Vnews Newsgroup Manager

PLEASE NOTE, THIS IS VERY OLD ARCHIVE INFORMATION AND MAY NOT FUNCTION ON NEW SERVERS

Vnews Newsgroup Manager
To manage Vnews newsgroups online, access the following URL using your web browser.

http://YOUR-DOMAIN.NAME/news/news.cgi

This will bring up the web-based Vnews Newsgroup Manager. You can use the Vnews Newsgroup Manager to add, edit, and remove newsgroups.

Features
A summary of Vnews Newsgroup Manager features follows.

Adding a Newsgroup
To add a newsgroup, click on [ADD NEWSGROUP]. The next page will ask for the name of the newsgroup, as well as the length till newsgroup expires, and maximum size, and whether a user can post or not post to this newsgroup.
Modifying a Newsgroup
Editing the newsgroup is very much the same, click on [edit] to start editing the selected newsgroup. The next page will ask all the same questions as adding a newsgroup.
Removing a Newsgroup
To remove a newsgroup click on [remove], the next page is where you will be asked if you are sure you want to remove this newsgroup. To remove the newsgroup, click on [yes], or [no] to keep the newsgroup, the next page will confirm that the newsgroup has been deleted.

NOTE: The Vnews Newsgroup Manager does not include user authentication. To add a username and password feature, see the following.

During the Vnews installation, a sample .htaccess file is installed in your ~/www/htdocs/news directory.

PLEASE NOTE, THIS IS OLD ARCHIVE INFORMATION AND MAY NOT FUNCTION ON NEW SERVERS