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i have another bigger problem too, the hosting uses cpanel and i dunno how to make "catch-all" subdomain with it or if i can...

Could you tell me more about "free punbb forum hosting" ? For any kind of forum ? We have a OSS project here, so I would like to know as detailed as possible about your exellent idea

Well, I would have created a subdir per domain and used massive-symlink-attack. ;-)

Oh, and prefix from domain:

Make sure you apply some safety checks on it before using it as a table prefix. Otherwise one can easily inject sql.

fully automatic: Create a script, that does symlink-attack ;-)  (Yes, I'm used to full root-access to boxes ;-) )

sql injection: This can all be tricked. The httpd mostly knows about the wanted domain name, cause it's transfered in clear in HTTP/1.1. So all I need to do, is to talk HTTP/1.1 on my own. (I'm not 100% sure, one can get spaces in or apache might sanitize this also. But I wouldn't want to count on either of these.)

wooo, the host has edited the httpd.conf and now all subdomains except @ and www. go to the forums folder this means i can get to work making an install script

100% free the only ad i'm going to have atm is a Hosted by myPunBB.com at the bottom

Yes, also Plesk is windows compatable.
cPanel needs to catch up.

but he got it to work anyway, contacted the host and he did it

and yes, its one install per sub domain, but there are only 1 set of files.

i don't want to have to setup the subdomains though i want it to be automated so i wanted all subdomains to be setup, also a cool idea gary suggested is that all sites that aren't registed (say you go to middleground.mypunbb.com right now) would give you the registration form

Great work connorhd, its looking great, its gona be the next Proboards but with punbb... maybe you could set it up some how where the admins could change a css file to custimize it more

for now its just going to be the same install for everyone

in 1.2 i'm going to add some stuff i'm thinking about your own style and your own template, and all it does is create a file subdomain_main.tpl then if thaty exists for your subdomain it uses it, if not it just uses the default, however for now thats gonna have to wait

yeh should be fine, its properly hosted not a home server or anything, i don't know how popular its going to be, if it gets alot of registrations i'll probably rethink the database setup, but it should work fine as it is,

things to do:
* clean up pages and registration [done]
* add more registration options e.g. forum admin username etc [done]
* add flood join control [done]
* make subdomains with a - work [done]
* see what happens with avatars - they didn't... fixed by prefixing with forum subdomain [done]

* do about page

* test it all
* get users

Future stuff:
* make admin controls for me, disable regisration, list and delete tables for a forum
* look at 1.2 (caching etc)
* look at making custom tpls, styles (maybe shove them in another folder and prefix with subdomain name then say if exists use custom one otherwise use standard)
* make a mypunbbig (e.g. a punbig for all the sites on mypunbb.com)