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Originally written back in 2002, this was designed as the backend for three separate webcomics run by friends (‘Megadome All-Stars’, ‘Into the Black’, and ‘The Misadventures of Magus and Mog’). However, as is often the case with such things, all three of those webcomics eventually ceased to be.
After about a year, I decided it was time to clean up the code a (little) bit, fix some bugs, and make it available to the Internet at large. It’s still rough around the edges, but I think it does a pretty nice job of administering a webcomic without needing a database. Not really very configurable at all, unless you know PHP- but some people may find it useful, nonetheless.
I believe that there are now more robust alternatives to this available on Freshmeat, but I am not familiar with any of them. You should probably shop around a bit before settling on this program, but it is possible that it will still suit your needs.
If you use (or will consider using) WordPress on your site, ComicPress will probably suit your needs better.
DEMO :: (login with user: user{1|2|3} and passwd: user{1|2|3} to play with the admin page)
Updated December 20, 2008:
- Changed include paths to be relative so that they work without modifying the PHP config.
- Replaced all linked index files with empty ones to still accoplish keeping people from browsing the directory structure while still working with relative include paths.
- Updated README
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Posted by Aku on 2004.05.24 at 22:48
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Hey Im needing some help with the webcomic. Its getting really confusing. can u please help me. http://www.hollicost.com/mycomic
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Posted by Teri on 2004.05.24 at 23:02
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Ok, you see how that error message says: opendir([unixpath][unixpath][webpath]); and the links at the top go to (e.g.) http://www.hollicost.com/home/holcost/public_html/mycomic/archives.php?
The problem is your path variable. Right now from looking at this, it looks like it is "/home/holcost/public_html/mycomic/", that is the unix path. What you want is the website path, which would be simply "/mycomic" in your situation.
You can fix this by editing the config file-the variables are all commented with examples.
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Posted by Aku on 2004.05.25 at 08:49
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Posted by Teri on 2004.05.25 at 10:57
Your site has been inaccessible for the past few hours. Why don't you email me your config file, and I'll look at it?
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Posted by Carter on 2004.11.12 at 14:09
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Sorry to be a total newb, but what is a .htaccess file, and how do I set one up? I'm familiar with basic unix commands and have basic shell access at my isp, but I don't know much at all about php or apache.
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Posted by Teri on 2004.11.12 at 15:40
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/howto/htaccess.html
Basically, a .htaccess file tells apache what settings will apply in the current directory (and subdirectories therein). Any settings specified in this file will override those set in the global httpd.conf file.
Among other things, these files are necessary (generally) for creating password protected directories in apache.
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Posted by Frank Altpeter on 2006.11.24 at 17:57
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Hi,
thanks for this program. It's cute, easy, and very reliable. After some minutes, i found out how to configure it to fit my needs, and it works fine now.
The only thing i would have to suggest, would be to write some README and/or INSTALL file for those of us that have shell access but no clue how to use it :-)
Since the program is from 2004, i assume that you don't do any active development anymore on it, but if you might do something sometime later, i would feature-request (not for me, but for others it might be helpful):
- own configuration file for making the program language-aware, e.g. variables instead of text and a config file where one can select prewritten languages
- Disabling some parts (e.g. gallery and rant) completely by configuration variable
- Making the php_errors away (e.g. adding isset() function around if() statements like variable tests)If you're interested in my modifications, i might send you a diff … it's not much, but something i found worth to be cleaned up :)
But… thanks again for it, it's working for me (besides my little changes :)
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Posted by Frank Altpeter on 2006.11.24 at 18:00