How To Set-up Your Forums..., Thought this should be useful to people, so this is how you do it.

[kraigsmt]

interesting thanks

[Edthefirst]

-snip-


Nevermind I got it figured out.

[Dazz]

Hey people, am new to all this trying to learn the basics stuff, am having trouble with the next step off my forum, i have uploaded all the files and it seems to be correct, but when i got to install SMF forum i come to this..



I tryed putting my account details in,(not sure what the LocalHost & Ports are, i just left them) but i got failed to connect to FTP Server... Am cluess tbh, i don't know if you have to make Mysql database or not, am still a noob to that also =/.

Thanks.

[TomH19]

My forum is fully uploaded and I can access it by going to /phpBB3/index.php.

I have added my own domain, but it goes to my main directory which gives me an error that I don't have the permission to access it. Can anyone please tell me how to make my domain go to the /phpBB3/index.php?

[Jacob]

Change your domain in the Administrator Control Panel.

Jacob.

[jt_928]

how do i unbecome a newbie

[x0duzz]

im not a big fan on phpbb3, i love the way phpbb2 is and the way the setup is. rather going into all the issues and bugs phpbb3 has. im hoping this setup flash video will help other views that need it!.

http://www.phpbb.com/support/tutorials/2.0/index.php?tid=0

[Red-Spiral]

It doesn't seem to work for me

phpbb3

I uploaded it created sqldatabase name and stuff

go to the install url thing

I get that Congrgulations, visit zymic thing

[Dave]

If you want help you have to give us your site's address.

You must have installed the forum into a folder instead of the root directory, probably: yoursite.vndv.com/phpbb3

[Snip3e]

- problem solved -

[dsmart]

I need some help getting PHPBB 3 on my server vndv.com is the sub-domain

and I have added a screen shots of what I need help on but it is in a PDF file

USE LINK BELOW:

PHPBB 3 Sreen Shots (HELP ME IF YOU CAN)

edited:
I want to make sure that PHP setting allow_url_fopen is enabled: (install page say NO in red)

I want it to say yes green unless that is not allow or not supported

thanks for anyones help

edit2:

here are some screen shots images I hope that will help you all out?

are the setting in the image below OK and/or RIGHT




1)PHP setting allow_url_fopen is enabled: (install page say NO in red)
and I want to trun it ON (GREEN)

2)and how do I get it to find imagemagick suppoert (attachment)

[Jdb19]

PHPBB3.0 problem with install

What do i need to do?

Files and Directories

Required - In order to function correctly phpBB needs to be able to access or write to certain files or directories. If you see “Not Found” you need to create the relevant file or directory. If you see “Unwritable” you need to change the permissions on the file or directory to allow phpBB to write to it. Where can i do that??

cache/:
Found, Unwritable

files/:
Found, Unwritable

store/:
Found, Unwritable

Optional files and directories

Optional - These files, directories or permission settings are not required. The installation system will attempt to use various techniques to create them if they do not exist or cannot be written to. However, the presence of these will speed installation.

config.php:
Found, Unwritable

images/avatars/upload/:
Found, Unwritable

[Red-Spiral]

go to these files and click on edit permission and make sure the box w is ticked

[Dave]

Jdb19: Safe mode cannot be turned off but if you read it says it is optional anyway, it is only required off for certain features for offsite avatar hosting so you can run phpbb3 fine without it off.

Apart from that you both have the same problem - file permissions.

If you are using FTP then right-click the given files and set the permissions to writeable by all.
If you are using the file manager than edit permission and tick all the boxes like Red-Spiral said.

[Red-Spiral]

If you need someone to do a fourm for you, just ask me.

Have a look here http://www.zymic.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=9398

I do SMF & phpBB

[dsmart]

Step1.Go into MYSQL managment and create, new database, and new user.
Step2. Find the files you uploaded belonging to phpbb, and you should find settings.php, open it with the editor
Step3. Put in your databse name and user name along with your password you just created in MYSQL.
Step4. Put in your URL ie: http://mysite.zxq.net/forum/install.php
Step5. Fill in the same information DB, ussername, password, and hopefully you should be on your way!.
Anyway hope this helps

where do I find the setting.php file I look in the DIR/foder that has all the files for PHPBB but I don't see the setting.php
and when I opne the zip file on my computer I don't see a setting.php file

I download PHPBB 3

PS:
I only look in the folder root (where the PHPBB files are not the Web site root)

PSS:
when I start the install and I get to the database settings page

I get the following error:

for mysql type

Test connection:

Could not connect to the database, see error message below.
Access denied for user 'databaseuser'@'localhost' (using password: YES)

NOTE:
that I had change the database user name only for this forum or post only
so I do not use databaseuser or I should say that user I did not make it I used another username but that listed here

and settings used are:
Database server hostname or DSN: localhost
Database name: hostname_forum
database username: mydatabase name
database Password: mydatabase password
Prefix for tables in database: phpbb_

NOTE:
that the data base name and username are not the some and their is no database name or username or password with the name phpbb_

I hope some one can help me out thanks

PS NOTE:
I do see a config.php file

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can any also tell me how to upload or add an attachment to this forum or how to post one thanks

[Camille]

where do I find the setting.php file I look in the DIR/foder that has all the files for PHPBB but I don't see the setting.php
and when I opne the zip file on my computer I don't see a setting.php file

I download PHPBB 3

PS:
I only look in the folder root (where the PHPBB files are not the Web site root)

PSS:
when I start the install and I get to the database settings page

I get the following error:

for mysql type

Test connection:

Could not connect to the database, see error message below.
Access denied for user 'databaseuser'@'localhost' (using password: YES)

NOTE:
that I had change the database user name only for this forum or post only
so I do not use databaseuser or I should say that user I did not make it I used another username but that listed here

and settings used are:
Database server hostname or DSN: localhost
Database name: hostname_forum
database username: mydatabase name
database Password: mydatabase password
Prefix for tables in database: phpbb_

NOTE:
that the data base name and username are not the some and their is no database name or username or password with the name phpbb_

I hope some one can help me out thanks

PS NOTE:
I do see a config.php file

There's not supposed to be a database with the name phpbb_

That's just the prefix for the tables when the installation is complete. Did your download come with instructions on how to install it? If it did, you might want to look at it - that's how I installed my forum, but I'm not using phpBB.

Make sure that the user that you created for the forum has access to the database that the forum will be using or else it won't work.

But I'm not the best person to come to for help when it comes to this kind of stuff.

The only forum that I've successfully installed manually is XMB. Sorry.

[Red-Spiral]

If anyone is having trouble with their forum PM me.

Also im doing a free service to upload SMF or PhpBB forum software aswell has wordpress which is a wordpress software.

i will have it doen in 24 hours.

Have a look here

http://www.zymic.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=9398

Thanks,
Red-Spiral

[nycjoshuad]

Could not connect to the database, see error message below.
Access denied for user 'gvtrpg'@'localhost' (using password: YES)
I'm having trouble installing my PHPBB3 forum.
I put
DSN: Localhost
port: 21
database name: gvtrpg_gvtrpg3
Database username: gvtrpg
database password:
Prefix for tables in database: phpbb_

[Red-Spiral]

the user name should be gvtrpg_gvtrpg

if that dont work try gvtrpg_gvtrpg3