After a few days of coming back for a few minutes at a time, I finally figured out (roughly) how to get a wakaba board set up and am now working on figuring out multiple boards. This brings me to my question: does each board need its own database? I still don't understand much of SQL so this may be a fairly easy question. Also, there's nothing to prevent the board from working if I rename the directory it's in and then move it, correct?
First, you don't need different databases if you change the names of the tables in config.pl so they are differenet for each board.
Second, if you rename a directory or otherwise move the board, the links in the HTML files will all be wrong, but this is easily fixed by going to the admin panel and selecting Rebuild Caches. However, you may have to type in the URL to the admin panel by hand, since the link on the page will also be wrong.
Don't forget the wonderful tool known as lndir. Very useful with multiple boards.
I just config'd my first board, so correct me if I'm wrong, but wouldn't lndir not be effecient to use at all? Wouldn't you just copy the wakaba.pl/config.pl into as many different boards, and configure those as you wanted?
I still don't understand exactly how to create multiple boards without copying the entirety of Wakaba to each board folder. Can someone PLEASE tell me exactly how to do this more efficiently?
If you don't know how to use symlinks, you might be better off not using them. You can just copy everything to multiple directories, that works just fine.
If this is a problem because you have too many boards, this is probably because you have too many boards. Most sites suffer dilution if you have lots of boards that are the same as what you'd find elsewhere.
Well the point of iichan is kind of to avoid that by having everyone host a small number of specific boards so that everybody doesn't need to make their own /a/ and /b/ over and over again.
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so iichan doesn't suffer from dilution? don't get me wrong, i enjoy some boards at iichan. one of my own boards is even on the nav list (even though I said I didn't want it there about two years ago...) but there is way too many slow moving niche boards for its own good. you've heard this all before, i'm sure.
I'm sorry, but why couldn't you just tell us, give an example, or give us some documentation on how to use 'symlinks'? This doesn't make a darn bit of sense to me without an example of where to use it and how:
symlink OLDFILE,NEWFILE
I'm sure it would help a great number of us if you could provide some help on this matter.
Not in the sense of making the same boards over and over, which was what I was referring to earlier.
Find some Unix tutorial that explains it. That sounds like Perl docs, which is not what you should be looking at.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ln_%28Unix%29 might be useful.