Today I am going to give you a short tutorial to make a forum site using open source script phpbb. Anyone can install phpbb easily on any web server. I will give you a short tutorial describing how to do it.
To start this work you don’t need to know any programming language. You just need to had a minimum knowledge with databases.
What is phpbb?
Phpbb is a forum script. It’s completely free and you can make unlimited forums and categories. You can download it from phpbb.com. You will get everything you would expect from a open source bulletin board script. You can check complete feature list of phpbb here phpbb.com/features..
To install phpbb using ftp and a browser you need:
1 : any database from : MySQL, PostgreSQL, MS SQL or Access via ODBC
2. It can run apache server or IIS.
Its administrator panel is so much user friendly and it allow you do anything.
Lets Start installing Phpbb:
First Download the phpBB files form phpbb.com and Upload The phpBB Files through FTP
When the upload became completed, extract the zip file and change the permission of cofiq.php file to 777.
Now let’s create Database:
• Find Mysql wizard at cpanel
• Create a mysql database
• Remember the database user name and password
Installation
Now we have all the information in our hand. Now lets open our browser and go to http://www.
Now lets complete the installation step by step.
Now phpbb is installed on our server.
Administration of your forum
To administer our forum we have to go http://www.
Now go to Styles admin and set your template. To set another template go Style admin> add. Once you set the template you can cosmism the theme there
Conclusion
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