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Postgres Plus phpBB Tutorial

This tutorial will take you through the steps required to get phpBB2 installed and working on Postgres Plus.

phpBB2 requires that you have an application stack installed and working on your computer, if any of the following apply to you:

  • What is a Stack?
  • How do I install the EnterpriseDB Stack?
  • I can't remember what ports the Database and Web Server are running on.
  • How do I get my stack started?

Then you should check out these prerequisites.

When you have a stack installed and active and know what ports it is using, installing phpBB2 is straightforward.

The steps that you will go through will be to:

  1. Download and Extract phpBB2 to a web accessible directory on your server (i.e. ..\apache\htdocs).
  2. Create a User and Database to hold your data .
  3. Configure phpBB2.

Step 1. Download and Extract phpBB2.

Download the latest version of phpBB2 from here.

You should extract phpBB2 to the C:\PostgresPlus\8.3\apache\htdocs directory and call it phpBB2 (i.e. ..\htdocs\phpBB2).

Make sure that your Postgres Plus database is up and running because the phpBB2 installer will use it.

Step 2. Create the phpBB2 Database and User.

If you need help setting up new database objects (like Users, Database and Tables), here is a quick cheat sheet.

You should go into the database and set up a new user with Superuser privileges, see below.

 

 

Then you should create a database to hold your data.

 

 

The database user and the database will be used in the installer below.

Step 3. Configure phpBB2.

In your web browser, go to http://localhost:8080/phpBB2/install/install.php .

In the next screen, enter the database name, database user and password.

 

 

When you have entered all your information, press START INSTALL, and you'll see the next screen with a button "Finish Installation".

When you press FINISH INSTALLATION, you see the next screen.

Please note: you are told to remove 2 directories, they are:

C:\PostgresPlus\8.3\apache\htdoc\phpBB2\contrib and

C:\PostgresPlus\8.3\apache\htdoc\phpBB2\install

Please go ahead and do this, otherwise you won't be able to log in.

 

 

After you have deleted these directories, Click on the Log in link and enter your administrator id and password as shown below.

 

 

Click the "Log in" button and you will be logged into phpBB2.