[Opensim-dev] First time setup of OpenSim - paths to configure

[Ai Austin]

I am going through a number of scenarios for setting up OpenSim from 
scratch on a new system as if I was a new user... checking documents, 
.ini file comments and seeing where simplifications can be made.

Rather than raise Mantis issue or suggestions for small things, I 
hope folks on this list will not mind me raising a question or two 
here which can probably be resolved quickly one way or the other.

1. The handling of FlotsamAssetCache.ini.  FlotsamAssetCache is 
enabled as the choice between the alternatives in the example .ini 
setup.  The setup will load config-include\FlotsamAssetcache.ini.. 
but if its not present it prints out a message but uses the 
defaults.  I wonder if this can be simplified and just avoid one step 
or this message by just renaming the example file 
config-include\FlotsamAssetcache.ini.example to 
config-include\FlotsamAssetcache.ini ?

2. Like we have a convention of Public Port 8002 and (firewall 
protected if we wish) PrivatePort 8003 for a grid.. we have a 
convention of port 9000 for a standalone PublicPort.  But have we 
established a convention for the PrivatePort for a standalone?  If 
not, can we do that?  As ports 9000-90xx tend to get used for add on 
regions in a setup.. we ought to avoid port numbers just after 9000. 
Would 9900 work as a suggestion?