1. Well once you get the file onto your computer, your going to need an FTP client. I suggest Core FTP, just do a Google search for it, and theres a free version, which I use, and is just great.
2a. I'm guessing you already have an unzipping program to unzip the file you're downloading, so we'll skip that step.
2b. Go to http://phpbbfm.net. On the left side, e little below the top, click on the Zip link, which will download the file. Unzip the file you just got.
3. Once all the files have been unzipped from the main file you just got, find the folder that you unzipped all the files to. It should be name pretty much the same thing as the big file you just got.
4. Rename the folder to whatever you want. The one I use is "base" because the name of my forum is "Shadow Warriors Base of Operations", for this online game I play called Darkthrone. You will probably be happy to use a folder name such as "forum" so when your users go to your site, it will be easy to remember. Also, whatever you name this folder, will be the folder name of your forum. For instance, this forum, they use "forums" I think you get the point.
5. Now open your FTP program, and enter the details of your login, which you should get via e-mail, these include the FTP site, which may be a series of numbers, like 111.11.111.11 or something like that. Or if you don't get any numbers, just use ftp.YourSubDomain.YourHost.com or whatever your site is, with an "ftp." before it. Now enter your username and password, which will most likely be with the e-mail that hass all the numbers and stuff.
6. Once connected, (I'm assuming your using Core FTP, but most FTP programs are very similar) use the left side (windows) to find the folder that you renamed from step 4. And just find it, don't open it or anything. Then on the right, there should be some folders, one of them being "public_html", open that folder. If you don't have that folder, PM me, and I'll explain more.
7. Now that you are in the public_html folder, go ahead and drag the folder you renamed, over to inside the public_html folder, it will start to que up files, queing takes only a minute or two, but transferring for me can take up 45 minutes to an hour. Now if you want to take a break, go for it, the FTP program should do all the work from here.
8. After your break, head over to the CPanel, that comnes with your account. Use the same username and password that you used to sign into FTP.
9. Find the link called "SQL databases" or somehting that has "SQL" in it. Probably "MySQL Databases". Click on the link. Now this is kind of confusing, but bear with me. Your going to need to add a database, call it "forum" and click "Add Database". the databse will then be called "YouUserName_forum" remember this.
10. Now go back to the part where you made the database. And find the two boxes together, one being username, and the other being password. This is where you are going to make a user for your database. Just enter "forum" as the username, and use whatever you want for the password, but remember the password. Click "Add User".
11. Now your going to assign the user you just made, to the database you made before. Find where it says "Add user to database" and there should be 2 drop down menus. One of them, being the user, and the second, the database. Don't worry about all those checkboxes, it should already be set on "All" for you. In the first drop-down, find "YouUserName_forum" and then in the second one, do the same thing. And click "Add user to database".
12. Now your done with CPanel. When your files have been transferred over, open a new window of whatever browser you use, or a new Tab (Ctrl + T) if you use Firefox. Go to your website. Which should be like YourWebsite.YourHost.com or whatever, but after that, add "/forum". This should take you to the installation, if not, go back to your site, and add "/forum/install/install.php"
13. Now you have the installation page open. For Database Name, and Database User, enter "YourUserName_forum" and the password is whatever you set it to be when you made the user. Then go down, put in your e-mail, the Username you want to be your Administrator (I just use "Admin"). And the password you want to log in. These will be your username and password for your forum. Make sure all of the fileds are entered, leave the port and all that alone.
Just do what it says here. Now click Next, or Install, or whatever it says. Then a new page will open, if you have errors, PM me, if not, click Finish.
14. Now go back to your FTP thing, and on the right, the one that is your website, open the folder "forum" or whatever you named it, and delete the folder "install". Now go to your website plus the "/forum" and log in.
Your all set!
15. Somehting you will need to do, is in the Admin CP, click on the plus next to "General" then click on "Configuration". A new thing will pop up, and click on the plus next to "Cookie Settings". Make sure the cookie domain is ".xena-free.com" IT MUST HAVE THE "." before xena-free.com Then change the cookie name to whatever you want, no spaces. This step makes it so people don't have to log in twice to your forum every time.
