[Opensim-users] Questions on Groups

[Justin Clark-Casey]

I think we were referring to the OpenSim configuration mode being 'standalone' (since PHP is listed below).  Of course, 
the webserver can run on the same machine as the standalone.

On 04/06/11 15:59, Diva Canto wrote:
> 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.
>>>
>>> --
>>> ________________________________________________________________
>>> Opensim User: Standalone Grid on Version 0.7.1.1 with 49 Regions
>>> on Windows 7, 64-bit. Phenom 9500 2.2 ghz Quad Core, Terabyte Hard
>>> Drive, 8gig DDR2 RAM. Used XAMPP to load PHP Version 5.3.0, Apache
>>> and MySQL 5.1.41-community edition. Modules not yet successful
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