Installing PhpBB On GoDaddy

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Let's get cracking installing phpBB on godaddy.com. The first entity you
need to do is download phpBB. You tin ascertain this by act a search on
google, or at going to Open Source Depot.

Once you've downloaded phpBB to your regional machine, you'll need to unzip
it. After unzipping, you'll find a folder with all the phpBB files in
it. In fact, with the version I downloaded it was several folders deep.
le the installation instructions included with most open source
software are imaginary, I all seem to find someone lacking. Of
course that lacking piece is routinely host characteristic, otherwise they would

1) Your web waiter needs to support php (for godaddy does at least
surely on their linux offerings).
2) You need access to a MySQL database.
- really, technically you need one of the supported databases, but
since I'm prose this in the context of scampering it aboard godaddy, let's
consider MySQL the de-facto criterion.
So, now I change to the forums directory and "put" all the files and
folders involved in my phpBB direcotry to the server. It's the directory
with the admin folder and all the files, basically take anything
recursively down.
have it in their documentation. With that in mind, installing phpBB
forum software on a GoDaddy hosted server is quite simple. I'll document
the installation tread by step.
I don't have chamber here to consult each nuance of how to set up a MySQL
database on godaddy, but there are other sources of information to aid
you with that, including those base at Open Source Depot. That article
contours the one truly important thing about installing these chips
of software on GoDaddy, the database IP address.
Create a folder on your server to put your phpBB install. On my server,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych],
I've decided to put phpBB in my /opensourcedepot/forums folder. the
folder /opensourcedepot already existed, so I needed to create a sub
folder shrieked forums. I did this using FileZilla (the FTP client
program that I like to use).

Most of these installs assume that "localhost" will go (as it does on
mention hostgator), but on GoDaddy,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], you're database is not necessarily on
the same machine as your web server, so you need to specify one address
like in array to find that address you need to open
your database from the hosting manager and the address will emerge in
your caption bar. Either that, or go to the MySQL databases partition and
click on the pencil. The url for your database ought seem elsewhere
on the screen.

I will only advert the items that I am changing in the install.
Everything else is left as default.
The forum software, phpBB, which stands I imagine for PHP bulletin board
is a really fine piece of free open source software. It allows you to
run a forum, also known as a bulletin board, on your web site assuming
you have the following.
ftp client (FileZilla) is uploading the files to my server. For me,
this will take a few minutes, during which time I should go over to my
godaddy server and set up a MySQL database.
I'm writing this as I'm doing a the install for the forums at Open
Source Depot (and taking screen snapshots according the direction). Right now, my
your godaddy database IP (likewise username, dbname and password). Now
you're ready to start the install. To do this, equitable go to the URL you
installed the files to. Now always we need to do is follow the
instructions.
1) Database Server HostName/DSN in this carton I ambition put in my db IP
address (of lesson bomb is I'm not
differentiating what it was, for security reasons).
2) Your Database Name (the appoint you sp
I've set up my database on GoDaddy and I understand my IP address for it (I'm
not working to give you the real address, or logon id, or passwords here,
so don't even bother seeing Smile

Your phpBB files are in your forums directory on the server and you know