Quick and easy steps to get you up and running

These steps are by no means exhaustive or as detailed as possible.

1. Unzip the release archive to your computer using an archive utility capable of decompressing the download format you chose (7zip)

2. Using an FTP client (Filezilla), upload the entire contents of the 'upload' directory to a visible directory on your web server (for example, forum or forums).

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

./inc/settings.php
./uploads
./uploads/avatars
./cache
./cache/themes

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/.

5. Please follow the installation wizard through, making sure you have the following details handy:

* Database Details: These include your MySQL username, password, database name and the hostname or ip address of your MySQL server. Generally your web host should be able to supply you with these.

* Forum Details: This includes the name of your forums, the URL to your forums directory, the name of your website, and the URL to your website.

* Administrator Information: During the installation process you will be required to create your initial administrator account. You will need to know which username, password, and email address you intend to use for this account

6. After the installation has completed, please delete the 'install' directory from server.

Note: for extra security you can CHMOD config.php back to 755, but make sure you leave settings.php writable.

7. You can now login to the Administration Control Panel by appending /admin/ on to the URL of your forums

Congratulations, you should now have an installed and working copy of LiteBulletin on your web server.

wouldn't 777 be better?

(11.01.2009, 01:48)indigored wrote:  wouldn't 777 be better?

Depends on your server configuration

thanks for the information!

omg, thanks for this!

Thank You Very Much Bro

(05.01.2009, 20:25)vintagedaddyo wrote:  Quick and easy steps to get you up and running

These steps are by no means exhaustive or as detailed as possible.

1. Unzip the release archive to your computer using an archive utility capable of decompressing the download format you chose (7zip)

2. Using an FTP client (Filezilla), upload the entire contents of the 'upload' directory to a visible directory on your web server (for example, forum or forums).

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

./inc/settings.php
./uploads
./uploads/avatars
./cache
./cache/themes

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/.

5. Please follow the installation wizard through, making sure you have the following details handy:

* Database Details: These include your MySQL username, password, database name and the hostname or ip address of your MySQL server. Generally your web host should be able to supply you with these.

* Forum Details: This includes the name of your forums, the URL to your forums directory, the name of your website, and the URL to your website.

* Administrator Information: During the installation process you will be required to create your initial administrator account. You will need to know which username, password, and email address you intend to use for this account

6. After the installation has completed, please delete the 'install' directory from server.

Note: for extra security you can CHMOD config.php back to 755, but make sure you leave settings.php writable.

7. You can now login to the Administration Control Panel by appending /admin/ on to the URL of your forums

Congratulations, you should now have an installed and working copy of LiteBulletin on your web server.

Good but sometimes you change these ones to 777 not 666.


./uploads
./uploads/avatars
./cache
./cache/themes

Wow man, thanks, this helped alot. Even though the installation was easy, I used your help on the Mysql things.

it says that some of my files are still unreadable after i chmod the files stated in the tutorial. im a noob. please help me.

if it was one of these files

./uploads
./uploads/avatars
./cache
./cache/themes

chmod them to 777