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Ruby on Rails  
Written by xiaomao5 the 21 Dec 10 at 01:16. Global category: Project Web. New
I want to install redmine, but it requires Ruby on Rails, which is not available.
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Solution #1: Install Ruby on Rails
Written by xiaomao5 the 21 Dec 10 at 01:16.
Upgrade the Ruby to newest and install Ruby on Rails

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Sqlite is the largest installed db (think mobile phones)  
Written by jwzumwalt1 the 20 Dec 10 at 20:56. Global category: Project Web. New
Sqlite is the largest installed db in the world -especially mobile, (Mysql is #2), why not support it so that demos and other small projects can use it. At least enable the built in PHP PDO features...
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Solution #1: Enable the built in PHP PDO support for SQLITE
Written by jwzumwalt1 the 20 Dec 10 at 20:56.
Enable the built in PHP PDO support for sqlite

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Secure Web - SVG/ImageMagick  
Written by lcawte-wikia the 23 Nov 10 at 18:19. Global category: Project Web. New
Rending for SVGs or ImageMagick needs to be sorted on the new secure web, errors are caused, for example when rendered by PHP - Example http://dev.brickpost.info/wiki/File:Buggie.svg
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Solution #1: Install/Configure
Written by lcawte-wikia the 23 Nov 10 at 18:19.
SVG rendering or ImageMagick needs to be installed/configured.

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Enable mod_headers for Apache  
Written by zazi the 30 Oct 10 at 14:07. Global category: Project Web. New
Please enable mod_headers for Apache (http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/mod_headers.html) to make CORS (http://enable-cors.org/) possible.
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Solution #1: Enable mod_headers for Apache
Written by zazi the 30 Oct 10 at 14:07.
Please enable mod_headers for Apache (http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/mod_headers.html) to make CORS (http://enable-cors.org/) possible.

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Being able to use mysql stored functions and procedures  
Written by ak2ps the 19 Aug 10 at 15:01. Global category: Project Web. New
Using stored functions and procedures CAN (can ...) make your applications a lot more simple.
Mysql 5 has the tools and the language to make those functions and procedures. The mysql admin user does not have the rights (create routine, alter routine, drop routine).
Add those rights and you would make (at least) me a lot happier. My sql statements become a lot shorter and simpeler..
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Solution #1: add the create routine rights to the admin users.
Written by ak2ps the 19 Aug 10 at 15:01.
See title

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VHost Subdomains  
Written by lcawte-wikia the 30 Jul 10 at 22:46. Global category: Project Web. New
I'd like to see an option to enable custom sub domains while using vhosts.. for example having a normal vhost setup then wanting to say, subdomain /wiki or whatever program I have installed where ever have it show up as blog.vhost.com or similar.
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Solution #1: Extra directory
Written by lcawte-wikia the 30 Jul 10 at 22:46.
Enable a special directory with in the /home/groups folder of the project where apache or lighttp (whichever sf.net currently uses) so in that directory you have /blog and /wiki, it looks at them and calls /blog blog.myproject.sourceforge.net or /wiki wiki.myproject.sourceforge.net. Then someone could CNAME them so they can have custom subdomains, use sf.net's facilities and still have a great looking url!
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Solution #2: Use .htaccess
Written by theonlypwner the 9 Oct 11 at 03:19.
You can also define rules to rewrite the URL for subdomains.

However, this is not a permanent solution.
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Solution #3: Improved VHost system
Written by theonlypwner the 9 Oct 11 at 04:22.
For each VHost, also allow a directory path (default is /)

Then for each VHost, allow 20 subdomains under it, each with its own path option.

Also, allow wild-cards for subdomains.

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Can't Manage Project Webpage from Sourceforge  
Written by squalldesu the 12 Jul 10 at 11:48. Global category: Project Web. New
Currently a project's webpage cannot be edited directly from Sourceforge. One has to create any files they want to use locally then upload them via sftp.
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Solution #1: Impliment an Application for Webpage Authoring
Written by squalldesu the 12 Jul 10 at 11:48.
Under the project's "Project Admin" tab, there could be an option to manage its webpage. This link would take you to a file manager where you could upload files and edit text/html documents.
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Solution #2: Allow FTP access
Written by astei the 22 Jul 10 at 03:27.
Other providers do it; why don't we? I agree that that this solution I have is not the solution (user must make the file locally) but will speed up the progress.

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Svnroot CNAME short url  
Written by lcawte-wikia the 25 Jun 10 at 15:00. Global category: Project Web. New
I'd like to propose a short url for CNAME-ing to the svnroot. I've cnamed to my SVN before, but can only get the sourceforge viewvc, which I don't like, and I'd personally like to see my users visiting the svnroot. If they want other means of viewing it, they know where to look..
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Solution #1: Add svnroot.project.sourceforge.net
Written by lcawte-wikia the 25 Jun 10 at 15:00.
Implement svnroot.project.sourceforge.net for cname

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provide access log for project web  
Written by freemant the 21 May 10 at 03:11. Global category: Project Web. New
I know there is an analytic tool but I would like to track the number of (binary, non-HTML) downloads in the project web. My downloads aren't ordinary file downloads, but are maven artifacts so they are made available in the project web instead of the file repository.
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Solution #1: make the apache access log available
Written by freemant the 21 May 10 at 03:11.
make the apache access log available just like what you do with the error log. Or, provide official support for maven repository.

