it here.

Additional tools and documentation

Look at the SourceForge Documentation Project.

About

AUTHOR is pf. For question about Acity, please conact me here.

COPYRIGHTED by pf, © 2000.

LICENSE is GPL. View the full text here.

BETA-TEST done by a *lot* of people : ALF, Benji, Bubu, C1S, Doshpy, Eclipse, Fumus, Gabeast, Highslash, Icecat, Kiske, Mandarino, Mandelbrot, Marati, Muad'Dib, MulderFox, Naya, Nikko, PIng, Schmourz, SgtPerry, Shimroar, Spookie, Sproutnik, Tempus, Tonio, Trashman, Winged Death, WMAN, Yama, etc... (sorry for whose I forgot...) Thanks a lot to all this persons for bug repport and many great suggestions.

BUG REPPORT AND PATCHES : send me all patch and bug repport here. Look for more help in the developpement section.

SUPPORT : No support. Commercial support avalaible if I have enough time, please ask me.

Last updated on January 27, 2000 by pf.