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Hi

I am trying to install MyBB 1.6 on a Centos 6 virtual machine. I have install Apache and MySQL-server, and started them. I have unzipped MyBB 1.6 to /var/www/html/ as shown below:

$ ls /var/www/html/forum
admin              images           newthread.php    showteam.php
announcements.php  inc              online.php       showthread.php
archive            index.php        polls.php        stats.php
attachment.php     install          portal.php       syndication.php
cache              jscripts         printthread.php  task.php
calendar.php       managegroup.php  private.php      uploads
captcha.php        memberlist.php   ratethread.php   usercp2.php
css.php            member.php       report.php       usercp.php
editpost.php       misc.php         reputation.php   warnings.php
forumdisplay.php   modcp.php        rss.php          xmlhttp.php
global.php         moderation.php   search.php
htaccess.txt       newreply.php     sendthread.php
[adminuser@localhost ~]$ ls /var/www/html/forum/install
images  index.php  resources  stylesheet.css  upgrade.php

My network address is:

$ ifconfig eth1 | grep inet | awk '{ print $2 }'
addr:10.0.2.15

But when I access:

http://10.0.2.15/forum/install

I see:

"Forbidden

You don't have permission to access /forum/install on this server."

Any idea what I am doing wrong please?

David

Some things to check:
Make sure your folders are chmodded to either 755 or 777 depending on your server.
Directory Indexes may be disabled. To fix this add or create a .htaccess file in your forum directory:

DirectoryIndex index.php

Hi

Thanks for the suggestions but I still have the problem.  I have:

$ ls -al
total 148
drwxrwxrwx.  4 root vboxsf  4096 Feb 19 16:15 .
drwxrwxrwx. 10 root vboxsf  4096 Nov 20 10:57 ..
-rwxrwxrwx.  1 root root      25 Feb 19 16:15 .htaccess
drwxrwxrwx.  2 root vboxsf  4096 Nov 20 10:57 images
-rwxrwxrwx.  1 root vboxsf 84450 Apr 25  2014 index.php
drwxrwxrwx.  2 root vboxsf  4096 Nov 20 10:57 resources
-rwxrwxrwx.  1 root vboxsf  5098 Sep  5  2013 stylesheet.css
-rwxrwxrwx.  1 root vboxsf 33089 Jun 27  2014 upgrade.php

but I still see:

http://192.168.56.101/forum/install/

Forbidden

You don't have permission to access /forum/install/ on this server.
Apache/2.2.15 (CentOS) Server at 192.168.56.101 Port 80

Any other suggestions please?

I have made some progress with this.  I had copied the MyBB files to the wrong location on my server. 

I will mark this Solved.