Help To The Unsavvy

anthonyparsons posted 21st of May 2008 in Community Voice. 5 comments.

Those who need help installing and configuring Dolphin, I can provide you some assistance. I have over 10 years in web development and marketing, now retired, though I will help people with basic issues.

Please do not ask me about RMS installations, as the Boonex RMS I have no idea about. It is filled with hassles and holes IMHO. I ended up giving up and paying the installation fee for them to rectify the issue.

If you have a dedicated server, my suggestion would be to not use Boonex RMS, instead use something like WOWZA Media Pro, which is free to use for 10 consecutive connections or a fee to buy an unlimited license. Way cheaper than Adobe FMS or the like, much better than Boonex RMS or Red5. If you run a VPS then RED5 is still better than Boonex RMS, though it depends what resources your VPS has to whether RED5 will run well or not.

I have read this problem over and over in posts here... about the RMS not working on "AD Free" versions, being people are trying to use the rms.boonex.com value. Boonex states that the rms.boonex.com is only for those running the "Free" version, NOT the paid "AD Free" version. If you want no ads, then you have to install or connect to your own RMS.

There are also other third parties around the web that you can buy monthly RMTP connections from. You pay the monthly fee and enter their supplied details and away you go. Be cautious though, as some are not compatible with the way Boonex have setup Dolphin.... so ensure you employ a third party FMS host that you can connect solely based upon an IP with the provision of supplying your domain to them as the authentication, which they will enter into their software for authentication.

 
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hotpoint
I sent an email to my hosting provider telling them I was frustrated trying to install it and they did it for free within hours of me uploading the files. Try asking your host to do the install.
anthonyparsons
Hi Hotpoint,

Yer, I did that initially after doing the install myself and attempting to configure to the Boonex parameters, which just are not solid installation guidelines IMHO. My host wouldn't touch it either in configuration, as they can see the holes and issues surrounding such software as I found attempting it myself. Using this on a pretty unsecure server may work easily, though when you put it behind some thrifty security.... well, Boonex still haven't got mine working, just to say that. see more They are working on it no doubt, though my VPS with Servint is quite secure, to say the least. I initially tested the install with the Wowza installation I had on another dedicated server, which proved the software worked great; only that I am not going to stream across servers which are designed for other applications than running Boonex.

If Boonex fail to get it running on the VPS I have the site upon, then I guess I will cross that bridge when I come to it. May be that I end up installing RED5 onto my home server and using that as a stream for the Boonex software.... though certainly not big on that idea either with lag... hence why I don't do third party companies, ping and lag... annoy the hell out of me with video.

Great to hear though that your host got it working quickly for you. Always good when a host will participate in third party softwares.... not many do nowadays due to the risks they pose to the server integrity.
hrasheed
I have written boonex support trying to understand things better, last week I sent an email asking about putting banners on my site. I don't understand how to get the banners into the site so that I can manage them. Unlike the header this seems to be added by ftp which I have tried and no lucK. Does anyone know how to get t his done?
anthonyparsons
Ok, quickly looking at the mess of a system they are running in this software, it looks like a bad combination of templating, php and xml. The good news is that system runs a language database for the most part, by the looks of it. Every page still must physically load from a file though, whether a php page dragging multiple templates and languages from the DB to create the page or whether just a basic page, all pages are an actual formed object.

With any PHP or HTML type page, you can drop code see more directly into the page to affect the layout. The main root of the install contains all the major pages in PHP. If you want a global banner, I would suggest header or footer, as this CMS does not come easily for page management by the looks of it, unlike say drupal or the like.

If you look in /templates you will find both /base & / tmpl_uni folders in which contain the page information depending on what you are asking the system to do. Looking at it, as I haven't modified this CMS just yet, you could adjust them within those callout templates. I would honestly stick with just header and footer banners though for hard coding modification.

The admin obviously contains the page builder system... which looks ok for basic text oriented tasks and moving the already included blocks around, though having a quick play with it, you can actually create HTML blocks in pages by dragging the "HTML Blocks" block from the samples location at the bottom of the pages, into the page, then click it to insert your own custom HTML into a page.... seems they did think about how to insert banners and customising after all with ease.

You can simply create your own pages if you like through the system and implement all custom HTML for your entire site if you like.

Admin > Builders > Pages Builder - Click page you want to insert > Bottom of page drag "HTML Block" into page > Then click that block once inserted and modify. Simply keep dragging the block from samples to your page each time you want to create custom HTML, ie. insert a banner.

Upload the banner to your images directory, insert HTML to code in the banner.
anthonyparsons
With the letters coming in.... RMS seems to be the largest issue by far that people experience with this product. Maybe I should go into RMTP hosting.... I'd make a fortune.
 
 
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