Questions about ipanel I cannot find in their support docs

[stonerocket]

I just purchased Ipanel from Ihostdev with the intent to use the post2host module.

In the install docs it does not mention anything about what code to edit within phpbb2, so how would I go about setting it up? wheres no code?

And it also mentions new forum, can it not be an existing forum?



Post-for-Hosting RPC

In iPanel, click Post for Hosting, then click New Forum.

To enable remote post-for-hosting support, just create a new package that uses the forum you just created

At this point im still waiting for the license to be activated so ive not even got into the admin panel yet.

[~ServerPoint~]

Wait till you have that activated and I would recommend you to ask the same question on the PHPBB support forums.

[MicGoogle]

To save you from the harsh critism of Ryan the software developer, I'm going to go ahead and help you..

funny enough i remember last time you asked a question like this and i helped you out haha its nice for me to help you out again..

well here i go..

First, there is NO need to edit phpBB2 at all! Do not edit anything in phpBB2! You just need the forum mysql database + password!

Second, It can be any forum, exisiting or new forum, it checks it automatically, it doesn't matter if its existent or not..

I'm guessing you plan on using the RPC since your forum is hosted on a external server?
If your forum is on the SAME SERVER as the iPanel script then there is NO NEED to setup RPC!

Let me know if you plan on using RPC, and i can help you more closely with that since that is a bit long..

ALSO MAKE SURE YOU READ THE INSTALLATION DOCUMENT before opening a ticket..
They get very very pissed not so happy when you don't read the docs or knowledgebase and ask a question.. (I believe they're a 2-manned company)

Anyhow, i'd be glad to help you the whole way, i asked every single question you did and learned so happy to help you out..


pssh i asked you last time stonerocket should hire me hahaa

[stonerocket]

Thanx MicGoogle, its appreciated.
Yes the forum is on a remote server.
Alll I have to do now is wait for Ryan as the license key I was given is not working.
http://stonerocket.co.uk/host/ redirects back to Ihostdev

I always need help, whenever theres some work that needs doing on the free hosting service I run most of the staff members shy away.

[MicGoogle]

First about your license key.. The system automatically generates it..
However you must put in a VALID IP and url to where ipanel is installed
sometimes if you set the url to http://yoursite.com/ipanel and you try to access it http://www.yoursite.com/ipanel it will not work you need to access the url you set it to in your client panel.



Remote Procedure Call (RPC) functionality
for remote ads and remote file scanning
Copy the "rpc" directory from your iPanel directory to the remote server.- Be sure to put it somewhere under a valid web root.

On the remote server, edit /rpc/conf.inc.php and set the API_KEY setting to a long (32+ letters) password.- This is used as an access key to ensure that only iPanel can remotely this server.

In the iPanel administration area, click Servers, then choose a server type and click Create.

Fill out all of the fields with appropriate values.- For “RPC URL”, enter the URL to the "rpc" folder on the remote server
Example: http://www.other-server.com/rpc/
and for “RPC Key”, enter the value you chose for API_KEY in step 2 above.

At this point, the RPC subsystem is configured and ready to use.

To enable remote prohibited file scanning, just turn on the prohibited file scanning feature in iPanel and it will automatically scan the remote server.

To enable remote forced ads, two additional steps are required.- On the remote server:

a. Inside the "rpc" directory you created in step 1 above, you'll find the directory labeled forcedads/data/.- Make sure the web server has write access to this directory by setting the chmod to either 0770, or 0777.

b. Setup a cron job that runs as root, which will update your Apache configuration and restart Apache at regular intervals.- This cron job must execute the following command:
php -q /path/to/rpc/forcedads/cronjob.php

where /path/to/rpc/ is the path to the RPC directory created in step 1
above.- This cron job should run at the exact same interval as the forced-ads cron job on the main iPanel server, otherwise the ads will become out-of-sync.

At this point, remote ads are now configured and ready to use.- iPanel will automatically contact each remote server during its own forced-ads cron job and provide the updated ad header/footer files and account lists to the remote servers.-


Post-for-Hosting RPC
Copy the "rpc" directory from your iPanel directory to the remote (forum) server.- Be sure to put it somewhere under a valid web root.

On the remote server, edit rpc/conf.inc.php and set the API_KEY setting to a long (32+ letters) password.- This is used as an access key to ensure that only iPanel can remotely control this server.

In iPanel, click Post for Hosting, then click New Forum.

Fill out all of the fields with appropriate values.- For "Forum location", select "Remote".- For "RPC URL", enter the URL to the "rpc" folder on the remote server.
Example: http://www.forum-server.com/rpc/
and for "RPC Key", enter the value you chose for API_KEY in step 2 above.-

For "Database hostname", enter the database hostname relative to the *remote* server -- that is, if MySQL is running on the same machine as the forum software, enter "localhost".

At this point, the RPC subsystem is configured and ready to use.

To enable remote post-for-hosting support, just create a new package that uses the forum you just created.