Greetings,
So I have bought some webspace and want to put a MyBB forum on it. Problem is, I can't start the installer. According to the install.html document that I have downloaded, I should:
If it helps, I downloaded version 1.2.9 of MyBB. I have the webspace hosted on One.com and my domainname is
http://www.vampirecounts.net.
Quote:1. Unzip the release archive to your computer using an archive utility capable of decompressing the download format you chose (Winzip) ~done
2. Using an FTP client (FlashFXP), upload the entire contents of the 'upload' directory to a visible directory on your web server (for example, forum or forums). ~done with SmartFTP. I put the 'upload' directory in the 'Forum' folder.
3. CHMOD the following files to 666 (ie, make sure that PHP can write to them).
./inc/settings.php
./inc/config.php
./uploads
./uploads/avatars
~done. Although I didn't understand why they put dots in front of the files and folders mentioned here above. Am I right that the first 2 are files and the other 2 are folders?
4. In your browser, visit the URL where you installed your forums, appending /install/ on to the end of it.
If you installed your forums to http://www.yoursite.com/forums/ then you would visit http://www.yoursite.com/forums/install/.
~Here is where it goes wrong. My domain is http://www.vampirecounts.net. Am I right to assume my installer should be on http://www.vampirecounts.net/install ? Because that doesn't work!
Can anyone provide the solution to the problem I have?
And if anybody thinks it's a weird adress, well it's about a hobby called Warhammer
Cheers,
-MV
Yes, but the server says I don't have permission to access the page. So you might want to do some CHmodding.
My server throws a forbidden error whenever I have a folder with no index file inside it because by default directory listing is turned off. It could be something to do with that but if MyBB was uploaded to where you think you uploaded it, it would not cause that error.
A little bit of poking around tells me that at present:
http://www.vampirecounts.net/install <--- doesn't exist
http://www.vampirecounts.net/Forum <--- does exist, but doesn't show an index
http://www.vampirecounts.net/Forum/install <--- doesn't exist
Looks like your server either has some issues displaying index files with a .php extension, or the folders are empty.
MrDoom Wrote:My server throws a forbidden error whenever I have a folder with no index file inside it because by default directory listing is turned off. It could be something to do with that but if MyBB was uploaded to where you think you uploaded it, it would not cause that error.
A little bit of poking around tells me that at present:
http://www.vampirecounts.net/install <--- doesn't exist
http://www.vampirecounts.net/Forum <--- does exist, but doesn't show an index
http://www.vampirecounts.net/Forum/install <--- doesn't exist
Looks like your server either has some issues displaying index files with a .php extension, or the folders are empty.
The problem I get is a 404 one, so basically it says the adresses I put in do not exist.
Quote:Yes, but the server says I don't have permission to access the page. So you might want to do some CHmodding.
So it has to do with CHModding? More specifically, CHModding the files I mentioned in the quote?
You mentioned that you bought some free web space, I'm unsure what you mean. Did you buy web space or acquire some web space for free?
May we have a link to your hosting service?
Master Vampire Wrote:The problem I get is a 404 one, so basically it says the adresses I put in do not exist.
Yes.
MrDoom Wrote:http://www.vampirecounts.net/install
That gives a 404, meaning not found.
MrDoom Wrote:http://www.vampirecounts.net/Forum
That gives a 403, meaning forbidden. This can happen if you have directory listing turned off and does not necessarily mean that you can't access the files within. It would suggest however that there are no files inside this directory.
Looks like you uploaded your files to a "Forum" folder inside of your root "/" directory when you meant to upload them directory to your root "/" directory.
rh1n0 Wrote:You mentioned that you bought some free web space, I'm unsure what you mean. Did you buy web space or acquire some web space for free?
May we have a link to your hosting service?
lol, sorry about that. I bought the webspace, so it's not
free.
Here's the link
One.com Webspace hoster.
Quote:Looks like you uploaded your files to a "Forum" folder inside of your root "/" directory when you meant to upload them directory to your root "/" directory.
So as a total newb to FTP and associated stuff, I can confirm I did this. It did show where I uploaded it an it is in the root "/" directory. Though what should I do now?
Can you confirm whether or not there are files inside either the "Forum" directory or the root "/" directory?
MrDoom Wrote:Can you confirm whether or not there are files inside either the "Forum" directory or the root "/" directory?
Well, the Forum directory is put in the root "/" directory, if that makes any sense. The files are in the Forum directory, though.
If you want a layout like this
http://www.vampirecounts.net/install you would have to have the files which are inside "Forum" inside "/". This is assuming that you want your forum to be located at "/" and not "/Forum".
Also on another note, it's best to use lowercase names for directories so, i.e. "forum" not "Forum" as a Linux server would be case sensitive and most users enter url's in lowercase.