That weird e-mail that you can’t see…
If you happen to FTP into your mailbox and see what appears to be an e-mail that says:
This text is part of the internal format of your mail folder, and is not a real message. It is created automatically by the mail system software. If deleted, important folder data will be lost, and it will be re-created with the data reset to initial values.
Please don’t delete it! It really is part of the mailbox, and deleting it could cause problems.
Getting around
- perl: /usr/bin/perl
- sendmail: /usr/lib/sendmail
- Your server Path (for domain accounts):
/home/username/public_html -
- URL: http://yourdomain.whatever/
- Your server Path (for subdomain accounts):
/home/blog/public_html/subdomainname -
- URL: http://subdomainname.bloghouse.net/
The paths to Perl and Sendmail are common defaults. You should rarely have to change either.
Note: If you set up your own subdomain, your path would be like the subdomain accounts above, except you would substitute your username for ‘blog’.
Request for Recommendations
I’m using WordPress to power the front page at least partly because it’s very easy to set-up. However; there may be some others on GPL that may be more attractive to an end user, even if the setup is more confusing.
Drupal and geeklog, for instance, both look very complex. Has anyone used them as an end user and liked them? How difficult are they once set up?
Nucleus looks interesting but I seem to have problems with its zip file and my ancient version of Winzip (I also got errors on an old PKunzip DOS attempt). Anyone have a link to a nice, simple, tar.gz version?
Anyone blogging on anything else that you’d recommend?
Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes
If this move works, you’ll be seeing this on the front page. You’ll also be able to leave comments, questions, suggestions and such, thanks to a program known as “Word Press“, which is on GPL and is thus legal for me to use here. Runs nicely, too.
So, we have at least one GPL blogging software I know Blog House and I can fully support! Since it’s the ‘official’ branch from b2 (cafelog), I’m fairly certain that one should also run fine here.
The information that was on the front page is now on the ‘About’ page, which you will find a link to on the navigation bar immediately below the top banner.
I’ll be starting a set of FAQs, which will be posted initially on the front page, so everyone can comment and suggest.
As you’ll note, we do have some new links on the right. There are more coming but they aren’t quite ‘live’ yet.
