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Some questions about the yacs!thanks!

good8 -- on May 16 2005

YACS is really a good project for those who want to built a community!but I am a newbie.So when i setup,there are some questions for help,thanks! 1)How can i put a session or a category at the top,such as 'features and design','new releases' 2)If I haven't installed the GD on my server,but Imagemagick,will the picture works well??

Thanks!!

Bernard from nearby-an-airport Associate, 6940 posts	Edit · Delete on May 17 2005 To order sections, categories, and articles you can play with the field 'rank'. I should definitely expand the documentation on this important thing. To my knowledge GD is a library that can be invoked under PHP, where the other name you mentioned is not. If GD is available, YACS will use it to create thumbnails and to resize images where necessary. Else uploaded images will be used 'as-is'. Thank you very much for your interest in YACS.
Good8 7 posts	Edit · Delete inspired from Bernard on May 17 2005 Bernard: Thanks for your reply. But which folder(s) will be chmod to 777 before the installation under unix like system??such as Freebsd,or so.
Bernard from nearby-an-airport Associate, 6940 posts	Edit · Delete inspired from good8 on May 17 2005 Good8: YACS has to be able to modify about any file under the installation directory. Several parameter files are saved at shared., at skins/, at agents/, etc. Also, on update YACS overwrites PHP scripts themselves... Therefore, the account used to serve web requests has to be allowed to change any file in the YACS directory. You can either make this account the owner of all these directories and files(chmod 7..), or make this account a member of a group that is allowed to handle directories and files (chmod 77.), or allow the world to change everything (chmod 777). Which security policy are you talking about?
Good8 7 posts	Edit · Delete inspired from Bernard on May 19 2005 Bernard: Oh,I see! Another question:Can i change the root folder 'yacs' to my own,such as 'adf'?If that,i can browse it "http://www.xx.com/adf/index.php".But how??Thanks!
Bernard from nearby-an-airport Associate, 6940 posts	Edit · Delete inspired from good8 on May 19 2005 " Can i change the root folder 'yacs' to my own,such as 'adf'? " Sure, during the setup, while editing the main Configuration Panel, change the URL to root parameter from `/yacs/` to `/adf/`. By the way, you can even put every YACS files at the root of your site. In that case set URL to root to `/` and that's it.
Good8 7 posts	Edit · Delete inspired from Bernard on May 20 2005 Bernard: Thanks!but which skin file will be used by the article/view.php??
Bernard from nearby-an-airport Associate, 6940 posts	Edit · Delete inspired from good8 on May 20 2005 Good8: Look in the manual, at What is a skin? and following pages.

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