bbPress

By Joe Gardiner Wednesday, 28th April 2010

What you will need:

All the information from you vCluster Details page and Database Settings page. This includes: access server, public IP, database server, username, database name (the same as your username), and your database password. For quick reference during the bbPress install, you may find it useful to copy these details into a text file.

The newest version of bbPress, available to download from http://bbpress.org/download/

A file extractor that is compatible with the .zip format. OSX and Windows handle this format natively.

An FTP program. You can use a program like FileZilla, or if you use Firefox web browser, there is an FTP add on available called Fire FTP. If your not sure which client to use have a look at this article.

A text editor. Notepad or Text Edit will both be fine.

A web browser. We like Firefox.

The official bbPress install guide can be found at http://bbpress.org/documentation/installation/

Extracting bbPress

Unzip your downloaded bbPress install to a folder on your desktop.

Uploading

To upload bbPress files to the root directory of your vCluster follow the FTP upload guide.

To upload bbPress files to a sub-domain on your vCluster follow the vHosting guide.

Installing bbPress

Now we’re going to install bbPress using your web browser. Fire it up and navigate to the directory name we just created: bbpress.username.group.vc.catn.com/

This takes you to the page where it checks you want to install bbPress. Click go to step 1 to start.

Now the second box expands and this is where you enter in the database information. You need to check the checkbox next to show advanced settings. Use the settings in your CatN settings page. Click on the save settings button, then click the go to step 2 button.

If you have a wordpress blog, you can intergrate it with bbPress in this step. I don’t so I will just leave the box unchecked.

Step 3 is the site settings stage. Here enter the site name, admin user and email and forum name.

Click save site settings and then click on complete the installation. It will tell you the password for the admin user, and you can click show installation messages if you want to see the details.