Forest Message Board

• What is it?
• Screenshots
• Demo
• Requirements
• Download
• Quick Start
• Contact/Help

If you've emailed me recently about this, I'm afraid I've accidentally deleted an email about it. Please resend it!

Forest Board is my humble attempt at writing a simple threaded message board in python that uses CGI and flat files. It's meant to be easy to setup, use and customise if need be.

• 09 May 2007 - File line endings changed to Unix style and MIT licence applied.
• 03 Jul 2006 - New version available - now doesn't allow empty posts.
• Feb 2006 - Demo site available.
• 01 Nov 2005 - There was a bug in the script so links were being parsed twice. Fixed.
• 10 Oct 2005 - First release!

You can now try out forest board without downloading it! I have my own copy up and running here.

• The main index view
• View of a single thread

To run this you will require:

• Python (version 2.3 and above)
• Some sort of web server that supports CGI and will allow the script to write out to a folder.

Forest Board can be downloaded here; forest.tar.gz

• Set up your web server/place forest.py so that it is executed as a CGI script. You'll probably have to change the python path at the top of forest.py and chmod the script as appropriate if you're not on Windows.
• Put the stylesheet forest.css somewhere where it will be served by the webserver.
• Edit forest.py, at the very least, altering:
• DATA_PATH - Should point to a writable folder where the posts will be stored.
• CSS_PATH - Specify where the stylesheet forest.css is.
There are other settings within this file, mostly self explanatory.
• Go to the appropriate URL and post away!

I can be contacted by email for help setting up Forest Board and general questions, suggestions etc. You'll find my email address at the top of forest.py.

Easiest though, is to post on the Wiki