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I don't have a web server yet, so on a member's suggestion I downloaded WAMP. Now I need to upload MyBB to WAMP. How do I go about doing this? Any help will be much appreciated. Thanks

With WAMP start just click the little icon in the bottom left and select "www directory" put the mybb files in there .

Sorry to sound so dense about this, but I'm not a real computer geek. How do I even find "WAMP Start"? It's running in the background and double-clicking on the WAMP icon doesn't do anything.

Umm I haven't used WAMP in a long time but should just be able to start it from the little menu that shows up when you click on it's icon in the bottom left(maybe right click).

I found the WAMP directory in Windows Explorer, along with a folder, WWW. I dragged the "Upload" folder from MyBB into the "WWW" folder in WAMP. Did I do the right thing? If so, where do I go from here as far as starting to design my forum page?

Well if you actually dragged the upload folder a long instead of just the files in it. You would start by going to http://localhost/upload/install/install.php (This is of course if you have Apache up and running and everything).

You will also need a database so if you don't have one of those you'll need to make one through phpmyadmin .

Hi,

If you go to Start > All Programs > Find "Wamp" > Click "start WampServer", its icon should
Appear at the buttom right in the Windows Taskbar:



Right click that and select "www directory" from the menu:

Thanks for your help, Chris and NetSage. I found "www Directory" like you said, Chris, and when I opened it, it contains the "Upload" folder and an "index.php" file. If you can bear with me, what do I do next? Or is there a "MyBB for Dummies" article I can read that will tell me? As I said, I am the furthest thing from MyBB literate as you'll ever find. Thanks again.

Hi,

You will need to create a database for your forum, to-do so you will use phpMyAdmin. Please follow the steps below:

On the menu:


You will see "phpMyAdmin" click on that and it will open your browser with phpMyAdmin, you will see "create new database" if you enter a name there (example: mybb) and click "create" that will create the database needed for MyBB to install.

Next, you will need to actually install MyBB:

If you go to in your browser:

http://localhost/Upload/install

That will bring up the install wizard, simply follow that and you should be able to install MyBB.

Let me know if you have any problems,
Chris.

Chris:

Thanks for your patience. I did as you suggested, created a database, then put http://localhost/upload/install into the browser, but got a message saying the page could not be found. Any idea what I'm doing wrong?

Thanks again.