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Ray Media Server Instillation

I had my site installed on a shared server by someone who must have had root access or at least shell to enable him to install Ray Media Server. I have had a friend trying to teach me the ins and outs of instillation, FTP and quite a few other things. And in the process we deleted the entire site to do a fresh instillation of everything. Now I have learned that I need at least shell access to upload and install Ray Media Server or it can not be done at all.

I do not understand the technical problems involved in why one aspect of Dolphin could be uploaded with an FTP program as simple as FileZilla** but another aspect of it can not be. Would it be possible for this version to be altered in such a way that it could be done now or in future versions to allow Ray to be installed with out the need for root or shell access? Or are there real difficult technical reasons why this is not already available to us to install it that way?

We did have a lot of redundant and trivial work such as changing settings repeatedly during the instillation of Dolphin itself which made it tedious and a bit time consuming that my friend said we probably would not have had those difficulties if we had shell or root access...is that one of the reasons why Ray can not be installed with out shell due to the fact that it would simply be too complicated...or are there more reasons as well? Or could it be at some future time capable of being installed with out higher access on the server?

Filezilla**   (which IS a free program and extremely easy to use and simple enough if you already know much about FTP or have someone to explain it to you but there is virtually no documentation on this program if you do not understand the ins and outs of FTP but there is a forum for its use)

Recently the Surrealist Anarcho/Punkish/Socialist wing of the Dolphin Society and Family went into trace and collectively saw a future in which ALL mods and widgets that work with any Dolphin program will be given away free of charge, in fact some people will be paid to take them off our hands so as to make room for newer and freer ones...ONCE THE PLANET HAS BEEN DISARMED!
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totallyfreak
totallyfreak 175 days agocomment permalink
  
INSTALLATION
 
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CyberXing
CyberXing 175 days agocomment permalink
  
Bramin,

Some installations reguire only FTP (File Transfer Protocol) to upload the files ,and they are able to work off the "user" based permissions.

Unix systems use processes and ID's , with users having different access to different parts of the machine.

Keeping this simple, when doing a installation of a program that requires access to system level functions and or calls, it would require specific access and user rights to do such.

You can FTP the RMS package to the server, but will need shell access to run the commands and do the installation.

In General, Installing files via SSH (shell access) is much prefered and much quicker, but it requires more knowledge of the system and opens the ability for you to really hose your system if you dont know what you are doing.

Unix is not PLUG and PLAY. One wrong command and you need to make a physical visit to the machine to bring it back to life.

Cheers,
CyberXing
 
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AMariotti
AMariotti 174 days agocomment permalink
  
Where can I find someone to install the product on my server. I've installed it and followed instructions to a T. Getting errors and just want someone to do it - Where can I go>>
 
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ratansingh
ratansingh 135 days agocomment permalink
  
hi

can i install rms on my shared hosting sever
 
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