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Christo

Christo

Christo

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I have yabb forums installed on my site (http://thetubist.com/forum) however they just look so messy. Does anyone know of a very simple, clean forums? Just to make posts in a thread, and maybe users but not 100% necessary.

Thanks v much:)
 
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That forum needs all users to register, such a pity as I loved the simplicity of it. Anyone know of any others?
 
ok, newb to installing forums, installing vanilla.

ive got this:

Vanilla Installation Wizard (Step 1 of 3)

We came across some problems while checking your permissions... Vanilla needs to have read permission enabled on the extensions folder.
Vanilla needs to have read permission enabled on the languages folder.

Navigate the filesystem of your server to the Vanilla folder. Vanilla will need read AND write access to the conf folder.

There are many ways to set these permissions. One way is to execute the following from the root Vanilla folder:

chmod 777 ./conf
You will also need to grant read access to the extensions, languages, setup, and themes folders. Typically these permissions are granted by default, but if not you can achieve them with the following commands:

chmod --recursive 755 ./extensions
chmod --recursive 755 ./languages
chmod --recursive 755 ./setup
chmod --recursive 755 ./themes

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how and where do i do that?
ive uploaded vanilla by ftp, do i use my ftp client to do it, of so how?

:/
 
ok

found it :]

but get this error :/

chmod 777 ./conf
550 Could not change perms on ./conf: No such file or directory

there is a conf folder tho :/
 
I generally use the ie ftp, that way its easy - just right click on the folder and change the permissions that way.:)
 
weird, i try to set permissions on folder 'conf' through IE and it tells me no folder exists :/

it does this on any folder i try to set perms on! even a new folder :/

sorry for hijack btw :p
 
Hmmm sorry cant help there! (no probs on the 'hijack':))

I found minibb and it seems quite a nice forum - no registration required:)
Still if anyone knows any better forums, let me know.
 
blade007 said:
use flasfxp to chmod and set it to recurse folders and files
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im using flashfxp already, its telling me that there is no file / directory of that name :/
 
seek said:
i always liked xmb.

http://forums.xmbforum.com/


edit: in fact i've just tried all the forums listed here, and xmb is by far the best imo! ;)
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Im trying to get xmb to work, but its just being a PITA. Im not usually too bad at following instructions, but upon having it all configured etc when i go to install it wont connect to my database saying my user is denied access.. grr.. and trying the bit in their tutorial earlier to give access returns me SQL syntax errors.. i think i just need to set permissions for my user, but im using phpmyadmin and the SQL queries bit in that.
 
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