All, I am in need of an “auction app” and as there are none in the list of Virtualmin Apps, I hoped someone could make a recommendation from your experience? I would prefer open source, of course.. : ) Thx!
depends very much on your choice and coding experience (there are many out there of most flavours with some being quite adaptable given some extra work) a simple “github php free auction app” substitute your favourite language for “php” will expose too many to choose from.
i have a domain using one of them but i am sure there are others.
i cannot be too specific without introducing bias or advertising.
there are probably even “wordpress” options. i think it requires some project specification and a little ground work before deciding.
not used these joomla based auction extensions
Check these and tell me which one you like:
I actually liked Auktiva’s vibe and feel. It’s also well-documented. The downside is that it’s very new and likely has bugs.
I added an installer for Auktiva and sent it to you, @jimdunn, so you can try it out. You can add it from the “System Settings ⇾ Web App Installers” page.
Note that this web app is relatively resource-intensive, so you may need more disk space and RAM, or additional swap, than usual. It worked for me with a 4+ GB disk quota and 4 GB of extra swap, but failed with 2 GB of disk space and 1.5 GB of RAM.
Wow, I did NOT expect such an outpouring of support on this – so EXCELLENT!!! And I have plenty of disk space and ram on my production server, so no issue there. I will check them out, and yes, got the perl script!!
Please let us know which one you end up picking 
So far none. I think Auktiva really looks nice, but I’m not qualified to configure/interact with NODE.JS so that is slow going.
from a server point of view you should not need to, as long as it is up-to-date
the app is the app programmers job so it should be plain sailing
just watchout for what is added through package.json and other dot files
Unfortunately I also have to “service” it… I was able to install it on the server and it looked good, I was able to log in using the system account… but when trying to configure the .conf file to get “send an email” working… nothing would work. They offer several “send an email” options, but none would work.
Has anyone else been able to get Auktiva to send an email? It’s a shame they don’t use “sendmail” or “PHPsendmail” out of the box – everything else (usually) does.
do they not use “nodemailer” most/many node.js apps use that package not php i know but it is node so why go backwards
i have not looked at Auktiva
I’m the developer of auction.fish, I saw this referrer in my logs.
I admit I have not used the other packages referenced here extensively, but I believe that auction.fish is probably the best auction platform you’ll find anywhere, free or paid. You can find the source at: GitHub - iragm/fishauctions: Run online and in-person auctions · GitHub and I think you can probably get a production deployment up and running in less than an hour (if not, open an issue).
When I started developing the project 5 years ago, there were no other FOSS auction packages worth considering. While I have targeted auction.fish at fish clubs, there’s nothing about the source that’s specific to fish (there are a couple other hobbies using the source on their own platforms).
Feedback from users has been overwhelmingly positive and of the clubs that have tried the platform, retention has been around 90-95%.
I treat all usability questions as a serious issue to be addressed, and this approach has paid off; even as the user base has grown to thousands of daily visitors, the support load for me has actually gone down.
I think I am pretty close to saturating the fish hobby and I would love it if others contributed to the project, with feedback about usability and desired third party integrations being most helpful.
Hey Ira!
We discussed which auction web apps to add to the automated Virtualmin script installer, and for now, I’ve only added Auktiva, not Auction.fish—at least not yet.
The goal is to make the usually tedious and sometimes complex process of installing a web app a one-click process.
Do you have a detailed manual on how to install Auction.fish?
It’s in the readme.md on Github, here: GitHub - iragm/fishauctions: Run online and in-person auctions · GitHub
There’s a ton of third party integrations which are 99% of the setup. Many/most of which can easily be stripped out if there’s only a single club using the platform.
If there’s interest, I can easily go through and cut the third party stuff down to the bare essentials, although a lot of the polish comes from stuff like one click sign in with Google, Google maps integration, push notifications, etc.