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Hello every one,
I am new on this forum and I would appreciate your help and support.
I am a computer desktop support, but am Interested to create a forum on my web site. But I do not have much skills in web developing and I would appreciate that if you could tell me what are the requirements for creating a forum.
Thank you
You just need a decent web hosting. Check the requirements (and the install instructions), you don't need to understand what they are just to make sure your hosting comply with them.
Then, download PunBB, extract it, upload the files to your server, and follow the install guide.
Overall, it's quite simple.
DOWNLOAD:
Folder: punbb-1.2.15 / COPYING(terminal window) / docs / extras / upload
In the docs folder I open up the install.html file and here is what I get:
Installation
1. Copy/upload all contents of the directory upload/ into the directory where you want to run your forums.
2. Run install.php from the forum root directory (e.g. open http://mydomain/myforums/install.php in your browser). Follow the instructions.
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I upload the upload folder only.
I use the url http://mydomain/myfoldername/imstall.php
I make a config.php file and upload that into 'myfoldername'
I try to chmod the cache folder or it's two files: index.html & .htaccess and I hit a brick wall.
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I posted this in another thread a few minutes...sorry. I was writing the post or signing up when this one was answered and bumped up.
thank you for any help
oops!
egads!
:roll eyes:
here is the answer:
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2007-08-22 09:08:00
yemgi
Senior Member
From: Crawley, West Sussex
Registered: 2007-04-10
Posts: 121
E-mail Website
Re: installing forum
chmod is a unix command to change the rights on files and folders
You can modify the rights with your ftp client by right clicking on the folders then choose properties. 777 allows every one to read, write and execute files in the folder
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so what do I owe you guys/gals?
lol
Thanks guys for your replys, but the two posts have a bit confused me because that's not I asked, but anyway I appreciate your time to reply.
I have a good host from www.1and1.co.uk and it also supports PHP but I don't know wheather if I need any SQL/MYSQL or not ?
1_ Do I need to install Punbb in my root folder on the server where my web applications are ?
2_ Do I need to configure it later on after installing it or before ?
Thank you
You need a SQL server. Either PostgreSQL, MySQL or SQLite.
Upload them to wherever you want them in the root dir. If you want the uri to be the base domain name, then the files go in the root folder. If you want a base domain/path scenario, then upload the folder to whatever named folder/path within the root dir, i.e:
http://your.domain/ [The PunBB files would need to be in the root web dir]
http://your.domain/forums/ [The PunBB files would need to be in a dir named forums in the root web dir]
Install it, then configure it.
have a look here
Yes those video tutorials are great to use the PUNBB itself which is great. But as I asked for the requirements in the beggining of my question that is what I have been consentrating on yet.
Just to make some more clarification.
So now, instaling MYSQL on for example a Linux box making it a web server right ?
Then installing the PUNBB in a rootfolder of my host am I correct ?
yes but it is your host that activate mySQL for your account
Yes those video tutorials are great to use the PUNBB itself which is great. But as I asked for the requirements in the beggining of my question that is what I have been consentrating on yet.
Just to make some more clarification.
So now, instaling MYSQL on for example a Linux box making it a web server right ?
Then installing the PUNBB in a rootfolder of my host am I correct ?
What have I written above? Stop asking the question if you're going to ignore the answers.
Also, no. Installing MySQL does not make your Linux box a webserver. Installing a httpd daemon makes it a webserver. You install in the web root dir or some child directory thereof.
Sorry MATTF to annoy you. I have not ignored any reply sent by every one.
I am hopefully going home and start installing and messing some thing around ! I hope I will not ask you stupid question to annoy you or others as well ! But guys I really appreciate your help and all your replyes were very useful.
Thank you very much
Not annoyed. Just dislike having to repeat everything twice in the same thread. 
If you're setting this up on a hosted server, make sure all the prerequisite software and facilities are available. If you are setting this up on your own server, you need a SQL server, a httpd server, Php and PunBB, (obviously).
Final question MattF.
I am trying to build my own server, and using Linux SUSE 10.0 but why can't I use MYSQL instead of SQL ?
Thank you
You can use MySQL and in fact you should. Basically just install a standard LAMP setup unless you have a burning desire to run lighty or litespeed etc.
Guys I have been looking every where to download MYSQL and instal it on my Linux machine but wherever I visit I get the trial version or I have to pay for it and I thought there is free version for linux but have not been able to find them yet.
thanks MattF. in the community download on that link which is http://mysql.org/downloads/mysql/5.0.html#downloads as you can see there are lots of different package for linux, which one would you please recommend ?
Thank you
Download the package for whichever distro you are using, or download the source and compile it yourself.
I downloaded all the 8 files for "SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 RPM (x86) downloads" because I am running Sues 10.0.
Will I run these 8 rpm files one by one or how do I combine them ?
Cisco, this is simple solutions to all your needs..
http://www.chsoftware.net/en/useware/wos/wos.htm
http://www.chsoftware.net/en/useware/wo … n=download
I use the se version of apache mysql they are lighter in size
list of things you need:
Apache2_SE (Version 2.2.4)
ImageMagick (Version 4.2.9)
MySQL5_SE (Version 5.0.41)
PHP5_SE (Version 5.2.3)
PHPMyAdmin (Version 2.10.2)
PunBB (Version 1.2.15) of course..
roughly around 10.12 megs ziped about 70 megs uncompressed!
WOS is very light and fast for a webserver allows you to setup and browse from any pc or even threw your own ip address. this is great for making intranets solutions for small companys.
i know the owner of the site and i got him to use punbb as his support forum
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XAMPP FOR LINUX
http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp-linux.html
all in one solutions..
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Guys thank you very much for all your help and supports !
I successully installed xampp and checked everything looks fine, but that is it so far and I do not know what is going on and how to use.
I may give you some more hard time later but this was the hardest I believe !
Thank you very much for all of you, you have been very helpful
anytime cisco....
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Dear all,
After a long time of attempting and trying to fix the problem I was facing, later on I realised that my host was not supporting the Linux PHP platform. I changed it over with my host and domain provider and now it should be fine.
After I tried it tonight I faced the same problem and then decided to take the screen shot and showing you where the error message shows up:
The below is where I try to complete the installation process on my domain after I have already copied and uploaded the content of the upload folder then when I get the below page I think I am doing something wrong here that's why I get the error message:
Please help me through these steps and let me know what information exactly I need to insert:
http://itatlantic.co.uk/error%20message
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