PHPBB Tutorial

[Tomm]

Before you can even think about installing phpbb you need to make sure your webserver has the folling requirements:

A webserver or web hosting account running on any major Operating System
A SQL database system, one of:
MySQL (3.22 or higher)
PostgreSQL 7.0.3 or higher (preferably 7.1.x or 7.2.x)
MS SQL Server (7 or 2000) directly or via ODBC
MS Access (2000 or XP) via ODBC
PHP (4.0.3 and above) with support for the database you intend to use above

1)Well to start off with point your web browser to: www.phpbb.com

2)Download phpbb and open the file you just downloaded, unzip it, then open the unziped file.

3)Upload the folder to your website.

4)Change the permission of config.php to 666 (-rw-rw-rw-) within your FTP program - please note if you are useing internet explorer as your FTP program you canot edit the permissions of config.php. I recomend you use Wise-FTP or SmartFTP.

5)Point your web browser to: http://www.mydomain.com/forum/install/install.php (basicly type in where you uploaded your forum then add /install/install.php).

6)Fill in all the requested information and click 'submit'



7)Change the permissions on config.php to 644 (-rw-r--r--)

8)Click the 'Complete Installation' button or go back to your install file above.



9)Delete the /install and /contrib folders



Admin Control Panel

After you install phpbb you will be taken to the admin contol panel index page. This is where you can manage your phpbb board. I will be explaning a bit more about this later on.



Adding Forums

When you first install your board I suppost you want to start adding forums as soon as you can so follow these step on how to make your forums.

1)Click 'Management' under Forum Admin on the admin control panel navigation.



2)Delete everything that is there by clicking the 'Delete' link on Test Forum 1 then on Test category 1.

3)Start by adding a category. Type your category name in the box provided and click Create New Category.



4)Next you need to add forums to your category. Type your forum name in the box provided and click Create New Forum.



5)Repeat steps 3 and 4 as needed.

Please note i am going to add some screenshots and info on what to do in the admin cp etc. in a bit.

Hope this helps you!

[Homesrfan]

No offense, but why are people making these Install Tuts?

Thats good... but phpBB comes with Instructions doesn't it? 0.o

[Tomm]

i am also working on a admincp tut to add to this

[Tomm]

done how to add forums

[Mentor]

No offense, but why are people making these Install Tuts?

Thats good... but phpBB comes with Instructions doesn't it? 0.o

I think its some sort of mental block with alot of the members of this forum, Liek they have some sort of deep seated grudge agaist reading the readme files supplised with scripts, and have to find an online one, writen for no real prurpoes, i mean have you seen the amount of installing stuff tutorilas?
Why is it people just wont read readme / instrcuton files anymore "/

[zainx]

and also searching this forum or searching the offical forum for help

[jamie5k]

why are ppl spamming this forum with stupid tutorials, and plus havent we already got a forum tutorial :S

[Homesrfan]

Well yeah, I wrote it but its not very detailed... I will try to update it sometime soon.

[Tomm]

anything u want me to add to it?

[Anderman]

Im getting pretty annoyed of these posts
Theres instructions writen by the software developers in the actual software
And its not exacly hard to set up ._.