Top ten web hosting - 238 CHAPTER 8 INSTALLING AND CONFIGURING PHPBB
238 CHAPTER 8 INSTALLING AND CONFIGURING PHPBB If you see the screen with the Finish Installation button, congratulations! You re just a couple tasks away from having a fully functional phpBB setup. Go ahead and skip to the section named Performing Post-Installation Chores for what to do next. Troubleshooting Installation Perhaps when you clicked the Start Install button, you saw something very different from the display in Figure 8-2, such as Critical Error with a bunch of MySQL error messages. Here, I ll take you through a few common errors that you might encounter along the way. Access denied for user@localhost (Using password: YES): MySQL ran into a problem letting you use the database with the database username and password you specified in installation. You should examine your database username and password settings to ensure that they re correct, and make sure the username and password you supply have rights to access that particular database. Not a valid MySQL-Link Resource. . .: This is an obscure message that doesn t tell you exactly what the problem is. Check to make sure you have the correct database name entered into the form. If the database name is correct, make sure that you have the right server settings. Unable to write config.php: If phpBB tells you to download config.php because it couldn t be written, go ahead and do so. This is the installer s fallback method when the config.php file is unwritable by the server. Performing Post-Installation Chores Now that you ve successfully run the install script, you need to do a little cleaning up and securing of the board before you continue with phpBB configuration. Deleting the /install and /contrib Directories If you click Finish Installation immediately after finishing with the installer, you ll see a message like the one shown in Figure 8-3. Figure 8-3. phpBB reminding you to delete the /install and /contrib directories Why won t phpBB run after this point? Leaving the /install and /contribdirectories provides a great way for a hacker to overwrite your database settings and cause havoc. At this point, anyone can rerun the installer and hijack your board. So, it s vital that you remove these directories. Simply log in with your FTP client or with your shell, navigate to where phpBB is located, and delete the /install and /contrib directories.
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