Saturday, September 25, 2010

Making a forum using phpbb

Hello in this post i will explain how to make a forum using phpbb format.

1st you would need to go to phpbb.com to download the phpbb files that you would like to used current i am using phpbb2 once you have download the phpbb version you like to used.
After that the next step is to get a web hosting service. make sure the host you used support mysql adminmysql and ftp uploading once you set up your account with the webhost open your ftp and log in to it once you have log in to it you can begining uploading the phpbb files you download you would have to upload the file in the public_html folder after you finished uploading it go to your domain and type this www.yoursite.com/install.php
that will start the installing for your forum once the installing is complete it will ask you to make a log in name and a password for your forum once you log it it will tell u to go to your ftp and delete install folder from the server you uploaded to but only delete the install folder only once you delete it you can log in and go to admin panel and change the out look of your forum if you want a diffent theams you can download them by google phpbb theams you can install them by just uploading them to your host server using ftp after it uploaded go to your forum control panel and look for theam upload or install theams once you found that lick on install and poof there you go now you just change the theam of your forum after that your all done now to add topic and a few post to get started once it all set up it is easy to mange your forum site hope this help and enjoy ty for reading the how to make a forum if you can you can go to zomex it free to make an account there just click on zomex to be sent to there site to make any web hosting account

1 comment:

  1. forums using php is alot better then using wordpress

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