[Opensim-users] A groups Question on Opensim

Wed Jun 23 11:59:22 UTC 2010

Marck wrote:
> InuYasha Meiji wrote:
>> I wanted to know before I continue to pull my on hair out, if a
>> standlone can even get groups to work?  I have been trying for a while
>> now. I am sorry if I seem dumb, but I think I am missing something.  I
>> get my precompiled version of opensim 6.9 pre-fixed) from OSGrid, with
>> no intentions of connecting to it.  My personal project lets personal
>> friends of mine come and enjoy a tour of Shuri Castle during the time of
>> King Sho nei.
>
> Yes, groups do work with a standalone. Just yesterday, I have set up 
> the flotsam XmlRpcGroups implementation for my standalone which also 
> uses a OpenSim 0.6.9 binary distribution provided by OSGrid.
>
>> Ok, I don't seem to have any other troubles, my friends log in fine and
>> so do I.  I don't loose anything but between shutting down and coming
>> back up some worn items have to be reattached.  I logged into flotsom
>> and downloaded what I thought I needed from them the php files and all
>> that.  But once I get how I think they tell me to set it up done, I turn
>> on the group in the opensim.ini and all I get are errors, and even after
>> pointing to my own xmlrpc.php in my xampp/htdocs/groups dir via http
>> address one of the errors I get say it is trying to use something to do
>> with OSGrid.  Oh and quits while apparently trying to find the user in
>> the user database.
>
> Have you followed the installation instructions at 
> http://code.google.com/p/flotsam/wiki/XmlRpcGroups? You do not need to 
> care about the OpenSim module because it is already part of the 
> OpenSim distribution.
>
>> So it started making me think before I continue maybe I misunderstood
>> with all these people running with many configurations, should I be
>> running in Gridmode, not connected to OSGrid but should I need to run my
>> opensim in grid mode using all those external files to run the user
>> server so it will find the users.  Or did I do something else wrong.
>>
>> But if someone could just help me configure groups in a more detailed
>> way for a standalone that would be nice too.
>
> Follow the link given in step 1) of the installation instructions and 
> use the "Download Source" button in the upper right of that page to 
> download a ZIP archive with everything you need (and some more).
>
> Inside this ZIP archive, you'll find a subdirectory 
> "XmlRpcGroupsServer". The contents of that directory are what you 
> actually need to copy to your xampp/htdocs/groups directory. Your 
> Apache web server must be able to run PHP scripts in this directory 
> (since you are using XAMPP, I take it that this is  already the case).
>
> Step 2) tells you to copy config.php.example to config.php and to edit 
> it appropriately. Make sure that you provide the correct settings for 
> the database (see next step). You can keep the default values for the 
> "Group security" settings. (Once you have groups successfully running, 
> you may want to change both $groupRequireAgentAuthForWrite and 
> $groupEnforceGroupPerms to TRUE; they work fine in my setup.)
>
> Step 3) requires you to add some tables to the MySQL database. You can 
> add these tables to the same database that you are using for your 
> standalone, or use a separate one. I added the tables to my existing 
> standalone database with this command:
>    mysql -u root -p standalone < groups.sql
> "standalone" is the name of my database, and groups.sql is a file in 
> the directory that you copied in step 1).  You will be asked for the 
> database server's root password.
>
> Now, in step 4), you can enable the settings in the [Groups] section 
> in OpenSim.ini. Make sure that the GroupsServerURI is correct and that 
> the other settings correspond to those you made in step 2. For 
> example, the ReadKey and WriteKey must match in both OpenSim.ini and 
> config.php.
>
> Don't forget to restart your standalone after making these adjustments.
>
> Please let us know if you still have problems with the setup.
>
>> I use windows 7 64bit using 32bitlaunch.  Running on 8 gig of ram and
>> 1720 gig drive space.  Quad core.
>> I use MySql data base.  DSL 5.5 kbps and use DynDNS providing my
>> personal web address.
>> MY web page runs fine from my machine.  I used XAMPP to install apache,
>> mysql I downloaded and installed separately first.
>>
>> I am not a networking expert and might have gone wrong from the start.
>> I had to change the port in which opensim runs.  because windows 7 was
>> using 9000 for its own use, I tell opensim to use port 9030 and could on
>> from there for regions.  Not sure if that was the way to go.  Could I
>> have done that another way?  I do use a router.  The D-Link 4500 with
>> Game fuel turned off.
>>
>> Any help appreciated, thanks.
>
OK, I haven't tried it yet, I only just woke up.  But I didn't want to 
wait to thank you, that was the most comprehensive discription I have 
seen yet.  I will let you know how it all goes.  And it sounds like this 
should help.  The first time I tried to get each file off of flotsom's 
site individually.  I never noticed the zip file.  I am a legally blind, 
only one useful eye and one that gets fuzzy after to much use.  That 
alonge with a kidney transplant.  I don't know if that zip was there 
before or I might have missed it.  But this sounds like it will help 
me.  Thanks again. 

I really apprecaite your time.
.

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