[Opensim-dev] New Web Services Front End to link to Opensim using ROBUST

[Ai Austin]

Starting a new thread on this, as its likely to be a long running 
thread of discussion I would imagine.

Here is a summary of some web interfaces in use or under development 
that are known about... and what I hope are useful entry points into 
the Opensim Wiki.

http://opensimulator.org/wiki/Webinterface
http://opensimulator.org/wiki/Known_Web_Interfaces_within_OpenSim

http://d4os.isgreat.org/doc/dev/existing-solutions

We tried (three times) to get OpensimWI going in our setup, and each 
time it corrupted some elements  of our data bases, losing some 
aspects of users and their setup.  But with help form New World Grid 
folks, we did extract elements related to groups and offline IM and 
use those in a very simple web environment for opensim 0.6.6 on to 
0.6.8 successfully.

We have also been watching and commenting on Opensim web iterfaces in 
use or now under development for

a) The web front end for New World Grid at  http://www.newwqridgrid.com

b) the Drupal for Opensim (d4os) new web interface using Drupal 
modules under development at http://drupal.org/project/d4os

There are also new developments by various teams such as GridMix and 
HWIOS by folks active in the Opensim development coommunity.

What is needed is simple web modules that can be re purposed easily 
and included in any sort of content management and hosting 
environment (basically any web server/Apache, MySQL, PHP environment, 
including Drupal, Joomla, etc too)


At 20:16 05/03/2010, diva at metaverseink.com wrote:
>This troubles me too, as I have a couple of small grids that need a web
>front end. I've been looking at Drupal this morning, but I was
>discouraged by how horribly complicated it is to install. Even if I can
>eventually make it to work, I will never be able to teach people how to
>make it work. It's really horrible!
>
>I took a look at OSWiredux and I was also discouraged. It seems too
>complicated. But that doesn't mean that OSWiredux is dead. Someone with
>enough PHP knowledge should be able to fix it to work with the new DB
>schema -- just a few table/field name changes, and it should be salvageable.