This tutorial is intended to help guide new web masters (like myself) in getting their own totally free, self-hosted phpBB3 forum up and running. I’m using Fedora 8 to accomplish this, but your distribution of Linux is probably very similar. I try to write my tutorials so that anybody with any distribution can accomplish the task. It may not be identical, but the principles are usually the same….
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Derek,
Thanks for all the instruction on setting up phpBB3 forum I am in the step #4) Install the phpBB3 forums:
I am unable to load the http://mywebsite/forums/install/index.php page to configure the forum, can you please help me what I am doing wrong.
PS: The phpBB3 DB is properly setup and running.
Appreciateour guidance.
bhaktiveda (simhan)
Try maybe using http://localhost/forums/install/index.php.
Make sure the path is correct too. Browse to the /var/www/html folder and make sure that there is a folder called “forums” or “phpbb3″ in there that has all of the files. If the folder is called “phpbb3″ then you’ll have to use http://mywebsite/phpbb3/install/index.php.
I hope this helps.
Derek,
I found that I could not login to the database with the user I created according to your instructions. In the user table, the user I created had a Host entry of ‘%’. I had to specifically assign privileges to localhost with this command in order to then login and verify things:
grant all privileges on phpbb.* to user@localhost identified by ‘password’;
flush privileges;
Then things worked fine for me. As I understand it, thats only a concern if you’re connecting to mysql via a local socket. If you want to connect via TCP, you would do “user@hostname.com”. The wildcard character “%” did not work for me, I don’t know why.
–Mish
@Mish: Thanks for commenting on that matter. It will be very helpful for anybody running into that problem.
@bhaktiveda: I received an email from you and it sounds like the problem has been solved.
Hello
Your site really helps me
Cya
thanks