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Supporting 'svn' and 'wiki' aliases  
Written by rfarahbod the 31 Mar 10 at 00:04. Global category: Project Web. New
Currently, under the VHOST service, sourceforge supports having a 'cvs' alias of the form 'cvs.myprojectsite.com' to be redirected to:

PROJECTNAME.cvs.sourceforge.net.

However, the same service is not configured for SVN and WIKI aliases, meaning that we cannot have 'svn.myprojectsite.come' and 'wiki.myprojectsite.com' to be redirected to

PROJECTNAME.svn.sourceforge.net
and
PROJECTNAME.wiki.sourceforge.net

This shouldn't be a hard to configure, specially since we already have it for CVS.
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Solution #1: Configure Apache servers to accept 'svn' and 'wiki' aliases
Written by rfarahbod the 31 Mar 10 at 00:04.
Please configure Apache server(s) to support redirection of 'svn' and 'wiki' aliases similar to what we have for 'cvs' CNAME records.

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Add support for Ruby on Rails to project homepages  
Written by s_hoffmann the 6 Mar 10 at 18:05. Global category: Project Web. New
I like to make my Project Website with RoR
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Solution #1: Install Ruby on Rails
Written by s_hoffmann the 6 Mar 10 at 18:05.
Download RoR from http://rubyonrails.org/ and install it to the server.

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losing access to new project pages after process of changing UNIX name  
Written by nickols_k the 24 Feb 10 at 16:25. Global category: Project Web. New
I've sent ticket for changing the UNIX name of my project which is being hosted on sourceforge.net.

Old name was: http://biew.sourceforge.net
New name become: http://beye.sourceforge.net

After renaming of project I've found out that old URL is not longer accessible. Due this fact project loses many visitors which know its old name and don't know about renaming.
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Solution #1: To keep access to the project through the old name after the renaming
Written by nickols_k the 24 Feb 10 at 16:25.
I have idea to keep access (during year or longer) to the new project pages after renaming of project. For that is far enough to keep old project URL or provide readdress service from old URL on NEW project pages or just publish such html on old URL:



This project was renamed and may be access through:
http://new-project-name.sourceforge.net


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Update Python version  
Written by assem_ch the 23 Feb 10 at 01:06. Global category: Project Web. New
the current used release in project web is 2.4.3( https://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/sourceforge/wiki/Project%20web%20and%20develo per%20web%20platform ),

This release is vulnerable to the problem described in security advisory PSF-2006-001"Buffer overrun in repr() of unicode strings in wide unicode builds (UCS-4)".( http://www.python.org/news/security/PSF-2006-001/ )

this release is also too old ,released on 2006.lot of new statments and standard libraries added recently
ex:
- Conditional Expressions
x = true_value if condition else false_value
- Absolute and Relative Imports
from ... import ...

i cant return 4 years back,and i dont know why i have to submit an idea and wait for months ,only to request the update to a newer release!

Developer comments
We've examined the particular Python version we have installed, and the particular instance we're using is a patched version that does not have that security vulnerability.

I'll be leaving this Idea open however, since the request for a newer version of Python is still a valid idea.

Regards,
Chris Tsai, SourceForge.net Support
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Solution #1: update to release 2.6.x
Written by assem_ch the 23 Feb 10 at 01:06.
the last stable release is 2.6.4,update to it or another 2.6.x release and make it rich of small well known libraries

releases 3.x are specials and the scripts written on 2.x don't run on it

http://www.python.org/download/releases/2.6.4/
http://www.python.org/download/releases/3.1.1/
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Solution #2: Install new Python under the alternate name: python2.6
Written by mtnyogi the 5 May 10 at 20:20.
If you are concerned that upgrading from Python 2.4 to Python 2.6 may break other python scripts running on your system (e.g., that are part of CentOS), may I suggest that you install Python 2.6 alongside Python 2.4 by leaving the python 2.4 installation intact (so as not to disrupt python scripts that are part of CentOS), and install python 2.6 using the "make altinstall" mechanism. This is described in the README file in the Python sources:

"If you have a previous installation of Python that you don't
want to replace yet, use

make altinstall

This installs the same set of files as "make install" except it
doesn't create the hard link to "python" named "python" and
it doesn't install the manual page at all."

The two versions will then happily coexist on the same system! Executing "python" gives your current Python 2.4 unmolested. While running "python2.6" gives you the current version of Python.

(BTW, I am not familiar with CentOS, but ubuntu has prepackaged Python 3 versions available that you can just install. These packages use the same mechanism to install python 3 alongside the default python 2.6. Perhaps CentOS already has a python 2.6 package like this?)

