To host a forum you'll need a web server (Apache), PHP, and MySQL.
The easiest thing to do is download a WAMP package like this and install it. After installing and configuring it (read the documentation/how-to) it's just a matter of copying the phpBB files to an accessible directory and running the installer.
i was told to use ubuntu server. I going to download it and give it a try. i did download mysql and wamp and installed them but i keep getting warning of missing dll files. So it won't run. I am running windows 2000. So i give ubuntu a try. thanks for the help.
Technically, you don't *need* MySQL to run a forum. Any DBMS supported by the forum software will work...
Yeah but it's the easiest (well, SQLite would be, but scaling to a forums is just ehhh)
this site is running on debian linux, the cherokee httpd, postgresql, php-cgi with eaccelerator. If you spend a good day actually reading on how the software operates, and reading the documentation, you can probably pull it off too. Cherokee's nice on Linux as it provides a shiny web ui :>
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The easiest thing to do is download a WAMP package like this and install it. After installing and configuring it (read the documentation/how-to) it's just a matter of copying the phpBB files to an accessible directory and running the installer.
Yeah but it's the easiest (well, SQLite would be, but scaling to a forums is just ehhh)
this site is running on debian linux, the cherokee httpd, postgresql, php-cgi with eaccelerator. If you spend a good day actually reading on how the software operates, and reading the documentation, you can probably pull it off too. Cherokee's nice on Linux as it provides a shiny web ui :>