what software does this forum use?

[summoner]

and does it run on linux? thinking of adding a BBS onto hotperthcars.net for various conversations etc.

[Haroc]

http://www.vbulletin.com as for the rest, i got no clue :)

[Fabio's CV8]

Yeah it runs on linux.

[summoner]

thanks for the info. and no its not going to be a competitor to ls1.com.au its not intended as that, just somewhere for perth people(and interstate) can talk cars, as well as off topic etc

[Fabio's CV8]

I don't think it has to run on Linux.

See if you can contact someone on www.vbulletin.com

[V8BRUTE]

Hey Summoner, you can take all your mates from www.wog.com.au with you :stick:

[Sidewindr]

vBulletin is PHP and all the data is stored in a mysql database.

It's not hard to set up if you know ya way around linux.

[Wazza]

Originally posted by summoner
and does it run on linux? thinking of adding a BBS onto hotperthcars.net for various conversations etc.

As long as you have some sort of php/sql it will :) And from what i remember vbulletin has some fairly decent yearly licencing fees, a good and free alternative is http://www.phpbb.com/ :) Fairly similar in what you can do to vbulletin....

[V82xist]

I think you'll find it's just as easy to set up on a server running a Microsoft Operating System as PHP4 and MySQL are both free and compatable to download for Linux and Microsoft. I build sites using PHP4/MySQL on a microsoft machine but host on Linux box.