PunBB

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 PunBB install, you may find it useful to copy these details into a text file.

The newest version of PunBB, available to download from http://punbb.informer.com/downloads.php

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 PunBB install guide can be found at http://punbb.informer.com/wiki/punbb13/installation

Extracting PunBB

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

Uploading

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

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

Installing PunBB

Now we’re going to install PunBB using your web browser. Fire it up and navigate to the directory name we just created: punbb.username.group.vc.catn.com/ and add on /admin/install.php e.g. punbb.username.group.vc.catn.com/admin/install.php

This is the page that you enter in all of the configuration. First to configure is the database connection settings.

Scrolling down to part 2, is the administration settings. These are the username, password and email address for the admin account.

Scroll down to step 3. Here you enter in the board settings. The name and description are set up here.

Once all the information is entered in, click on start install. If it installed correctly you will see this page. You can click the link to go to your forum.