[Opensim-users] Questions on Groups

[Diva Canto]

You cannot run Groups in standalone only. If you're using the flotsam's 
Groups implementation, you need at the very least an external Apache Web 
server to run the service itself.

On 6/4/2011 7:49 AM, Justin Clark-Casey wrote:
> InuYasha, I do feel a lot of sympathy for what you're saying but the 
> blunt fact of the matter is that OpenSim is very technical alpha 
> software.  As you've found out, getting features beyond the basics 
> working is complicated, often poorly or even conflictingly documented 
> and may well involve hanging about and asking people on IRC (which can 
> often generate no responses if everyone is busy/elsewhere).
>
> I think that's just the nature of cutting edge volunteer-led 
> open-source projects, especially one such as this where the 
> architecture is extremely distributed.  It's not worth ruining your 
> health over.  If things get too much I would seriously suggest leaving 
> it for a while and coming back in a year or two, when things will 
> (hopefully!) have improved.
>
> You may also want to consider a hosted solution.  Running 49 regions 
> on a single machine is also asking a lot technically, depending on how 
> much activity/prims/scripts are on those regions.
>
> As for groups, it is possible to get them running on standalone.  I 
> can't remember what you may have written about this before.  With 
> Flotsam, it should be a case of following the instructions at 
> http://code.google.com/p/flotsam/wiki/XmlRpcGroups.  However, this 
> code is only very lightly maintained.  You might also want to check 
> out the other groups alternatives at 
> http://opensimulator.org/wiki/Feature_Matrix#Users
>
> On 04/06/11 13:12, InuYasha Meiji wrote:
>> You can see what I am running via my tag line. I have fought with it 
>> in the past with no luck. I have help for someone
>> who it seems part way through went off to college and I have not been 
>> able to continue on and make it work. Can someone
>> tel me am I confused? It is really possible to get groups to work in 
>> a standalone with just the standalone and no robust
>> servers etc.
>>
>> I am starting to think I misunderstood and that I got confused about 
>> tit. Kind of the way I wasted all kinds of time
>> trying to get voice working with freeswitch only to find freeswitch 
>> don't allow the owner of the sim to use a DYNDNS
>> name server and a permanent IP must be used instead. I asked 
>> questions on and on, only to find out this bit of
>> information later.
>>
>> So I am starting to believe that is the problem with groups. Maybe I 
>> never asked the right question and running the
>> groups module may be impossible with a standalone. I am loosing my 
>> patience with all this, I have been staying up late
>> and waking up in the middle of the night over all this, over 
>> something that was supposed to be fun. It isn't worth what
>> little health I have left.
>>
>> Distraught and feel wrecked,
>> InuYasha.
>>
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