This is my pieced together how to on installing phpBB
<http://www.phpBB.org>
 
phpBB is a high powered, fully scalable, and highly customizable forums package. phpBB has a user-friendly interface, simply and straight-forward administration panel, and helpfull FAQ. All this and being backended by the blazeingly fast MySQL database server makes phpBB the ideal community solution for all web sites.

STEP 1

If you are going to want to put phpBB under your primary/html directory do the following, otherwise go onto the next step.

mkdir -p /etc/e-smith/templates-Custom/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf

     
Now edit 90e-smithAccess10primary to add a line after line 12:

<Directory /home/e-smith/files/primary/html>
                AddType application/x-httpd-php .php .php3
                Options Indexes Includes
        [...]

STEP 2
download phpBB-1.4.0.tar.gz 

from http://www.phpBB.com/download/phpBB-1.4.0.tar.gz  I put it in my /primary/html directory  then
untar phpBB-1.4.0.tar.gz
tar xvf  phpBB-1.4.0.tar
this will put phpBB under primary/html/phpBB

STEP 3
Type mysqladmin create phpBB  , this can be from any directory.

STEP 4
You will need the mysql password for the username "root"

/home/e-smith/files/primary/html/phpBB/chmod a+w config.php

STEP 5
Go to
<http://www.yoursite.com/phpBB/install.php>
fill in the first several screens, when it asks you to login
 run chmod 644 config.php
then you will be able to login to the admin interface.

Im having a blast with this I hope you will too.

Written By Jason Hammond, with Info from e-smith forums, and the phpBB readme file.  Basically I cant take credit for any of this.

Jason Hammond
Information Systems

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