activeCollab One-Click Install on Dreamhost

One-Click install of activeCollab on Dreamhost

Today something really exciting happened: Dreamhost have deployed activeCollab 0.6 as a one click install for their customers.

There is no file upload or stuff like that. Go to your control panel, under the Goodies select One-Click Installs and select activeCollab from the list. You will be offered to create a new database or to select an existing one. When you submit the form you'll receive an email with the instructions how to set up an administrator account and provide your company details.

This is really great because it will bring activeCollab in front of the users who just want things to work, not to hack their way around.

Thanks to Dreamhost for this move!

Posted on: 2006-07-25 7:46

Comments

avatar Ben Tremblay 2006-07-25 9:21 #1
Hey, I just noticed that these posts don’t carry date/time!

My site is at DreamHost so you can be sure I’ll be installing ACollab immediately!
avatar Ben Tremblay 2006-07-25 10:12 #2
Well, not /exactly/ 1-click … aCollab requires PHP5 … which DreamHost supports. But I’m not absolutely positive that this change is entirely trouble-free. So: it might be simple, and it might be easy … heck, it might be fool-proof. But those are maybes … and that’s not 1-click.

I’ll look into this for sure.

ben
avatar David Russell 2006-07-25 10:35 #3
I didn’t need any further validation that activeCollab was an excellent app. But this might bring a few more fans into the mix. :)

To everyone involved, great work!
avatar Ilija Studen 2006-07-25 12:05 #4
I’ll redesign the installation process so people can make one click installers without any problems or hacks. Check out this bug for idea and progress on this issue.

Basically, idea is to make installation do only the system jobs: set write permissions, create tables in database and writes config file (things that control panels do the best). Administrator and owner company creation will be moved to the first run. So, system tasks are done by control panel, all script level configuration and settings are done by the script on the first run.

What do you think?
avatar Rafael Montano 2006-07-25 5:30 #5
I took advantage of this. activeCollab seems to be the best one i’ve seen for along time and I was going to Drupal site for collaboration!! activeCollab is great so far.
avatar Nelson Rodriguez-Peña 2006-07-25 7:28 #6
Hi, I just installed activeCollab in my DreamHost account and I’m amazed. The installation process is really simple, as simple as WordPress which is a good thing. I’m currently using PhpCollab, it was a good thing fot the time it was activelly being developed, so I thought I’d wait until ActiveCollab reached version 1 to use it, but after taking a quick look, I’ll start right away. Thanks a lot for such a great work.
avatar Janson 2006-07-27 3:39 #7
activeCollab is great but please… change the default font size. It’s too darn small.
avatar Unofficial DreamHost Blog 2006-07-27 4:15 #8
Trackback: New One-Click Install: activeCollab.
avatar David Newberger 2006-07-27 3:23 #9
ActiveCollab was a breeze to install with the Dreamhost 1-click install.

I had it setup in about 3 minutes tops.
avatar Ilija Studen 2006-07-28 7:32 #10
I’m really glad to hear that. We’ll try to make it even easier (< 1min? ;) ). Goal is to make it easy to 1. make one click installers; 2. make one click installers really easy to use.
avatar Rob McAlister 2006-07-28 4:29 #11
Funny thing is…

I already had activeCollab setup in my DreamHost account before the 1-click install was available. It is very promising for the project management I need to do.

I’ve been using netOffice/phpCollab forks for a while, but they’re not good in usability and neither is maintained or updated regularly. DotProject has feature overkill for my requirements.

ActiveCollab seems to be just what I was looking for even though I had stopped looking: the functionality of BaseCamp on my own hosting account with no additional monthly costs.
avatar Jake Kappus 2006-07-29 6:49 #12
Oh sure, NOW they add it as a one click install. I installed it on Dreamhost last week. Thankfully the install was easy as pie.

I’m looking forward to using this tool for my projects!
avatar Aaron Kassover 2006-07-29 1:52 #13
Dreamhost one-click installs are great. I just installed it on my personal DH account – very quick set-up process (once the dreamhost install-bot got around to it) and the application looks great! We’re heavy basecamp users right now. ActiveCollab still doesn’t have much of the AJAX bells and whistles that make BC really shine, but the core functionality is certainly looking very good. Keep up the good work!
avatar Pascal Venier 2006-07-30 4:31 #14
It would be nice if BlueHost did it as well!
avatar Thomas Slatin 2006-07-30 6:59 #15
DreamHost is a wonderful company! I’m installing the software right now!
avatar Neville Hobson 2006-07-31 5:27 #16
I’ve just installed activeCollab via my Dreamhost 1-Click install. Very simple procedure. Quick, too. Then, dive into the install and have a quick look around.

