Can Simplify Email be installed on a shared web hosting service

[Nicolas Vivier]

I already rent such a service, so I would prefer to install Simplify Email on it. Is it a classic php/mysql app ?

Kind regards

[Steve Williams]

On 1/4/2015 1:45 AM, Nicolas Vivier wrote:
> I already rent such a service, so I would prefer to install Simplify
> Email on it. Is it a classic php/mysql app ?

I discussed this with Jeff Reifman by email. He doesn't offer direct
help getting it working on hosting other than Digital Ocean, which he'll
set up for you at very low cost.

I use Webfaction, and I didn't want to take the time to get familiar
with Digital Ocean, so I fiddled with it myself and got it working.

It is a straightforward PHP/MySQL app. It uses the Yii PHP framework.
I'm not familiar with Yii, but it's not complicated.

The Simplify Email installation instructions require root access to
create /var/secure and assumes much of the PHP code is in sibling
directories of the web site's root document directory. (That is,
app/../framework, for example.)

Webfaction shared hosting doesn't allow either of those, but it wasn't
hard to find the hard-coded references to those directories in the PHP
code and change them to use configurable locations.

I think I have more work to do before everything is working: Simplify
Email runs on my server, but I'm not sure everything is working. If and
when I confirm I have it working fully, I'll try to find time to write
up what I did and suggest to Jeff making the code more configurable to
shared hosting environments, so I don't have to patch each new release.

Hope that's helpful!

[Nicolas Vivier]

Thanks very much for your answer. I'll stay stand by for the moment as I
don't want to dedicate much time in installing the app.

BTW what is the licence ?

Kind regards

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Nicolas Vivier

[Steve Williams]

On 2/15/2016 6:47 PM, jks...@gmail.com wrote:
> I'm curious to know if Steve had good success and if he documented
> what all he did.

I did not, and I decided not to spend more time on getting Simplify
working fully.

I was able to get the front-end working, but I never did get it to
actually do anything with my email.

Also, I didn't put time into understanding fully the terminology and how
to use the app. I decided I shouldn't spend more time on an app that
isn't fully support in the configuration I want to use.