Vbulletin Installation
Anyone know where i can find a readme for installation? it didn't come with one... and second i downloaded phpdev [ http://sourceforge.net/projects/phpdev5 ] and i was wondering what directory i would extract vubulliten to....... and third, from installing other bulliten boards i know i need: servername, username, password, and databasename usually... so how could i figure out what these are because i am just hosting the board on my own computer for the moment until i get it all working and everything at which time i will upload it to a real server.
thanks for your help
TheSource
thanks for your help
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John Danielson.
I recommend Apache as your webserver.
You'll also need PHP
And you'll need some form of SQL database. I recommend MySQL
The server name (of Apache) is configured during setup. I'm pretty sure you can also look in httpd.conf and change it if necessary.
Your MySQL setup should allow you to specify a name for the MySQL server and you give that name to the vBulletin software after you unzip it and find a directory for it. vBulletin will automatically create a database in MySQL, so you don't need to worry about that. My setup took some tinkering and restarting to get vBulletin to find the server, but after a while, it went like a charm.
It its Linux then dont forget the --with-apxs(2)=<apache directory> --with-mysql
when installing PHP, it helps it, er.... work basically.
Setup is easy on Windows, though you need to move a few files around .
But as you already have that all.....
Just put VBullitin in a folder under your HTDOCS named forum or something, or even better, make a sub domain on apache allowing you to keep it seperate and not have to cross any files.
NS
Check PM's Source.