anyone setup a forum before???

ace2109 · 3 Dec 2008 at 19:22

Hi guys,
i found this site last night, phpBB3 which gives you the code you need to setup a forum on your own website but im having some trouble getting it up and running.

Has anyone ever used this before, i am only used to simple webpages thats why i though this would be perfect for me, just upload and install, but i think i need to create a mySQL database but not sure how to set this up, i know how to create one through my domain control panel but thats about it, not even sure im doing this right?

any chance someone could help me out??

fishfishfish · 3 Dec 2008 at 19:50

I look after a few at work. To be perfectly honest, the vBulletin based forums I look after are more robust, easier to maintain and suffer less spam/bot attacks than the phpBB ones. If I were setting up another I wouldn't hesitate to use vBulletin, even if it isn't free or open source like phpBB. It scales very well, too. This site is running it.

The phpBB/vBulletin forums are probably your best bet. The response is usually pretty rapid.

ace2109 · 3 Dec 2008 at 23:06

Thanks fish, but for what i am looking at the minute phoBB3 is for me, mainly because of the cost. I totally agree with you that vBulletin is better but can really afford it at the minute hopefully in the future, if i start making some money out of this little project.

Pilky01 · 3 Dec 2008 at 23:08

Have a look at SMF its free and its really good and easy to use.

t31os · 3 Dec 2008 at 23:13

Pilky01 said:
Have a look at SMF its free and its really good and easy to use.

RE: the post above... here's a link.

http://www.simplemachines.org/

daz · 3 Dec 2008 at 23:14

If you have a host that usess cPanel or another popular control panel they may have auto-installers for a lot of popular scripts. PHPBB3, SMF, Wordpress etc installed in seconds.

Pilky01 · 3 Dec 2008 at 23:14

Most host should have an installer for it in Cpanel so it makes the forum and the database for you, it couldn't be easier

IS7Doji · 3 Dec 2008 at 23:14

lets see what i remember

1.Create db
2.Give db pword
3. Start to install etc will ask for all details
4. ** prob need to chage a few permissions to 777 if its linux server will tell you what files/folders normall upload/avater/config and common i think

But yea if u need any help drop me an email or msn me, my details should be in my trust

tres · 4 Dec 2008 at 08:57

Create database
Create a user & password for the database
Give the user full rights to the database

then start the install script

ace2109 · 4 Dec 2008 at 12:31

im using streamline.net to host everything, has anyone used it before to do this??

tres · 4 Dec 2008 at 12:48

have you got cpanel?
ie. http://www.domain.com:2082/

if so, have you got Fantastico?

siuko · 4 Dec 2008 at 12:54

I friend at work has used Streamline before for hosting.

He was able to run his website + phpbb2 (he also tried phpbb3) ok from it.

Streamline was at the time quite unreliable with speed - especially with reference to the mysql database running the forum. It often lagged the forum at certain times of the day.

But it should still be quite easy to upload your phpbb3 files via ftp to your streamline ftp space then using your streamline control panel create a mysql database and user to store the forum data.

ace2109 · 4 Dec 2008 at 16:56

im just waiting on my old domain host transferring over the domain name to streamline now then i can test it all.