0. Table of Contents
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1. Overview
2. Install
3. Notes
  3.1. JGBBS Structure
  3.2. User group
  3.3. Initialization
4. Contact



1. Overview
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JGBBS is a full-featured online forum system for small to medium 
sized communities. It is developed in ASP + Access database. It 
runs on any server that has Windows 2000 (or later) and IIS 5.0 
(or later) installed.



2. Install
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Unpack the zip package, copy all the files into a folder on your 
server (local or remote), the run 'default.asp' in the folder from 
your browser.

Database file is located in the 'db' sub-folder, you may change the 
file name as you like, if you have done so, don't forget to change 
the settings in 'config.asp' accordingly (on line 65).



3. Notes
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3.1. JGBBS Structure
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JGBBS is organized in a tree structure, the root node is "forum", 
"forum" has several "board"s in it, meanwhile, there are some (maybe 
many) "post"s in every "board", a "post" can possess a number of 
"reply"s, also, each "reply" can has its "reply"s.

"post"s and "reply"s are intentionally displayed in a tree structure, 
try to do some post, then you will understand how this works.


3.2. User group
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Each user is in a user group, every user group has its privileges, 
there are five user groups in JGBBS, they are:

Guests,
Members,
Validated,
Moderators,
Administrators.

among these, Guests has the least privilege, then members, and so on, 
Moderators has the privilege to admin boards/posts, Administrators 
has the largest privilege, this group can admin the whole forum.


3.3. Initialization
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A user, named 'admin', with the password 'admin' is created, this 
user is in the Administrators group.

A board, named 'test board', is created.

A post with the title 'Hello, world' is created.



4. Contact
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Homepage:      http://jgbbs.sourceforge.net/
Email:         hanru@users.sourceforge.net
Demo:          http://freehost10.websamba.com/jgbbs3/default.asp
               http://www50.brinkster.com/jgbbs/default.asp 

July, 12, 2005