Vbulletin Tutorial

[Rix]

yeah it is now a sticky

seeming as every1 is having problems with setting up vbulletin
i have decided to make a tutorial

You must make sure you have a legal copy of vbulletin and a host

step1.
go to vbulletin
and download
http://www.vbulletin.com/

Step2.
Next extract all files to a folder on your computer
and then look in the folder for the includes folder
in side that you will find a file called
config.php.new
rename it to config.php

Step3
Configuring the Config.php

  
              
/*======================================================================*\ 
|| #################################################################### || 
|| # vBulletin 3.0.0 - Licence Number 1a2b3c4 
|| # ---------------------------------------------------------------- # || 
|| # All PHP code in this file is ©2000-2004 Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd. # || 
|| # This file may not be redistributed in whole or significant part. # || 
|| # ---------------- VBULLETIN IS NOT FREE SOFTWARE ---------------- # || 
|| # http://www.vbulletin.com | http://www.vbulletin.com/license.html # || 
|| #################################################################### || 
\*======================================================================*/ 

/*-------------------------------------------------------*\ 
| ****** NOTE REGARDING THE VARIABLES IN THIS FILE ****** | 
+---------------------------------------------------------+ 
| If you get any errors while attempting to connect to    | 
| MySQL, you will need to email your webhost because we   | 
| cannot tell you the correct values for the variables    | 
| in this file.                                         | 
\*-------------------------------------------------------*/ 

// ****** DATABASE SERVER NAME ****** 
// This is the hostname or IP address of the database server. 
// It is in the format HOST:PORT. If no PORT is specified, 3306 is used. 
// If you are unsure of what to put here, leave it at the default value. 
$servername = 'localhost'; 

// ****** DATABASE USERNAME & PASSWORD ****** 
// This is the username and password you use to access MySQL. 
// These must be obtained through your webhost. 
$dbusername = 'Change this it is usally ur cpanel login name; 
$dbpassword = 'change this it is usally ur cpanel password'; 

// ****** DATABASE NAME ****** 
// This is the name of the database where your vBulletin will be located. 
// This must be created by your webhost. 
$dbname = 'This is ur database name usally ur loign name eg phoenix_forum'; 

// ****** TECHNICAL EMAIL ADDRESS ****** 
// If any database errors occur, they will be emailed to the address specified here. 
// Leave this blank to not send any emails when there is a database error. 
$technicalemail = 'dbmaster@example.com'; 

// ****** PERSISTENT CONNECTIONS ****** 
// This option allows you to turn persistent connections to MySQL on or off. 
// The difference in performance is negligible for all but the largest boards. 
// If you are unsure what this should be, leave it off. 
// 0 = Off; 1 = On 
$usepconnect = 0; 

// ****** PATH TO ADMIN & MODERATOR CONTROL PANELS ****** 
// This setting allows you to change the name of the folders that the admin and 
// moderator control panels reside in. You may wish to do this for security purposes. 
// Please note that if you change the name of the directory here, you will still need 
// to manually change the name of the directory on the server. 
$admincpdir = 'admincp'; 
$modcpdir = 'modcp'; 

// ****** USERS WITH ADMIN LOG VIEWING PERMISSIONS ****** 
// The users specified here will be allowed to view the admin log in the control panel. 
// Users must be specified by *ID number* here. To obtain a user's ID number, 
// view their profile via the control panel. If this is a new installation, leave 
// the first user created will have a user ID of 1. Seperate each userid with a comma. 
$canviewadminlog = '1'; 

// ****** USERS WITH ADMIN LOG PRUNING PERMISSIONS ****** 
// The users specified here will be allowed to remove ("prune") entries from the admin 
// log. See the above entry for more information on the format. 
$canpruneadminlog = '1'; 

// ****** USERS WITH QUERY RUNNING PERMISSIONS ****** 
// The users specified here will be allowed to run queries from the control panel. 
// See the above entries for more information on the format. 
// Please note that the ability to run queries is quite powerful. You may wish 
// to remove all user IDs from this list for security reasons. 
$canrunqueries = ''; 

// ****** UNDELETABLE / UNALTERABLE USERS ****** 
// The users specified here will not be deletable or alterable from the control panel by any users. 
// To specify more than one user, separate userids with commas. 
$undeletableusers = ''; 

// ****** SUPER ADMINISTRATORS ****** 
// The users specified below will have permission to access the administrator permissions 
// page, which controls the permissions of other administrators 
$superadministrators = ''; 

// Prefix that your vBulletin tables have in the database. 
// For example: $tableprefix = 'vb3_'; 
$tableprefix = ''; 

// Prefix that all vBulletin cookies will have 
// For example 
$cookieprefix = 'bb'; 

/*======================================================================*\ 
|| #################################################################### 
|| # Downloaded: 11:22, Thu Jan 15th 2004 
|| # CVS: $RCSfile: config.php.new,v $ - $Revision: 1.19 $ 
|| #################################################################### 
\*======================================================================*/ 

   postamble(); 

Step 4
Upload to ur Sever usally takes 1-1 1/2 hours

Step 5 go to the installer
www.example.cpm/install/install.php
you need to have your vbulletin number handy
and then you just need to follow the steps then you are nearly done

or do this

For anyone with cpanle, if youd rather have the upload take minutes rather than a few hours, simply upload the zip file, and use cpanles exstarct function to take the files out online, they will alos be in the correct order due to how they were packed in to the zip orgnaly

(delate the zip once its exstarcted)

step 6
after the installer has finished delete install.php
and your now able to use ur forum

Step 7
Uploading skins
Find the file in the skin folder
usally sumthing.xml
and upload that name the template the sam as this file
and then upload the file to ya sever

if you have any other problems
just pm me and i'll help you

hope this helps

[Luckyrare]

Very Good

Rep +

[jamie5k]

considering it tells u this when you install it i dont see the point of it.

[Luckyrare]

Same here but people dont read manuals.

Still good

[Rix]

what it tells them what to change

[BlueTails]

Nice, Helped Me Setup Mine

[gum]

don't you have to pay for vbulletin?

[BlueTails]

Yes, VERY COSTLY

[Mentor]

For anyone with cpanle, if youd rather have the upload take minutes rather than a few hours, simply upload the zip file, and use cpanles exstarct function to take the files out online, they will alos be in the correct order due to how they were packed in to the zip orgnaly

(delate the zip once its exstarcted)

[iRoss]

:s Why not just use FTP ?!