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Hi,

I am trying to get MyBB running on my Windows 8 machine before pushing it online to the Linux host.

I have installed the following :
PHP 5.3.27
MySQL 5.6

The MyBB installation is done where I gave the real www.board.mysite.com info(instead of localhost). The installation is successfull(it says) but when browsing the site no css och graphic is used? I can see that my user i logged in. If I press the login button I however get

No input file specified and this is becouse it is looking only for the files instead in the localhost?

My goal is to first get it running localy and then put it online? How should this be done?

./inc/settings.php file should have correct settings for board url & cookies (like below)

$settings['bburl'] = "http://localhost/mybb";

$settings['cookiedomain'] = "";
$settings['cookiepath'] = "/mybb/";

after having the correct settings in the settings.php file, put them again at general configuration settings of the admin panel
admin panel >> configuration >> settings >> General Configuration -->
Board URL <-- eg. http://localhost/mybb
Cookie Path <-- eg. /mybb/

(2013-09-09, 10:15 AM).m. Wrote: [ -> ]./inc/settings.php file should have correct settings for board url & cookies (like below)

$settings['bburl'] = "http://localhost/mybb";

$settings['cookiedomain'] = "";
$settings['cookiepath'] = "/mybb/";

after having the correct settings in the settings.php file, put them again at general configuration settings of the admin panel
admin panel >> configuration >> settings >> General Configuration -->
Board URL <-- eg. http://localhost/mybb
Cookie Path <-- eg. /mybb/

Thanks, that solved the problem. BUT the file states that no manual change should be done to the file? The format of the file also suggests that this is not for manual use?

And what happens when I move the site online, will I have to change this again then?

^ in general, manual modification is not done in settings.php file as it is a dynamic file (modified by
the database). however we have to edit it when we need to fix something (eg. login problems) and
immediately we change the values in the database through admin panel

when you use backup from the localhost to live forum you have to modify ./inc/config.php file for the
database settings and ./inc/settings.php file for the board url & cookie settings and also put the correct
settings through the admin panel