One immediate request. When you config your own profile, it has options to choose an IM client. The primary one I use is Skype and that’s not a choice! Can you add that as an option, please?

It all looks very promising and I plan to get to know it. Nice development work!
avatar chillstar 2006-08-02 6:38 #17
Hi, another DH 1 clicker here- have added a couple of projects and it’s looking great- I’m impressed. Thanks to all for your hard work on this.

Looking forward to cancelling my subscription with a certain other service :)

Cheers,

C*
avatar forbairt 2006-08-03 4:43 #18
And yet again a 1 clicker here … cheers great product … been playing with it on and off since yesterday

Will no doubt install it and get modding shortly … thanks to dreamhost for bringing this one to my attention .. and to you for making it :)
avatar another dreamhost user 2006-08-03 11:47 #19
Just discovered this through DreamHosts 1click as well…and was ecstatic since I had been searching for an opensource BaseCamp alternative. Awesome! I’m setting it up at home and at the non-profit I work for.

Thanks!!
avatar noslzzp 2006-08-03 2:44 #20
umm… Can we stop with the DreamHost spam garbage please?
avatar M.Shepherd 2006-08-04 4:52 #21
I’m from dreamhost as well (thppt noslzzp) and frankly the addition of this one-click install was not only fantastic but acollab already works better than any other online project/knowledge management app I’ve used. I want to offer my sincere thanks to acollab for putting me two months ahead of schedule on a site feature and Dreamhost for thinking of the users. Now if I could only DH to have a Laszlo one-click install =).
avatar Deniss 2006-08-15 3:05 #22
Installed your product with the Dreamhost. Amazing product. Very pleased. Thank you.
avatar Jeremy 2006-08-19 3:31 #23
I love this app and I think Dreamhost is great too – esp the one click installs. Get the file functionality in the next release out asap! I was forced to use basecamp until then.
avatar Blaze 2006-08-23 4:05 #24
I dont think you can stop the DH spam because so many people use it and generally its great.

I however have noticed a problem with AC on DH. I setup an account last night and installed AC manually (i didnt know there was a 1click). Nonetheless it was painless anyway.

My problem is that things seem to be extremely slow. Pages are rendering anywhere between 2 or 3 all the way up to 8 seconds… and thats before they are served. For example I just loaded a page and this was the execution time: “Executed in 4.2255780696869 seconds”

Would this be a DH issue or a AC issue? It’s quite confusing.
avatar Ilija Studen 2006-08-23 7:56 #25
Hi Blaze,

It is known that activeCollab is not a speed king. Code base is still pretty “young” and we (well, I) haven’t invested much time in code optimization.

But it is not that slow. I’ve noticed performance issues on DH, mostly with pages that use many DB queries. Maybe a slow DB server? One more reason to introduce a better caching on the database interface level.
avatar Blaze 2006-08-30 3:02 #26
Ok so i guess I can hope to wait for a faster caching in a future version. Maybe I should also take this up with DreamHost to see what they can do to help also.

Thanks for the reply Ilija & also thanks for all the effort with your program.

Cheers from Australi :)
avatar Hugo 2006-09-13 2:44 #27
Hi, I´m using activeCollab in a dreamhost server, the last days were crazy, the servers were very slow, but since yesterday are working very well.
I just have a little problem, I can´t upload a file bigger than 6Mb, the problem is the server?, or I have to modify something in aC?
Cheers from Perú
avatar Ilija Studen 2006-09-13 2:51 #28
You are using 0.6 and file uploading has been 100% changed in 0.7 so any advice I give you now will be invalid in two weeks. activeCollab doesn’t really handle any file upload. It just moves file to a specific location when BROWSER handled all the hard work. Check your configuration (max POST size in php.ini) etc.
avatar Hugo 2006-09-14 5:28 #29
yes Ilija, you are right, was the php.ini, I been trying to set up but it´s to much complicated, did you know an easy way???
Thank you
avatar Ilija Studen 2006-09-15 2:17 #30
To be honest – no, but the procedure is not that complicated.

1. Open php.ini
2. Find upload_max_filesize property and change it to 32M
3. Find post_max_size property and change it to 32M
4. Save file
5. Restart Apache (or whatever web server you are using)

That should do the trick.

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