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Hey guys, after uploading all the files out of the folder called upload to a folder on my webserver called forums i tried the next step which was:
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

My page shows up in IE as cannot be displayed. i downloaded the Flashxp program and uploaded all the files again and then noticed that I had missed this step:

CHMOD the following files to 666 (ie, make sure that PHP can write to them).

When i attempted to do this i got the error message

[R] SITE CHMOD 666 /forums/uploads
[R] 550 Could not change perms on /forums/uploads: No such file or directory

Im sure the file is there because im looking at it :p but is there something ive missed?
Sry for the wall of text but ive run outta ideas as to what the problem is.

When you upload your files using FTP, are you uploading them to your public HTTP folder?

They usually look something like:
"htdocs"
"httpdocs"
"public_http"
etc...

Yea i am, so when I log into the area i have the folders, forums, htdocs, logfiles and secure. When i open the forums folder i have 8 more folders and the 34 php files that i got from the downloaded folder called upload.

Edit: Ach lol nvm i didnt put the forums folder IN the htdocs folder just like u said :p its workin now, thx dude

Ok all went good untill i got to the database configuration page when i got this,

Error
There seems to be one or more errors with the database configuration information that you supplied:

Could not connect to the database server at 'localhost' with the supplied username and password. Are you sure the hostname and user details are correct?
Could not select the database 'thedefeat'. Are you sure it exists and the specified username and password have access to it?
Once the above are corrected, continue with the installation.

My settings are:
Database engine - MySql
Database host - localhost
Database username - is the database username given to me by my host Fasthosts.
Database password is what they gave me as well.
Database name is thedefeat (the name i gave the database on the Fasthost website
Table prefix is mybb_

Could it be a problem with fasthosts? Is there another company that you can recomend to me or have i missed something?

That should work, are you sure that database user has been setup with permissions to access that database?

Hmm good point, I have only created a user for the database but i didnt see anything for configuring any access rights. Ive just taken a look on their website but i dont see anything to change user rights. Ive seen some posts on the forum about something called cpanel and how its used to edit database rights, is this what i need to do?