How To Create A Phpbb Fm Create a Fully Modded forum.

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1. Well once you get the file onto your computer, your going to need an FTP client. I suggest Core FTP, just do a Google search for it, and theres a free version, which I use, and is just great.

 

2a. I'm guessing you already have an unzipping program to unzip the file you're downloading, so we'll skip that step.

 

2b. Go to http://phpbbfm.net/. On the left side, e little below the top, click on the Zip link, which will download the file. Unzip the file you just got.

 

3. Once all the files have been unzipped from the main file you just got, find the folder that you unzipped all the files to. It should be name pretty much the same thing as the big file you just got.

 

4. Rename the folder to whatever you want. The one I use is "base" because the name of my forum is "Shadow Warriors Base of Operations", for this online game I play called Darkthrone. You will probably be happy to use a folder name such as "forum" so when your users go to your site, it will be easy to remember. Also, whatever you name this folder, will be the folder name of your forum. For instance, this forum, they use "forums" I think you get the point.

 

5. Now open your FTP program, and enter the details of your login, which you should get via e-mail, these include the FTP site, which may be a series of numbers, like 111.11.111.11 or something like that. Or if you don't get any numbers, just use ftp.YourSubDomain.YourHost.com or whatever your site is, with an "ftp." before it. Now enter your username and password, which will most likely be with the e-mail that hass all the numbers and stuff.

 

6. Once connected, (I'm assuming your using Core FTP, but most FTP programs are very similar) use the left side (windows) to find the folder that you renamed from step 4. And just find it, don't open it or anything. Then on the right, there should be some folders, one of them being "public_html", open that folder. If you don't have that folder, PM me, and I'll explain more.

 

7. Now that you are in the public_html folder, go ahead and drag the folder you renamed, over to inside the public_html folder, it will start to que up files, queing takes only a minute or two, but transferring for me can take up 45 minutes to an hour. Now if you want to take a break, go for it, the FTP program should do all the work from here.

 

8. After your break, head over to the CPanel, that comnes with your account. Use the same username and password that you used to sign into FTP.

 

9. Find the link called "SQL databases" or somehting that has "SQL" in it. Probably "MySQL Databases". Click on the link. Now this is kind of confusing, but bear with me. Your going to need to add a database, call it "forum" and click "Add Database". the databse will then be called "YouUserName_forum" remember this.

 

10. Now go back to the part where you made the database. And find the two boxes together, one being username, and the other being password. This is where you are going to make a user for your database. Just enter "forum" as the username, and use whatever you want for the password, but remember the password. Click "Add User".

 

11. Now your going to assign the user you just made, to the database you made before. Find where it says "Add user to database" and there should be 2 drop down menus. One of them, being the user, and the second, the database. Don't worry about all those checkboxes, it should already be set on "All" for you. In the first drop-down, find "YouUserName_forum" and then in the second one, do the same thing. And click "Add user to database".

 

12. Now your done with CPanel. When your files have been transferred over, open a new window of whatever browser you use, or a new Tab (Ctrl + T) if you use Firefox. Go to your website. Which should be like YourWebsite.YourHost.com or whatever, but after that, add "/forum". This should take you to the installation, if not, go back to your site, and add "/forum/install/install.php"

 

13. Now you have the installation page open. For Database Name, and Database User, enter "YourUserName_forum" and the password is whatever you set it to be when you made the user. Then go down, put in your e-mail, the Username you want to be your Administrator (I just use "Admin"). And the password you want to log in. These will be your username and password for your forum. Make sure all of the fileds are entered, leave the port and all that alone.

 

Just do what it says here. Now click Next, or Install, or whatever it says. Then a new page will open, if you have errors, PM me, if not, click Finish.

 

14. Now go back to your FTP thing, and on the right, the one that is your website, open the folder "forum" or whatever you named it, and delete the folder "install". Now go to your website plus the "/forum" and log in.

 

Your all set!

 

15. Somehting you will need to do, is in the Admin CP, click on the plus next to "General" then click on "Configuration". A new thing will pop up, and click on the plus next to "Cookie Settings". Make sure the cookie

domain is ".xena-free.com" IT MUST HAVE THE "." before xena-free.com Then change the cookie name to whatever you want, no spaces. This step makes it so people don't have to log in twice to your forum every time.

 

If you have any questions, feel free to PM me, as I am on pretty much every day. Just tell me what step you are stuck on, and where in the step. I hope this helps. And By the way, a phpBB FM is a phpBB forum, but it comes pre-modified, so you don't have to mod it yourself.

 

Notice from cmatcmextra:

Nice tutorial, don't double-space line

 

breaks like this all the time because it make

 

it harder to determine when the end of one point is.

 

Double-line-breaks removed.

 

Next time you create a list please use the [-list-][*]Point1 [*]Point2[/-list-] tags. More bbcodes here

Wow! Great Tut I never knew they had phpbb with a mod but, the only thing I wihsed they had was a way to get skins for this because the only thing they have is the subsilver and I would start to get sick of this no offence..My question to you is if they have any skins you can download or do you have to pay or create your own? Thank you,

 

Iceblade

[jlhaslip 4]

Iceblade, and others, of course,,,

Templates (or skins) are available at this link and also check at this site for other (unsupported) templates. The phpbb (first) link is the official phpbb site, so, I would use it first.
They also have a good selection of graphics to use for modding your forum.

[Wargasmic 0]

well done on the ace tutorial, I am hoping to set one up when I get my PHP website.......Thanks,

[Higginz 0]

Wowww !! Thanks For That Excellent Tut. Tried For Ages To Find One Which Was Simple Enough For Me And That Just Hit The Nail On The Head ! Really Going To Help Me Now, Appreciate It Alot !Once Again Many Thanks

[iGuest 3]

'Hmmmm I am trying to install PHPbbFM forums at awardspace.Com, but I keep getting this error:An error occurred trying to update the databaseUnknown column 'article_' in 'field list'Does anyone know how to fix this? 'I get the same error for recode_cjk.Php and something about a binary error...? I think it is awardspace's limit of 500kb max per file...

[iGuest 3]

Updating Fully Modded phpbb2 and other things!!

How To Create A Phpbb Fm

 

I kinda got sucked in to being a partner on a forum. And got stuck with all the work, I have no clue as to what I'm doing. The forum is set up and working but I need it updated (I have a security warning saying so) so I downloaded the update.. How do I get it on my forum now????

 

And then another thing I have not been able to figure out is, I need to change the welcome pm. I cant find the spot to do this, I know I need to edit language/lang_english/lang_main.Php but where in the heck is that??

 

If someone could help me it would mean soo much!!

 

-question by Brandih25

[baphometslayer 0]

Thanks for this tutorial. All this time later I used it and it still worked flawlessly. Great job! Now to get to modding everything I want changed.

[Forbez 0]

Awesome, very nice. You could of layed out how you displayed the information better, but oh well. Good job, learnt abit.