CHAPTER 8 INSTALLING (Web design portfolio) AND CONFIGURING PHPBB 233
CHAPTER 8 INSTALLING AND CONFIGURING PHPBB 233 Obtaining phpBB phpBB is primarily obtained via download from http://www.phpbb.com, but you can also acquire it through sites such as http://www.phpbbhacks.com if you so desire. phpBB is distributed in several flavors: Full package: If this is your first time downloading phpBB, you want the full package. This package contains everything you will need to install phpBB on your server. For the installation described in this chapter, you need to download this package. Changed files only: If you are upgrading your phpBB to a new version, this package helps you migrate to the new version with the minimal files necessary. You can use this package only to upgrade an older version of phpBB. It consists of compressed files that contain the changes from every old version to the latest version, which is useful if you ve missed a round or two of updates. Upgrading is covered in Chapter 10. Patch file only: If you have shell access to your server, you may elect to use this file to upgrade your version of phpBB using the UNIX patch utility, rather than uploading multiple files. The phpBB Group offers three versions of each package, compressed with a different algorithm. Feel free to pick the file of your choice. If you are on Linux, you may want the .bzip packages. Windows users will likely wish to use the .zip files. Further down the download page, you will see that many translations of phpBB are available for just about any language you may ever want. If you wish to display your board in another language, feel free to download its corresponding language pack. You can install as many language packs as you wish, and you can install language packs at any time after initial installation. After you ve downloaded phpBB and whichever language packs you want, decompress phpBB to a folder on your hard drive. If you obtained language packs, decompress those to the /languages directory where you decompressed phpBB. Now that you have phpBB, it s time to get your server ready for installation. Caution Some Linux distributions now ship with a phpBB2 package. Resist the temptation to use it! The package may not put phpBB where you want it to be installed, could complicate adding modifications to your board, and could cause your custom work on your installation to be lost automatically when upgrading the package. Preparing Your Server Now that you have the phpBB software downloaded to your hard drive, you can upload it to your server. But first, take a moment to set up your database. Setting Up a Database for phpBB Creating a database for phpBB is a fairly trivial matter. I recommend that you use a totally . The database will be accessed
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