forums for website

Hi,
I want to setup forums for my website. I have got few software from sourceforge.net.
Can anybody guide me with the procedure of how to setup forums?

And it would be of more help if someone can tell me what software is reliable.


Regards,
Sailu

I am pretty sure that all the forums you download will include a readme file where you can read what steps are to be taken to implement your forum.

A simple way to see which forum which is the most popular would be to look how popular that project is at sourceforge.

/J

I have got many forum softwares and what are called as README files too.
But its not enough for me to set up forums. Any further information will be helpful

I suggest phpBB, it's easy to install and easy configurable. Just keep it updated

http://www.phpbb.com

My forum:

http://www.nukey.nl/forum

The softwares homepage usually has documentation on how to install. You can also read the installation instructions in the tarballs you downoad.

I suggest phpBB too. I use in my team website too

http://www.zagararugby.it/phpBB2

However someone use Snitz Forum

Good Luck

One more, but never used it.

http://www.vbulletin.com/ (non-commercial; vBulletin)
http://www.vbulletin.com/ (non-commercial; vBulletin)
Sheng-Chieh

The phpBB is giving an error that it cannot create table. Permission denied php_auth_access.

The error messages is below:

This was the error that occured.



Critical error:
Could not connect to the database



And the other error was that sailaja@192.168.24.6 cannot craete table php_auth_access.
here sailaja is the username of the mysql database, and sailaja's system number is 192.168.24.6.

Please help.

Exactly this is the error I am getting.



An error occurred trying to update the database
create command denied to user: 'sailaja@192.168.24.6' for table 'phpbb_auth_access'

What might be the probelm.
please help.


sailu

is mysql installed on the server that your trying to put phpbb onto

do you have access to that database, if so make a new database then run the phpbb install again and tell it the name of the database to use

"do you have access to that database, if so make a new database then run the phpbb install again and tell it the name of the database to use"



I did not get u .
Can u be more clear????


sailu

Did you add that user to your mysql users? Mysql has it's own user database, it does not use the linux userdb.

look the word "access" up in an english dictionary

I am trying to install the phpBB forums and at the final step i am getting the folllowing error.



**************************************************************************************************** ******************************

Your config file is un-writeable at present. A copy of the config file will be downloaded to your computer when you click the button below. You should upload this file to the same directory as phpBB 2. Once this is done you should log in using the administrator name and password you provided on the previous form and visit the admin control center (a link will appear at the bottom of each screen once logged in) to check the general configuration. Thank you for choosing phpBB 2.


Since FTP extensions are enabled in this version of PHP you may also be given the option of first trying to automatically FTP the config file into place.
**************************************************************************************************** *******************************

Before starting the installation, I have given all the permissions to config.php.
I dont know why this problem is persisting. Its not able to write.

I think this should be told : I am installing phpBB on Linux.


Sailu

Just upload the downloaded file to your phpbb directory.