goody1987 Posted January 11, 2008 Share Posted January 11, 2008 Hi all, I am having trouble with actually putting a PHP forum together and working. I am reading the instructions through as best i can and understand what i have to do. This is the problem. This is what i'm doing 1. Download phpBB 3.0.0 from here - http://www.phpbb.com/downloads/ 2. I then downloaded "filezilla 3.0.5" from here - http://filezilla-project.org/ 3. I am then configuring filezilla to upload files straight up to my Personal webpage which is provided by Virgin Broadband. - ftp.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk 4. It then says in the installation that i need to set permissions to the config.php to be writable by all (666 or -rw-rw-rw- within your FTP Client). I am doing that once its been uploaded in filezilla. 5. Change the permissions on the following directories to be writable by all (777 or -rwxrwxrwx within your FTP Client): store/, cache/, files/ and images/avatars/upload/. - I am doing this. 6. Using your web browser visit the location you placed phpBB3 with the addition of install/index.php or pointing directly to install/, e.g. http://www.mydomain.com/phpBB3/install/, http://www.mydomain.com/forum/install/ etc. - Now this is where im stuck. It wont let me do it at all. When ever i try to connect to anything that i have uploaded it wont see it. After 2 days of trying to do it i then uploaded my own .html file and it worked fine. Where am i going wrong? Can anyone confirm to me that php will work with Virgin personal webspace? If anyone could help me on this and the rest of the installation i would be most grateful. Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daukan Posted January 11, 2008 Share Posted January 11, 2008 Does your host allow php scripts to run? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ken2k7 Posted January 11, 2008 Share Posted January 11, 2008 Hi, I'm sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but Virgin Media does NOT support PHP scripts. I am sorry, and you will have to find another host if you want to use your phpBB3 Gold forum. Ken Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goody1987 Posted January 11, 2008 Author Share Posted January 11, 2008 Aaaahhh. Thank you for letting me know that i had been looking at the Virgin site to find that out but i couldnt see it for the life of me. Perhaps you could maybe give me a link to a good place to host to thats fast, easy and cheap. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ken2k7 Posted January 11, 2008 Share Posted January 11, 2008 This topic is no longer PHP-related, so for further questions, please ask elsewhere. But while I'm at this, I suggest Bluehost and Dreamhost if you're willing to pay and ulmb if you're not. Please make sure you checked this solved. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
revraz Posted January 11, 2008 Share Posted January 11, 2008 Check the MISC forum here, there is a sticky with webhosts. Aaaahhh. Thank you for letting me know that i had been looking at the Virgin site to find that out but i couldnt see it for the life of me. Perhaps you could maybe give me a link to a good place to host to thats fast, easy and cheap. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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