fortunately for you I am a vb pro. here is a short tutorial.
if you want to put your forum in a forum directory so you can access it like
http://localhost/forum/ , make a folder called
forum in your
c:\wamp\www folder. now put all your vb files there.
if you dont want to use a directory, so you just have to type
[localhost] to access your forum, then put your vb files in your
c:\wamp\www folder.
now open up phpmyadmin and create a new database for your new forum. you can call it anything, but to make things easy just name it
forum. once you have created the database, you can close phpmyadmin because you are done using it. if you created your database and you did not call it
forum, then you need to change this in your
config.php file to what you named your database:
$config['Database']['dbname'] = 'forum';make sure this setting is set to
mysql:
$config['Database']['dbtype'] = 'mysql';put your email address here:
$config['Database']['technicalemail'] = 'dbmaster@example.com';you need to put your mysql user name and password here. if you have not edited your mysql user permissions then you are using the default mysql
root user name with no password. so, you do not need to change these two settings,.
$config['MasterServer']['username'] = 'root';
$config['MasterServer']['password'] = '';if you have changed your mysql user permissions, then put your mysql user id and password there. to learn more about securing your mysql server and adding users, check out this post here:
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If you are going to be running more than one forum for you site, then change this setting below to something unique. if you are only going to have one forum, you can leave it as it is:
$config['Misc']['cookieprefix'] = 'bb';find this setting:
$config['Misc']['forumpath'] = '';if you have put your vb install into a
forum directory, change it to:
$config['Misc']['forumpath'] = 'C:\wamp\www\forum';if you did not use a directory, change it to:
$config['Misc']['forumpath'] = 'C:\wamp\www';
make sure all the following are set to
1:
$config['SpecialUsers']['canviewadminlog'] = '1';
$config['SpecialUsers']['canpruneadminlog'] = '1';
$config['SpecialUsers']['canrunqueries'] = '1';
$config['SpecialUsers']['undeletableusers'] = '1';
$config['SpecialUsers']['superadministrators'] = '1';Post Edited (09-10-06 02:47)
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