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add asp support to project web  
Written by nicka101 the 2 Dec 09 at 19:21. Global category: Project Web. New
this would enable people to make their base of operations (project web) dynamic and interactive. this would also allow developers to collect data and feedback from users and improve their programs using this (i know this can already be done but an account is needed). With this many people could come and comment on the program. This would also allow developers the ability to add guestbooks to their project web and developer web. there is no current support for asp on project web.
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Solution #1: add the support
Written by nicka101 the 2 Dec 09 at 19:21.
I believe that the best solution would be to add asp functionality to project web space and allow developers almost free reign over their space and their project space.
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Solution #2: Install Mono and Mod_Mono
Written by eslusorenko the 16 Feb 11 at 14:42.
Download and Install Mono and Mod_mono

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some demos require webdav  
Written by rzorzorzo the 22 Nov 09 at 09:18. Global category: Project Web. New
my demo requires read webdav access to the project web.
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Solution #1: enable webdav for project web
Written by rzorzorzo the 22 Nov 09 at 09:18.
enabling webdav for write access for the project owner may also be a further alternative to the existing access per sftp


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Authentication on project web pages  
Written by slicer the 9 Nov 09 at 15:16. Global category: Project Web. New
Many project web pages contain collaborative systems, such as wikis, where users can create an account, login and edit. If no protection is added, such systems are quickly targeted by spammers and other malicious users. Furthermore, there often is no connection between the username people choose on the project pages and the one they are registered with on sf.net.
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Solution #1: OpenID provider, available from project web pages
Written by slicer the 9 Nov 09 at 15:16.
sf.net already uses OpenID authentication for users. Start offering OpenID provider services, and allow this to be used both from project web pages and the rest of the net.
Doing so would allow any project associated with sourceforge to securely authenticate users to their matching sf.net username, no matter where their webpages are hosted.
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Solution #2: HTTPS with basic authentication
Written by slicer the 9 Nov 09 at 15:24.
Just like the hosted applications, set up https for the project webpages hosted on *.sourceforge.net (using a wildcard cert) and authenticate against the sf.net user database. This will give project pages hosted on sf.net access to the username.
To avoid user confusion, set up the 401 authentication error page to show a short error message and redirect to the non-https equivalent. It probably also makes sense to reject spiders to the https pages, to avoid these ending up in search engines.


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Current version of doxygen is outdated  
Written by dergraaf the 29 Oct 09 at 23:19. Global category: Project Web. New
The currently installed version of doxygen (1.4.7) produces very unstructured HTML which makes it nearly impossible to change its look via CSS.

Furthermore doxygen isn't handling UTF-8 correctly which leads to problems with umlauts and other special characters.
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Solution #1: Update doxygen to more recent version
Written by dergraaf the 29 Oct 09 at 23:19.
I am working with doxygen 1.5.8 here which has none of the described problems.

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bzr command not available in the web environment  
Written by ewl the 26 Oct 09 at 07:58. Global category: Project Web. New
Hello,

/usr/bin/bzr (Bazaar) is available under the shell environment but NOT under the web environment, i.e. CGI scripts can't make use of the bzr command (cvs, git, svn, etc are all there).

That would be quite critical and surely relatively easy to fix...

Thanks, Eric

PS: I've already been told that it's a feature, not a bug: https://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/sourceforge/ticket/5987
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Solution #1: Add bzr command to web environment
Written by ewl the 26 Oct 09 at 07:58.
Pretty easy: install the bzr command like all other version controlling systems.

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Having only CGI for Python can be a performance issue  
Written by necoro the 18 Sep 09 at 17:24. Global category: Project Web. New
There are some great web application frameworks, which are written in Python. Examples are Django, Pylones, or CherryPy. Unfortunately the only way to run them on the Web Platform is via CGI. This might be ok for quite small programs -- but as CGI spawns a new process for each request, this will result in a major overhead for larger projects: Not only to launch a new interpreter and interpreting the source files, also the non-ability to use internal caching in the application itself (if it has to parse template files or similar things).
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Solution #1: Add mod_wsgi to Apache
Written by necoro the 18 Sep 09 at 17:24.
There is a module for Apache named mod_wsgi ( http://code.google.com/p/modwsgi/ ), which works similar to mod_php for PHP. Adding this to the apache installation should deal with the problems given.

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Ruby gems installed in hosted environment  
Written by aristedes the 7 Sep 09 at 02:34. Global category: Project Web. New
Ruby gems are an essential part of almost every Rails application. Making it easier for users to host Rails applications (eg. for demo purposes) at Sourceforge would be very useful.
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Solution #1: Provives rubygem in hosted environment
Written by aristedes the 7 Sep 09 at 02:34.
There is a workaround: http://weacemethod.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/HowToInstallRubyGemsSF.NET

But that is somewhat awkward. A better approach provided by SF would be much nicer.

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