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[I] Anthony's vB Installation Guide
06.17.02, 09:10:25
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ANTHONY'S vB INSTALLATION GUIDE
I'll Help You Install. Trust Me.
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THIS IS FOR USE ON ONLY LEGAL VBULLETIN BOARD PROGRAMS
This tutorial is for use on all vBulletin v2.x (x - Any Version). If you have any further questions contact me by pm or email. Thanks.
Step One -
First off, download your vBulletin Board Program from the vBulletin.com Member's Area. Once you get the .zip or .tar file from the site unzip it into preferably an empty folder. Here's where it gets tricky for the n00bs.
Step Two -
Inside a folder titled "upload" there should be multiple .php files, ignore them for the moment and lead yourself into a file titled "admin". These mulitple .php files will run the administrator side of the board. If you don't already have one get a .php editor. Preferably you get a program called PHPEd from this site. Since your already downloading you might aswell get a good FTP Program preferably SmartFTP. You can get that from this site aswell.
Step Three -
Now we should have all our needed programs to get your board going. You should still be in the folder titled "admin". Use the rename option to rename config.php.new to just plain config.php. After doing that lets put PHPEd to the test. Open up the PHPEd program and open the renamed config.php. You have change a couple of things in the code to get your board working. We are going to need six peices of information about your host. Here they are in listed order:- Database Type
- Host Name Or IP
- Database Username
- Database Password
- Database Name
- Technical Email Address
Step Three -
The difficult step. Fill in each bit of information in the proper place as labled below:
PHP Code:
// type of database running
// (only mysql is supported at the moment)
$dbservertype="Database Type";
// hostname or ip of server
$servername="Host Name Or IP";
// username and password to log onto db server
$dbusername="Database Username";
$dbpassword="Database Password";
// name of database
$dbname="Database Name";
// technical email address - any error messages will be emailed here
$technicalemail = "Technical Email Address";
After doing so, save and exit the program.
Step Four -
Uploading time. Open that new and beautiful SmartFTP program. You'll now need the following in no order:- Forums FTP Address
- FTP Login Name
- FTP Login Password
Fill them in and log on. Ok, now the really fun part. Drag and drop everything from the upload folder to the choosen place in your "root". After doing so continue to the next step.
Step Five -
Installation time! Yay! In your browsers address bar go to your forums install.php located in the admin folder of the forums. This would be:- http://www.yoursite.com/forums/admin/install.php
OR
- http://forums.yoursite.com/admin/install.php
Once there you'll see long readme and then you continue throughout all steps using your already known host information. After the installer is complete use the SmartFTP to delete the install.php out of the "admin" folder. Since your in the FTP you should also head to the "root", or the forums main area and CHMOD the images to '777'. This will allow you to upload images without an FTP through the administrator's control panal.
Step Six -
Your forums should now be installed and ready for a new look so play with the "templates" option in the "administrators" area and/or head over to vBulletin.org to get some nifty hacks and other add-ons. Well, thanks for following Anthony's vB Installation Guide. Happy programming.
THIS IS A NONPROFIT TUTORIAL BROUGHT TO YOU BY FFREPUBLIC.COM. |
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Last edited by shovel : 06.17.02 at 13:49:57.
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| I'm sure this will help out loads of people Anthony, vBulletin is a ***** to setup. I know i had a few problems with it in the past, i had to read through the manual a couple of times and it just makes you feel like giving up. I would donate my RP but you don't need it and besides you already gained my trust and friendship. Good work. |
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| Thanks. Many people were having trouble in the past so I wrote this up this morning. I'm glad you like it. |
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First of all, good job on the tutorial Anthony.
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Originally posted by Soulstone
I'm sure this will help out loads of people Anthony, vBulletin is a ***** to setup. I know i had a few problems with it in the past, i had to read through the manual a couple of times and it just makes you feel like giving up. I would donate my RP but you don't need it and besides you already gained my trust and friendship. Good work.
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VB is super-easy to install. It can't get any easier than that. It's just editing config.php and then clicking the "next" button a couple of times, and voila. |
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| Yeah. But for those n00bs Alex. Lol. Whoosh, right over there heads. Notice how I have about seven peoples FTP specs in a pm folder in my account. Lol. |
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Vb is very easy to install. I've done it several times.
I was planning to install is when I launched my site, but I decided not too since I don't have a "legal" version...oh well, I guess it's ikonboard for me. |
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wongbong.
Falen/klasko/tab is back. Pamper me.
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| Yeah. Just save $80 and buy a copy. Gives you a one year membership to vb.org and much more. Atleast, that's what Chen said to get me to buy vBulletin. Lol. |
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I'm tempted too. I really like vbulletin and I wan't a clean forum (as in legal)
For now, I think i'll put up an ikonboard.
I have vb...just not a license, do you think that I would get into trouble if I used it? |
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