Web sites to help you install Laconica
NOTE July 10/08: With so many people adding bits of documentation about installing Laconi.ca - I’ll update this post as new resources become available rather than post a new one each time…
Laconica is the open source Twitter-type software that, in the past week, has been attracting TONS of attention… Many people (including myself) have been working on or thinking of putting together a microblogging script… Looks like Evan (the co-founder of http://www.identi.ca) has been able to get one running, and it’s turned out to be a pretty great program!
The issue many developers are having, though, is how to get the thing installed… I searched at the end of last week with no success. Today, already I’ve found a few resources. So here goes…
To get the laconica files in the first place:
http://laconi.ca/Main/Source
If you’re using DreamHost, you might be in luck.
A few articles talk specifically about installing Laconica, if your hosting company is DreamHost.
Installing PEAR on dreamhost.com has information on installing PEAR and his follow-up article Laconi.ca successfully installed on dreamhost has information about actually installing Laconica on there with some warnings before installing!
Another DreamHost-related article: Got Laconi.ca installed on my DreamHost account is pretty well detailed and interesting.
Hosting somewhere else? Or your own server?
If you’re hosting anywhere besides Dreamhost, you’ll this is the place to go:
0xDECAFBAD’s article Getting Laconica up and running is a great article, and the comments from both the developer community and Evan, the developer of the Laconica software himself, can definitely help out.
As people are adding Laconica information regularly, I’ll post again as I find other interesting resources.
Good luck!
ADDED:
2008/07/11 @ahynes1 has some great documentation at Orient Lodge starting with a sort of basic step-by-step guide, and followed up by a couple of posts with updates. Great stuff there!
2008/07/14: The main Laconi.ca site has added installation information including the tables that need to be altered/changed when updating from an older version.
Also, there are two scripts to install Laconica on DreamHost on Gimme Soda.
2008/10/28: Just found a great step by step post about installing Laconi.ca.
Tags: laconica, microblogging, web developers
January 26th, 2009 at 4:53 am
hey guys Im trying to install Laconica on Godaddy and I get the follwing error ” Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_STRING in /home/content/l/o/r/lordev/html/plugd/lib/util.php on line 582 ” do any of you know how to fix this, appreciate your help. Keep the good work .
February 25th, 2009 at 7:27 am
Here is the url for the Gimme Soda site and the updated installer.
http://www.gimmesoda.com/laconica-web-based-installer-updated/
Assuming you have the required PHP/MySQL packages installed on your server, create a MySQL database for laconica, than upload the folder and install.php file found in the installer package. Open a browser and go to http://yoursite.com/install.php, fill in the database name, password, username, host(usually “localhost”), click the button and the installer will check if everything is O.K. and if so it will download and install the latest version of Laconica on your website! Check it at my website URL! Now this only works if you are installing in the root of a domain or root of a sub-domain. It WILL NOT WORK in a directory of a domain. Also read the README file in the installer package. It worked for me, good luck!