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My forum guy ran into some trouble while trying to install some forums onto my site, he's now visiting some family and I'm not able to get ahold of him.

I went on ahead without him, running full risk of messing up my site fully(for these forums he agreed to set them up so long as I stay out from under his feet), but alas, I emerged the victor and fixed the troubles he ran into.

Now, with my limited knowledge of most of these sort of things, it should be understoof that having gotten as far as I have is nothing short of a miracle.

So, I've made it to the Instalation screen of phpBB 2. HURRAH!

Now, I've been confounded by the dastardly cynical questions they ask me to fill out.

I'd hate to have errors running about my boards, so I need help answering some of these oh so troublesome riddles.

Database Configuration
Database Server Hostname / DSN: localhost
Your Database Name:
Database Username:
Database Password:
Prefix for tables in database: phpbb_

Now is this reffering to my MySQL information, and if so, how do I find out what the database name is?

Sorry about whatever spelling errors my be in my post, I'm always rushing myself.

Database configuration: not sure, are there options?

SQL server host: localhost is probably fine.

prefix: this is of no importance. The default will be fine.

User/Database/Password: I have not set up PHPBB before, but I suspect you will have to set the user name and database up yourself, then enter the values here. Do you have Cpanel installed on your account? (ie. does youdomain.com:2082 go anywhere?)

At 6/25/05 01:27 AM, BitMonkey wrote: User/Database/Password: I have not set up PHPBB before, but I suspect you will have to set the user name and database up yourself, then enter the values here.

If it is SQL, then I already have a username and password, I just don't know what the Database Name would be.

If it's your host or you can use any amount of databases, create one just for phpbb it's easier to find the rable you need when it isn't clutred.
If you only have one database, then that's then one you have to use.
I realy recomendend that you get a separate databaseuser just for phpbb, you don't want everything to be nuked when the next exploit is relesed.

I don't even know what you just said, but I wung it last night because I was too tired to wait any longer for help.

Everything turned out fine, it seems to be working just fine, so now I'm working on custumizing the look. That's actually something I'll be able to do without help.

At 6/25/05 01:16 AM, HollywoodHero wrote: Database Configuration
Database Server Hostname / DSN: localhost
Your Database Name:
Database Username:
Database Password:
Prefix for tables in database: phpbb_


Now is this reffering to my MySQL information, and if so, how do I find out what the database name is?

database name is the name of the database that you created for the foru, so yes, it refers to SQL info. (I've had to do it this way before).