Welcome to RCF - WHF

Karen · Jan 06, 2006

I'm starting again with a clean install and will eventually have this new board as my live board.
I'm at the installation stage but where do I put my new board files? Do I have it as a subdomain off my main board? I put it in my root folder but then what do I type to run the install?

sunny

FTM · Nov 01, 2006

What are you using to install? By hand or with fantastico?

Karen · Jan 06, 2006

By hand, I've never heard of Fantastico sunny

FTM · Nov 01, 2006

Do you have a big yellow smiley face icon in your cpanel down at the bottom? If so you can click on that and install many different programs very easily, phpbb being one of them. You would just have to pick the directory to put it in (forum, phpBB2, community, ect) and it installs it and creates the database for you as well.

If your doing it by hand, you can drag the phpBB2 folder to your public_html folder. Then find the install file from there.

Karen · Jan 06, 2006

Nope no smiley face Sad

I'm putting it in my babydreamz.net folder so it'll be babydreamz.net/phpbb2 - that would be ok?

Karen · Jan 06, 2006

Argh nothing is going right Sad

I can't get the new forum to install because it won't connect to the database, I'm guessing I need to sort out the main live board first and why www.babydreamz.net doesn't go anywhere? crybaby

FTM · Nov 01, 2006

Did you create yourself a new database for the new install? Maybe the settings for the database are wrong when you are trying the install.

Is your babydreamz address not going anywhere because you don't have an index.html, or an index.php file in your public_html folder?

FTM · Nov 01, 2006

You can try to create an index.html file to see if that helps the home page problem.

In your notepad editor, open a new file and paste the following code into it. Then save as index.html and upload to your public_html folder.

Nightrider · Sep 25, 2004

I don't know if this is what you wanted to do, but this is what I did to help you. I cloned the Live board database and connected the phpBB2 forum to it. Since the database is already created and populated there was no need to run the install, so I deleted the install and contrib folders. Then I corrected the settings in the phpbb_config table to point to the phpBB2 folder rather than the forums folder. So the new forum is up and running and ready for modification...

Since the Diddle template doesn't exist, I overwrote the user style settings in General Admin Configuration and set the default template to subSilver...

headbang

Karen · Jan 06, 2006

Wow yes it was thanks Nightrider!
I'll have a look at what you did so I can hopefully get it clear in my head what you did Applause

Just off to do the school run so will look in a while Smile