Topic: I want to build a simple forum website for my club

[wbtedrick]

How does one start the process of building a forum website like this one, but not near as fancy?  I have several web servers (SME linux- apache) and would like to add a simple forum to one or more of these sites.  Any advice would be helpful
Thanks,
Ben Tedrick

[Gizzmo]

I would think somethink like postnuke or phpnuke would be what youre looking for, i dont know for sure what engine this site runs off of......but i have postnuke running on my sme server and i works great!

[MSmith]

Will run from an ibay.

http://www.phpbb.com

[wbtedrick]

MSmith,
I took your recommendation and installed phpBB2, It looks good and I have started the install,  This is on a SME 6.0 and during the install it is asking for the database name and user name. How do I create the database name and user?

[mrjhb3]

Do this from the console:

mysqladmin create phpbb  - creates the db.

Then type mysql

grant all privileges on phpbb.* to youruser@localhost identified by 'yourpassword';

flush privileges;

quit

Then in the phpbb setup you will use the same user and pass to access the db. After that, you should be able to start setting it up.

GL,

JB

[wbtedrick]

With the help of this forum and the Internet I got it working just fime last night..  Thanks