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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

The below is what I have in "/opt/lampp/var/mysql"

.   cdcol      linux.pid  mysql.sock  test
..  linux.err  mysql      phpmyadmin

sorry guys I fell a sleep as I got too tired trying sorting this out.

I know there is no password by default on any XAMPP feature and I alraedy set password and secured all of them.

Yes, I have already send the error message above if you notice but here it is again:

" An error occured on line 58 in file /homepages/38/d149487439/htdocs/HaveYourSayOnLine/forum/include/dblayer/mysql.php.

PunBB reported: Unable to connect to MySQL server. MySQL reported: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (2) "

1-- I uploaded all the stuff in upload folder of the installation package into my forum folder on my site.
2--I went to the browser to install it but when I started filling the boxes asking me for the details such as
A-- Database type  > I put "MySQL"
B--Database server hostname > I put "localhost"
C--Database name > I am not sure about this name but I put "MySQL"
D--Enter your database username and password :
1-- Database username> Not sure but but I put "MySQL" and tried XAMPP and LAMPP as well.
2-- Database password >  I tried the password which I set in the first point.
E--Table prefix > Left it blank.
F--Administrator username > I chose a name for it which is five letters.
G-- Password & Confirm password > I confirmed the password.
H--Administrator's e-mail > I put an email address here as well.
I--Base URL > I created forum folder on my site and for this Base URL I put for example: "http://BBB.CO./FORUM" and infact it chose it itself by default.

It took me ages until I managed to install XAMPP and now I am confised by all the above suggestions !

I have been going through all XAMPP installation steps and have made sure everything is as it's mentioned and now I don't know what the problem excatly could be. I prefere to stick to XAMPP and see if I find the solution.

Yes, it is running fine.
but when I log in my XAMPP I notice the status for my PHPs are off as you can see below:

    PHP extension »eAccelerator«     DEACTIVATED    
    PHP extension »OCI8/Oracle«     DEACTIVATED

I tried turning them on but have not been able to because I don't know which command to use for turning them on.

Thank you

I dont knwo I have not received any reply from any one !!!

anyway, I decided to ask it in a different way as below:

Installing PunBB:

1 - Copy/upload all contents of the directory upload/ into the directory where you want to run your forums. ( Of course this means copying it to a directory in my domain, am I right ?)

2_ # Run install.php from the forum root directory (e.g. open http://mydomain/myforums/install.php in your browser). ( so will I run it from the directory where I keep the content of the whole PunBB files ? example: www.BBB.com, and I have a folder by the name of BBB where I upload the necessary files and will I run it from www.bbb/install.php ) ?

Thank you

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

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

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

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 ?