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[dreamishtest]

Good Morning! I currently have someone trying to install the Dreamwidth code on a server for my friends and I to use. They are having some issues and may not be able to complete the task, so I was curious if there might be anyone in the community I could pay to install it for us? Regardless, when they are done installing there are two modifications I would love to have done, and was wondering if someone might be interested in being contracted to do that. Thanks for your time! They were able to install the code, but I have some additional questions and am unsure how to make a few modifications and change the layout. If anyone has some spare time I would gladly pay for their assistance :).

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[azurelunatic]

Good luck! And thank you for double checking with denise for guidance. :)

[dreamishtest]

Thank you! I answered my own question.

Is there anyone who might be willing to help me with a few other questions? I am looking through the documentation, but not finding what I need.

[denise]

Where are you stuck at?

[dreamishtest]

Hi Denise! I am stuck on 2 things.

1. He cannot get the email working. This is one of the responses he gets: https://i.imgur.com/17mdjZt.png -- He said the solution might be that I have to install a mail server? Which he does not know how to do

2. How to change things like what paid accounts are called/how many icons people get/general site features like that.

Thank you SO much.

[denise]

Yeah, in order to be able to send/receive mail, you need a mail server running. We use Postfix, and while you can make any of them work, it will probably be easiest to use that as well. Running your own mail is complicated and annoying and trying to get it past Gmail's spam filters is incredibly frustrating sometimes, but there are guides out there.

Icons, account features, etc, are all governed by the config files. I think we may have moved them since the last time I looked, but the last time I looked they were in etc/local. Account types and feature access are controlled by the %CAP, %CAP_DEF, etc variables in config.pl. (Because this has bitten me in the ass a million times: after you make changes to the caps, you need to restart Apache for them to take effect.)