home dsl webserver + phpbb ?

cerebis

anyone have notes on how to set up phpbb on their own home webserver ?
have the web server bit working...

I'm using iis5....phpbb2 ... and php4.? anyone done this already ? cheers!

tom_ass19

google is always your friend.....

Redshift

Have you installed Mysql server?
More info on your setup required What problems are you having?

Moriarty

Thread moved from broadband.

Random

You say the webservers working already ... so you can load http://localhost in your browser?

Do PHP pages work?

Have you setup a mysql server yet? You'll need a new database on that and a username/password with full access.

cerebis

yeah have got php working...prob that I'm tired, I'm gonna devote a couple of hours to it 2m...cheers for the suggestions

Random

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/4.1/en/windows-installation.html might be useful for you with mysql install.

Rollo Tamasi

hi cerebis, this isn't too hard to do. You'll need to provide us with some more technical info thou.
1) What router are you using
2) Who is your ISP
3) Do you have a static IP address?
4) What version of Windows are you running

This is how i setup my server at home:
1) Download IBserver from here
It installs PHP5 MYSQL PHPMYADMIN and Apache on your local machine
When its finished installing if you type localhost into your broswer you will get the configuration screen up. You may need to startup IBserver and start the server services after you install it. There will be an icon on your desktop, just load it up from there.

Go to C:/Ibserver/www/ and create a folder in there called phpbb or whatever. Drop all your files in there. Then go to localhost/phpmyadmin in your browser. Create a new database. Once you have that done, go to localhost/phpbb/ in your browser and follow the instructions. That should install (you may have trouble with SMTP settings, as you don't have a mail server, not sure if that will prevent you from completing the installation)

2) Assign yourself a static local IP address. Go to Network Connections, Local Area Connection, right click, properties, highlight TCP/IP and go to properties. Take a look at this screenshot, its from my LAC setup.

i have a static IP of 192.168.1.2 , this is because my default gateway device is 192.168.1.254 (Netopia Router on Eircom). Your local IP will depend on what your Routers IP address is, a lot of the time it is 192.168.0.1 so you could pick a local static IP of 192.168.0.2 for example.Your DNS address are assinged by your ISP. When you login to your routers configuration screen you should see your DNS settings there.

3) Port Forward within your Router
All routers are different. You may have a firewall or port forward screen within there..or similar. What you want to do is to forward port 80 to your local address. You will need to figure that one out for yourself a bit but it's not hard to do. 5 clicks of the mouse and you should have it done. If you have a static IP then you would be able to type in 87.56.147.147/phpbb or whatever into your browser and you would see the contents of your phpbb folder. If you have a dynamic IP address you will need to use dyndns or something, i forget the name of the site. Basically it allows you to setup a server using dynamic IP addresses.

That's it, hope this helps.
Cormac

Rollo Tamasi

ciaranfo wrote:

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/4.1/en/windows-installation.html might be useful for you with mysql install.

i wouldn't bother with compliling each element of the server. Go for a pre-complied package such as the one i posted above or any of the other 100 that are out there....

Random

Rollo Tamasi wrote:

i wouldn't bother with compliling each element of the server. Go for a pre-complied package such as the one i posted above or any of the other 100 that are out there....

Fair point.

Sparky

Lads, the best ive ever used for windows is appserv.

http://www.appservnetwork.com/

Its as simple as making babies to install

It just creates a folder on C:/ called www, but you can edit this in the httpd.conf file.