Need help with PPH for BBS

[tsafa1]

I want to set up a PHP forum inside the ants web tunnel and also directly on the internet. Can anyone help me with this. I have found a lot of info on google but a lot of it is not clear.

Thanks

[cpugeniusmv]

I'm not familiar with ants, but I presume you'd have to setup a web server (preferably Apache), and configure it to use PHP?

Windows, I presume?

Yep, lots of good tutorials out there.

[tsafa1]

yes, tha apache part is ok, that I have set up already from my http webpage inside ants. Now I wantto go to the next level. Install a program like easy php and then what?

[cpugeniusmv]

yes, tha apache part is ok, that I have set up already from my http webpage inside ants. Now I wantto go to the next level. Install a program like easy php and then what?

Which forum software are you planning to use? phpbb?

Most (all?) popular php forum packages require PHP and MySQL.

On Linux, this bundle of services is often referred to as LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP)...and I've seen the Windows side of things referred to as WAMP.

Check this out:

http://www.google.com/search?q=windo...ie=UTF-8&hl=en

[tsafa1]

ok, i am at the point whare i am tryin to set up data tables. not sure what I am supose to do.

[cpugeniusmv]

I've never messed with MySQL before, but from what I've heard it's really convenient to use a tool called phpMyAdmin.

[hawkburn]

I personally could never get Apache, MySQL/phpMyAdmid/PHP to work together, so I ended up using a webserver called Abyss Web Server, located @ http://www.aprelium.com/abyssws/
Then it shows you pretty roughly how to setup for PHP:
http://www.aprelium.com/abyssws/php.html#windows

Then what I did for my personal webserver was setup phpMyAdmin with the default setup on all of it.. and after some screwin around with it I got it to work...

Good luck.

[tsafa1]

here are some screen shots of what I am looking at now. I do not know what to t do next. I do not recognise any of that stuff in the screenshot. How do I go from there to a bbs.

It seems to be asking to set up tables. What kind of tablesarethese and what do they have to do with bbs?

thanks much

[cpugeniusmv]

Looking into it more, does the phpbb setup not create the database for you?

http://www.webdevtips.com/webdevtips...bb/index.shtml

It seems to be asking to set up tables. What kind of tablesarethese and what do they have to do with bbs?

They're tables in a database...they hold all the data from the forum--posts, settings, etc.

[tsafa1]

I am notsure. Maybe I have correcly set up the tables. I am not sure what is the next step after that.

hawkburn, I like your signiture line.

[tsafa1]

I finaly got this the forum to work in the ants http tunnel thanks to Smallfish. Now I want to get forum to work in my Verizon webspace. Does anyone know what php stuff I am supose to upload to the server and how I am supose to structure it?
thanks

[cpugeniusmv]

I finaly got this the forum to work in the ants http tunnel thanks to Smallfish. Now I want to get forum to work in my Verizon webspace. Does anyone know what php stuff I am supose to upload to the server and how I am supose to structure it?
thanks

Verizon's web hosting that comes with your internet access account likely does not support PHP.

[tsafa1]

Verizon's web hosting that comes with your internet access account likely does not support PHP.

thats too bad. any way to get around that? how would I makeit work if it did?

I gues I coould host form my computer directly using apache. With a link from my website, but I would beed to resolve my dynamic IP address. any ideas?

[cpugeniusmv]

thats too bad. any way to get around that? how would I makeit work if it did?

No.

I gues I coould host form my computer directly using apache. With a link from my website, but I would beed to resolve my dynamic IP address. any ideas?

http://www.dyndns.org

[crackerjacker]

No.


http://www.dyndns.org

how about using bad blue?
i have use it and verizon supports that
on top of hosting files but u wanna use ants to.

bad blue might be what you need.
cheers
i ran it behind a router too