Icy Phoenix

Hi,
in this post you will find some quick instructions on how to install phpBB XS on your server.

What you need:

• Hosting service with PHP support
  
• MySQL database
  
• FTP client or something similar
  
• Web Browser
  
• Text Editor (better if with programming tools)
  
• Local web server package to make some tests

Fist of all you should try to install a local web server package on your pc, so you can test the installation process and make some tests or customization on phpBB XS before installing it on the web.

A good server package is WM Server Tools (http://www.wmcreation.it/index.php?action=wmservertools) which I use personally, and I like partcularly because of its easy of use.

After having tested your phpBB XS locally, you may want to install it on your web server.

First of all you should take note of your accounts data, and server specs (such as PHP version, MySQL version, GD Libraries), just to check that you have everything you need before starting the install.

Then you can use a FTP client to upload all the files included in the package in your web server. A good and free FTP client is FileZilla (http://filezilla.sourceforge.net/).

From this point on, you should follow the instructions included in the docs folder of phpBB XS (file readme_english.html) especially taking care of setting the right permissions on all files and folder.

When you have your board set up, it should be a good thing going in ACP, lock the board and customize it. Keep the board locked until you have done a minimum setup (remember that when the board is locked, only admins may be able to use the site, while other users don't).

Most of the customization may be achieved in ACP... but you may want to modify a bit the board... in which case you need a text editor for editing phpBB XS files.

Enjoy your newly installed phpBB XS.

Another all in one "Webserver-PHP-Database" package ist XAMPP which can be found here:
http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp.html

I'm using wamp server for tests

http://www.wampserver.com/en/

ı want to try on my pc, and ım using easy php

but ım getting this

Internal Server Error
The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.

Please contact the server administrator, admin@localhost and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.

More information about this error may be available in the server error log.

fatihalp wrote: [View Post]

ı want to try on my pc, and ım using easy php

but ım getting this

Internal Server Error
The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.

Please contact the server administrator, admin@localhost and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.

More information about this error may be available in the server error log.

Is there any .htaccess file? You can try to rename/delete it.

as fixed the permissions to those folders, some guide ?

# files/album
files/album/cache
files/album/med_cache
files/album/wm_cache
cache
ctracker/logfiles/logfile_attempt_counter.txt
ctracker/logfiles/logfile_blocklist.txt
ctracker/logfiles/logfile_debug_mode.txt
ctracker/logfiles/logfile_malformed_logins.txt
ctracker/logfiles/logfile_spammer.txt
ctracker/logfiles/logfile_worms.txt
files
files/thumbs
images/avatars
pafiledb/uploads
pafiledb/cache
pafiledb/cache/templates
pafiledb/cache/templates/ca_aphrodite

# Set the permission to CHMOD 666 to the following files:
includes/def_themes.php
includes/def_tree.php
includes/def_words.php

Help me, plz

master2611 wrote: [View Post]

as fixed the permissions to those folders, some guide ?

If you are using phpBBXS on local environment you can do that simply via file manager (on Windows you can override this), but if you are using it on a live environment you can use your ftp client, note that it can depend by your hosting also.

Ciao,

I am proving it in localhost, in platform Windows

master2611 wrote: [View Post]

I am proving it in localhost, in platform Windows

I think you don't need to change nothing in this case.