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To: bob self <bobself@charter.net>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2005 12:34:30 -0700

On Wednesday 07 September 2005 11:22, the author bob self contributed to the
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 Re: phpbb installation:

>Vizion wrote:
>
>...
>
>Here are some recent notes that I made about installing phpBB2 on 5.4:
>
>Here's the procedure for creating multiple forums.
>
>1. get a copy of phpBB-2.0.17.zip (or whatever the current version is).
>Unzip it into a directory. This will be the template
> for each new forum that you want to create.
>
>2. pick a name for the forum, eg 'forum1'. Create a directory called
>forum1 under your root page, eg /usr/local/www/username/forum1.
> You should also have /usr/local/www/username/phpBB2 here with all of
>the original phpBB files.
>
>3. cd to forum1 and <b>cp -rp ../phpBB2 .</b>
>
>4. Next you need to give your mysql user privileges to create this
>database and then create an empty database called 'forum1'.
> I run this php script to set up mysql before installing phpBB for
>this forum:
>
><b>
> \$link = mysql_connect(\"localhost\", \"root\", \"**********\") or
>die(\"Could not connect: \" . mysql_error() . \"\\n\");
>
> \$cmd = \"GRANT ALL ON forum1.*
> TO user@localhost
> IDENTIFIED BY '**********'
> WITH GRANT OPTION\";
> mysql_query(\$cmd) or die(\"grant error \" . mysql_error() . \"\\n\");
>
> \$cmd = \"flush privileges\";
> mysql_query(\$cmd) or die(\"flush privileges error \" . mysql_error()
>. \"\\n\");
>
> mysql_close(\$link);
>
> // now have 'user' create the database:
>
> \$link = mysql_connect(\"localhost\", \"user\", \"**********\") or
>die(\"Could not connect: \" . mysql_error() . \"\\n\");
> \$cmd = \"create database forum1;\";
> mysql_query(\$cmd) or die(\"grant error \" . mysql_error() . \"\\n\");
> mysql_close(\$link);
></b>
>
>5. cd to .../forum1 and <b>chmod 666 config.php</b>
>
>6. Now point your browser to .../forum1/install/install.php
>
> Basic Configuration
>
> Default board language: English
> Database Type: mysql 4.x
> Choose your installation method: install
>
> Database Configuration
>
> Database Server Hostname / DSN: localhost
> Your Database Name: forum1
> Database Username: user
> Database Password: ********
> Prefix for tables in database: forum1_
>
> Admin Configuration
>
> Admin Email Address: user@x.org
> Domain Name: www.user.lan
> Server Port: 80
> Script path: /forum1/
> Administrator Username: user
> Administrator Password: ******
> Administrator Password [ Confirm ]: ******
>
>
>7. cd to .../forum1 and <b>chmod 644 config.php</b>
>
>8. remove the .../forum1/install and .../forum1/contrib directories.
Hey

Thank you very much - I will use that I soon as I get over the problem with
install.php which produces a blank screen (I have reported the issue to the
phpbb forum and cc'd to freebsd-questions.

Thanks again for your help

david

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