If you have any questions, feel free to PM me, as I am on pretty much every day. Just tell me what step you are stuck on, and where in the step. I hope this helps. And By the way, a phpBB FM is a phpBB forum, but it comes pre-modified, so you don't have to mod it yourself.
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it harder to determine when the end of one point is.
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CopperZepher, this is absolutely a wonderful Tutorial. I finally made my Forum with no problem! Took only 3 minutes to Install it.. THnX for your Tutorial once again. The Problem i had mainly was i didn't know where to put my phpBB2 Files.. And the other problem was the SQL Database.. Now I am OK with everything! ThnX to you!
HI , Im new to trap17 . But i have seen the config this hosting offers . I really wonder Y would some1 try THIS hard to INSTALL PHPBB ?? wierd
You have something called FANTASTICO ( in cpanel = which i wonder if ppl even peep into )
just go there , That is one soft that i really lookout for , in almost all hosts . This thing , lets u AUTOMATICALLY install all OPENSOURCE ( free ones ) softwares .
Then if i want to put google adsense in to every page of my phpbb forums, what is the script needed to do it.
You may want to go over to the phpbb.com community forums and see if they have a mod for the google adsense inclusion into your forum. Or try phpbbhacks.com. Both of those sites have good stuff. Then come back and post the answer here so all of our members have the answer. That might be helpful to the other members here at the trap17.
You may want to go over to the phpbb.com community forums and see if they have a mod for the google adsense inclusion into your forum. Or try phpbbhacks.com. Both of those sites have good stuff. Then come back and post the answer here so all of our members have the answer. That might be helpful to the other members here at the trap17.
Yes i will surely post the script if i get to know how to post adsense in the forums.
This is a very well-written tutorial...now all we need is a good tutorial on how to install Ikonboard...now that's a mental workout with the instructions the creaters give you.
HI , Im new to trap17 . But i have seen the config this hosting offers . I really wonder Y would some1 try THIS hard to INSTALL PHPBB ?? wierd
You have something called FANTASTICO ( in cpanel = which i wonder if ppl even peep into )
just go there , That is one soft that i really lookout for , in almost all hosts . This thing , lets u AUTOMATICALLY install all OPENSOURCE ( free ones ) softwares .
using that , you can create a phpbb in SECONDS
This isn't just a regular phpbb though, it's fully modded. Which I think is a great idea, since everytime I try to start up a phpbb I end up screwing the whole thing up because I try to add to many mods on my own.
a FULLY MODDED version has PRE-INSTALLED HACKS and MODS ... the version that comes with fantastico .. doesnt have any MODS installed ... so ul have to install manually
and .. sum1 askd how to PUT ADDS in all pages .. easy Go to forum/templates/skin_name/header_global.tpl ( or sumthin like that ) ... open that with DREAMWEAVER .. its just a plain HTML page .. u can edit al the stuff there .. player ur adds there .. else also .. u can edit other pages like showtopic.tpl or index.tpl ( or sumthin like that . .. dont remembe the names though .. all TPLs )
Updating Fully Modded phpbb2 and other things!!
How To Create A Phpbb Fm
I kinda got sucked in to being a partner on a forum. And got stuck with all the work, I have no clue as to what I'm doing. The forum is set up and working but I need it updated (I have a security warning saying so) so I downloaded the update.. How do I get it on my forum now????
And then another thing I have not been able to figure out is, I need to change the welcome pm. I cant find the spot to do this, I know I need to edit language/lang_english/lang_main.Php but where in the heck is that??
'Hmmmm I am trying to install PHPbbFM forums at awardspace.Com, but I keep getting this error:
An error occurred trying to update the database Unknown column 'article_' in 'field list'
Does anyone know how to fix this? ' I get the same error for recode_cjk.Php and something about a binary error...? I think it is awardspace's limit of 500kb max per file...
Wowww !! Thanks For That Excellent Tut. Tried For Ages To Find One Which Was Simple Enough For Me And That Just Hit The Nail On The Head ! Really Going To Help Me Now, Appreciate It Alot !
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Example this is flashing: Inbox (2) In version 2 (the second code) the word inbox changes to
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squarish one. Well I helped with this skin, and I'm going to give an explanation for starting
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to guarantee no ads is to host it yourself. There’s loads of free web hosts out there- there’s loads
of free forum software, too. So, come on! It doesn’t take much energy to find a good host and
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Database User 4. - a password for the Database User 5. - Privileges allowed for the Database User
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I'm sure many of you out there have used phpBB at some point. To those who enjoy running forums
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hacks installed. Some of you may find this information useful. Here is the scenario: Let's say
you have forums running phpBB version 2.0.17 (currently the latest one). You have decided that you
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found on the sNews site. (refer to link list below) There are several flavours of sNews. This method
has only been tested on the sNews 1.6, but should work on other versions as well. 2. Created a
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forum while you are creating it, until you're ready for guests to see it. This method is
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This tutorial can be used to show someone how to upload images to a PHPBB Gallerie addon. This
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that you want to upload the images to. 3) Look for a button that says Upload and click on it. 4)
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QUOTE Here are the steps: Download the latest version of phpBB2. Currently it can be
found at http://www.phpbb.com/downloads.php . I prefer the .tar.gz files, and winzip has no
problems dealing with them. Decompress the files to a directory on your local system, making sure
that you maintain the relationship between directories. I'll suggest that you decompress them to
c:\webupload Now, within C:\webupload, you should have a phpBB2 directory, full of
goodies. Open up your FTP client, and connect to where your web host tells you to go for up...
Wanna make your own pixel smilies! For cutenews, your forums, websites, etc.. What you need: A
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best...) OPTIONAL... a program that has a grid when you zoom in (most graphics programs have them)
I'll use a program called paint.NET START 1. Copy this image and paste into a graphics
program 2. Then ZOOM so you can see the image close up. For easy use make sure it is in some sort
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If you want to have your own Simple Machines running up without any ADs of any kind , sign up at
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approved. After that , do like this and you will have your own forum setting up : 1.Download
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menu/configuration, find 'Allowed HTML tags' & make sure it shows the following:
b,i,u,pre,embed,object,param name,value, An excellent source of practically unlimited free
material can be found at youtube.com & they are even kind enough to give you the code to embed the
videos....
Adding custom BBCodes to your Simple Machines Forum is really very... simple. First, you will need
to download three mods from the package manager. Faster Parsecode, ModSettings Textarea, and of
course Custom BB Code. Once you have those mods set up you will need to go into your admin section
and click on your "Edit Features and Options" link. In the Basic Forum Features section you will now
find a "Custom BB Code tags" box. This box is where you will put your custom codes. You can add as
many as you like, one per line. Let's break down the bits of a simple tag tha...
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local computer set up as a Server. This tutorial references to snlildude87's tutorial at
http://www.trap17.com/forums/-t20432.html . You have to set up a MYSQL DATABASE and a Apache server
sucessfully in order for this to work. Do that first then come here and we can start. Ok, Now that
you got your Apache server set up and your MYSQL Database setup according to the Tutorial from
snllildude87, lets BEGIN! Step 1: First off you got to have a working HTML page wit...
I tried installing a new phpbb2 forum skin on my website for weeks and didnt get it to work, but
it's very easy... 1. Upload the skin / template to the templates folder of your phpbb2
directory (eg. public_html/forums/templates), make sure you don't upload the zip archieve or a
directory containing the directory where the template is in, the folder you need to upload usually
contains a lot of .tpl files an images directory a .css file (or multiple) and if your template
contains an admin re-skin an "admin" folder. NOTE: If you use PHP-Nuke the directory where...
I thought this was neccasary because we have had multiple times of this occuring. Or else, we will
have repeating tutorials and it will be completely pointless, not only that, you will also lose
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Hi. This is a tutorial of how to install a new theme into your phpBB forum
Step 1
Download
the theme you want to install to any location in your computer
Step 2a
Open your FTP
program. If you don't have one then proceed to step 2b.
Login to your FTP and go to your forums
root folder.
Open the map templates and upload the whole map of the new theme into the map
/templates with all contents.
The result will be this: /templates/new_theme/
Step 2b
Login
to cPanel en go to the file manager
Click on the directory icon next to the directories "publ...
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